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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:44:34 GMT


In article <1k1cm7INNt87@pollux.usc.edu>, brao@pollux.usc.edu (Bapa Rao) writes:
>
> Cuthbert Banks has a fiancee who is addicted to organizing teas for
> visiting Russian novelists (in whose books nothing happens till page
> 500 when the mujhik decides to commit suicide).

Isn't this the Russian novelist who thinks "Tolstoy good, P.G. Wodehouse not
bad?"  One of my favs...if it's not too much bother, could you please quote
that bit from the story?  I'd love to see it again, including "I spit me of
<some author or the other>."

BTW, this has to be PGW's only self-reference in his stories, right?

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>

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From: mefoster@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Mary Ellen Foster)
Subject: My ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE Wodehouse story
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:23:22 GMT

Has anyone else out there read "Honeysuckle Cottage"? It is the story
where a young mystery author moves into the cottage formerly occupied
by his aunt (a writer of syrupy romance novels) and begins living the 
plot of one of her novels? I think it was a Mr. Mulliner story.
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From: tprasad@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Trivikram Prasad)
Subject: Psmith
Organization: Arizona State University, Tempe AZ USA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:51:32 GMT


The reason why the Psmith books are generally more popular is that PGW
didnt  write many of them. There are far too many Bertie/Jeeves books
and Psmith comes as a refreshing change to these. Psmith is indeed a 
unique character, and theres usually one of his type in almost all
Wodehouse books.

Does anyone know how many books of PGW there are in all?


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From: ranarayanan@apollo.davidson.edu
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Theater on PBS
Organization: Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 04:07:25 GMT
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>: In a similar vein, anyone remember the context of "the Major is a miner and the
>: minor is a Major?"  I seem to remember it's either Galahad or Fred, Lord
>: Ickenham, trying to put a fast one over somebody...one of the classics.
>						- Neil Bernstein
>						Struggling Classics Major

	I think that was Uncle Fred trying to pull the wool over the
eyes of a policeman (the same policeman who arrested him and nephew
Pongo at that "infamous day at the dog races") in Uncle Dynamite ..

Ranjit

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From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
Subject: Astounding* observations on this newsgroup:
Originator: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu
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(* To me, at least.)

1.  The INCREDIBLE amount of traffic it has generated in a very short
    period of time;

2.  The fact that such a high fraction of the readership, or at least 
    the "postership," seems to be of East Indian origin -- though this 
    makes sense, on reflection;

3.  The fact that many readers seem to be able to respond to queries by
    giving the whole plot of some story or novel.  I forget the whole plot
    within ten minutes of finishing the damn thing, and when I pick up a
    new one it usually doesn't dawn on me that I've read it before until
    I'm about three quarters of the way into it.

-P.
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From: sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar)
Subject: Re: More Quotes
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:43:10 GMT

In article <1k6f4pINNpkc@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring) writes:
>
>BTW, who of you saw the one and only Wodehouse movie "A Damsel In Distress"
>starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, and George Burns?

I did, and wouldn't recommend that you sink down into your couch
and enjoy the pleasure of _not_ seeing it :-)

Seriously, it is only after seeing such movies that one fully realises
PGW stories are bland without the spice of his words. As an "East Indian,"
I ought to know!

Sachin
From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Wodehouse translation
Date: 27 Jan 1993 16:48:11 GMT
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In article <C1H05D.6J3@unix.amherst.edu>, nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein) writes:
>First, a question: does anyone know of any Wodehouse translations?  The task
>seems impossible to me.

There are several good translations into German, namely those that
appeared at dtv (Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, German Paperback Editors).
They are mostly Jeeves & Wooster or Blandings Castle, but there is a Ukridge
too, as well as "Laughing Gas".

Diogenes Verlag has two volumes of short stories from "The Man Upstairs"
and "The Man With Two Left Feet".

Other editors tend to use too silly titles, specially for those who
wouldn't recognize a good book if it hit them on the head, except it is
clearly marked as such in the title and everywhere else.  You know, those
blighters who need artificial laughter to tell them what's funny in a TV show.

It has to hurt any righteous fellow when he reads "Leave It To Psmith" marked
as "Seine Lordschaft in Noeten" ("His Lordship In Trouble"), especially if in
the blurb on the back two of the main characters are described as "Lord
Blandings" and "Lady Charlotte" (Constance).  Jeeves is normally described
as a "butler", and Bertie occasionally ascends to peerage.

Then there is a Wodehouse book in a certain bilingual series, containing
three stories ("Jeeves Takes Charge", "Sticky Wicket At Blandings", and
"Jeeves Makes An Omelette") in the original version and the translation.
The translator added an introduction where he describes his difficulties,
using as examples the phrase "sticky wicket" and Bertie's "dewhat?" to some
other person's "demur", among others.

--
thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
Philosophy is the art of drawing conclusions from definitions that have been
chosen so that one can draw the conclusions one would like to get.
It immediately follows that philosophy is silly.
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From: lrellick@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Lorraine M Rellick)
Subject: pbs series
Organization: The Ohio State University
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:07:48 GMT

You forgot SPODE - I think this guy does the best job of all representing
his character - I keep waiting to see cheesewright (have I remembered it
right?) - L.R.
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From: johnc@leland.Stanford.EDU ( Celestian)
Subject: Re: Bertie different in 2nd Mast.Th. series?
Keywords: jeeves wooster bertie 
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 08:15:27 GMT


Excuse this non-reply, but.... Is there another Wodehouse Masterpiece 
Theatre to come? When? What broadcast station?

Another Wodehouse Fan,

John
From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Theater on PBS
Keywords: Birmingham, Broadcast
Date: 25 Jan 93 00:21:00 GMT
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis


In article <Jan24.191908.27594@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
> 
> You mean Captain Biggar, who habitually looks rhinoceri in their eye, while
> strolling through their backyard as it were, and makes them wilt.

If you actually mean Capt. Cuthbert Gervase Brabazon-Biggar, then you probably
know the answer to this:
	Who's bigger?  Mister Biggar or Master Biggar?

(answer after the form-feed -- hope the dashed thing works...)



Master Biggar, because he's a little Biggar.

:-)

In a similar vein, anyone remember the context of "the Major is a miner and the
minor is a Major?"  I seem to remember it's either Galahad or Fred, Lord
Ickenham, trying to put a fast one over somebody...one of the classics.

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
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From: balaji@nimbus.yorku.ca (Balaji)
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
Organization: York University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:29:25 GMT

In article <Jan22.050258.32415@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
|> 
|> (More trivia : (easy) - Bertie's middle name? And how did he get it?           
|> Also, Jeeves' first name, anyone? )

Wilberforce and Reginald.

Here's my fav. PGW trivia question: in which year did Aunt Dahlia and
Uncle Tom get married?

Balaji
From: brao@pollux.usc.edu (Bapa Rao)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: The Junior Ganymede
Date: 27 Jan 1993 13:45:55 -0800
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In article <C1IzyM.GLJ@rice.edu> udaya@portia.rice.edu (Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626) writes:

	Jeeves is known to belong to 'The Junior Ganymede'
	club. Does anyone happen to know the reason for that name?
	Is "Ganymede" some classical allusion- it would not
	be surprising, considering the other classical 
	allusions in PGW's work? 


Ganymede is the cup-bearer (butler?) to the greek
Gods on Mt. Olympus. 
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From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
Subject: Re: Older Wodehouse for Television
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:59:42 GMT

In article <3196@tymix.Tymnet.COM> filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM writes:
>
>And, btw, what do you _call_ Wodehouse fans?  Is there a term?  Any suggestions?

Drones of course.

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From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
Organization: Dept. of Chem, Columbia U, New York
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:29:43 GMT
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In article <C19nCy.MAJ@news.iastate.edu> pholland@iastate.edu (Paul J Hollander) writes:

>Wasn't there a 19th or early 20th century British prime minister or foreign 
>secretary named Wilberforce?

Bishop Wilberforce was a late 19th century church figure who is especially
remembered for his attacks on Charles Darwin.  See Darwin's wonderful
autobiography, available from Dover books, for some contemporary 
observations.

	-P.
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From: krishnam@math.vt.edu (Ravi Krishnamurthy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
Date: 28 Jan 93 12:57:53 GMT
	<Jan26.022335.74581@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> <C1Gr6r.GJ4@news.iastate.edu>
Organization: Department of Mathematics, Virginia Tech, VA 24061
In-reply-to: sachin@iastate.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 13:37:38 GMT


   >
   >                 Whatever Job You Have To Offer
   >            (Provided It Has Nothing To Do With Fish)
   >
   >                  LEAVE  IT  TO  PSMITH !
   >
   >            Address Applications to `R. Psmith, Box 365'
   >
   >                  LEAVE  IT  TO  PSMITH !

   Masterly, indeed!

   If you have access to this book, could you post the part where
   Psmith lands up at Paddington(?) to meet Freddie, with a pink
   chrysanthemum in his lapel?

   Sachin

I think the he meets Freddie in the lobby of a hotel. He meets
Freddie on the train by accident as Ralston Mctodd.


Ravi 
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From: strange@cats.ucsc.edu (Joseph Russack)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Bertie's parentage?
Date: 23 Jan 1993 20:54:13 GMT
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  I read an interesting article in the New York Times about five months ago, maybe less. The
author was trying to figure out who Bertie's parents were. He has some interesting guesses:


  His mother must have been some kind of high-soceity person. Perhaps even royalty. She took a
fancy to a commener, and had a child by him. She is either dead or pretending she never had 
a child. She set Bertie up with a substantial wad, and left him with an aunt.

  The father? Jeeves, of course. Omni-present, omnicient, and certanily the guiding responsibility
of Bertie's life...

  Well, it's different, anyhow. I'm not sure I buy it, but it's an interesting idea.

strange@cats.ucsc.edu
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From: cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows)
Subject: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
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Can't say the EXACT quotation, but this is what it was, more or less.
Bertie and Jeeves had just decided the time was right to take a trip
by motorcar (to avoid the Wrath of Aunt Agatha), and Bertie said,
"As Shakespeare once said, 'Exit state left, pursued by a large bear.'"
Jeeves said something to the effect of "Shakespeare said that?"
Bertie said something like, "Yes, I'm sure I've read it in one of
his plays."


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From: rlharrin@unix.amherst.edu (Rich Harrington)
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Organization: Amherst College
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:01:05 GMT

Tom Kreitzberg (tak@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov) wrote:
: In article <C1A3KJ.EH7@news.iastate.edu> sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar) writes:
: 
: > 2. Is there anyone around who agrees that Blandings and Psmith and
: > many of PGW's other works are far better than the Bertie Wooster stories?
:  
: The first several books I read were set at Blandings, and I've always liked
: Lord Emsworth and Gally. The only Psmith I've read is _Leave it to Psmith_,
: which I've long thought should be made into a movie (by Merchant-Ivory, 
: perhaps?).
: 
: The Jeeves and Wooster stories, taken together, are probably more
: cohesive and "important," but it's all a matter of taste. Me, I like
: everything.
: 
: 	Tom
: 
   I'd agree that, for myself, the Blandings stories are probably the 
funniest.  I'm thinking particularly of _The Crime Wave at Blandings_, and
the one that preceeded it, where Lord Emsworth's personal secretary (what
the *heck* was his name??) stood out in the garden throwing flower pots.  
That isn't to say that I don't enjoy any of the others.  The Drones Club 
stories are probably just as good.  The Jeeves stories, though, I never really
got into.  It's interesting that they are the most famous ones.  I guess a lot 
of folks do like 'em.

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From: nsridhar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Natarajan Sridhar)
Subject: Re: Gussy Finknottle
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:36:54 GMT

In article <C17IA0.Ly6@world.std.com> kcl@world.std.com (Katherine C Long) writes:
[stuff deleted]
>
>   Anyhow, aside from the main characters, the casting of
>Gussy the Newt Fancier and Madeline Basset, who believes
>that every time a baby coughs a wee fairy is born, is grand!
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Not to split straws or anything, but isn't it
"Every time a wee fairy blows its nose, a baby is born" ?

Any one remember the other Bassetisms ?

"The sunset reminds me of the blessed Damozel (?) leaning from the golden bars
of heaven"

>The Drones' Club is just how I pictured it - I hope we get
>to see the Ganymede Club where Jeeves hangs out!

BTW, which club do Claude and Eustace hang out in ?

>
>Katherine Long
>kcl@world.std.com
>
>  8-)
>   XXXXxxxx=
>

**sridhar**
From: ctday@randolf.lbl.gov (Christopher T. Day)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Duke of Dunstable and others
Date: 26 Jan 1993 22:09:27 GMT
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In article <1993Jan25.224401.574@cas.org>, rxr00@cas.org () writes:
|> 
|>         Hi Wodehousemates:
|>         
|>         I notice that in all the past discussions my "favorite " characters 
|>         have not been mentioned. I allude to the Duke of Dunstable and 
|>         Percy Pilbeam.
|>         
|>         Dunstable has the habit of imposing himself on Lord
Emsworth's hospitality.
|>         He is frequently an unwelcome  guest at Blandings and usually
ends up turning
|>         the place upside down. Lady Constance (am I right??) looks
favorably on him
|>         so he gets away with his antics.
|>         
|>         Percy Pilbeam, with his marcelled hair, brilliantine and all,
is a despicable
|>         character who again weasels his way into households and tries
to get his hands 
|>         on some valuable or other. He ultimately is foiled, but until
then it is laugh
|>         after laugh.
|>         
|>         It is some time since I read any book with Pilbeam in it.
Does anybody remember
|>         any titles?
|>         
|>         Ram Ravi
|>         

Percy Pilbeam is in, at least, "Summer Lightning" and "Heavy Weather".
In both cases, Lord Emsworth believes Percy is at Blandings to protect
the Empress, but he's actually there to steal Galahad's book. These two
novels are continuous, in Wodehousian time anyway, so it's really only
one stay at Blandings.

CTDay
From: ptyaxel@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Seymour Axelrod)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Golf?  Spats?
Date: 23 Jan 93 02:53:00 GMT
Organization: SUNY at Buffalo
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Why has no one mentioned the golf stories?  or the Young Men in Spats?  Surely 
the airheads there are as inspired creations as Jeeves and Wooster, or Mr 
Mulliner's relations, or Psmith.  (Thanks to Bapa Rao for reminding me of the 
greatest first line in English verse:  "Across the pale parabola of joy ..." 
[Ralston McTodd]).

Is it my imagination, or is the Indian subcontinent in fact way ahead of the 
rest of the world in appreciation of Wodehouse?

--Axel

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From: rao@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Govindaraju Rao)
Subject: Re: Older Wodehouse for Television
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:26:19 GMT

>
> And, btw, what do you _call_ Wodehouse fans?  Is there a term?
> Any suggestions?

D. Sivakumar writes:

>>>	"Eggs, beans and crumpets", of course!

>>> D.Sivakumar,			
sivak-d@acsu.buffalo.edu

   I like the idea of using something other than PGW's name to
   describe his fans. Given PGW's tendency to complicate the
   most mundane situation, I am sure he (PGW) would approve :-).
  
   I am thinking of course on the lines of the Baker Street 
   Irregulars, a fan group of Sherlock Holmes, who have named
   themselves after "dramatis personae" rather than after the
   author. 

   I wish I could suggest something. But I basically endorse
   the idea of naming ourselves after something typically 
   reminescent of Bertie, Jeeves et al rather than PGW. 
 
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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Date: 25 Jan 93 00:16:42 GMT
Organization: University of Minnesota

In <Jan24.195237.27606@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:


>"Psmith. I remember what happened there. I called Baxter in Chapter 1 Rupert
>Baxter [Leave it to Psmith] and when I got to that scene where Psmith tells Eve
>his name I felt it was a question of either going right back through the book
>and changing Baxter's name - which I didn't want to do, as Rupert Baxter seemed
>so right - or assuming that nobody would remember 'Mike' [the earlier book in
>which Psmith makes his debut] and giving Psmith another name. I think Rupert
>Eustace Ronald Psmith would be okay!" 

	Maybe my memory cells have been leaking, but wasn't 'Mike' the
name of Psmith's roommate in "Enter Psmith"?? The star batsman for their
school team?

>-kannan

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From: shenai@willis.cis.uab.edu (Aravind K. Shenai)
Subject: Hello hello
Organization: Comp. Science Dept, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:22:58 GMT

Finally the newsgroup I have been waiting for. After coming to USA 
(I am from India) I have been always looking out for PGW books and fans.
Buying a PGW here is much tougher than back home. Unfortunately, our
school lib. is also poorly stocked. I have bought most of my books through
mail orders. I'd like to know which the best source for Wodehouse books 
in USA is. 
In Bombay, about 4 years ago I struck it rich when i acquired 15 Wodehouses
for Rs. 15 (50 cents) each! 

My thanks to everyone involved in getting this group up on the nw!! 

-Aravind

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From: ss8f@csissun5.ee.Virginia.EDU (Sanjay Srinivasan)
Subject: Re: Viva Wodehouse
Reply-To: ss8f@csissun5.ee.Virginia.EDU (Sanjay Srinivasan)
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 13:53:21 GMT

	How about the line in which:

		someone is asked about someone else's WHEREABOUTS and
		the reply is:

			They've gone to the wash!!!

	Absolutely fantastic!!

	Sanjay
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