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From: sg@teer1.acpub.duke.edu (SHOUVIK GANGOPADHYAY)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Date: 24 Jan 93 20:13:41 GMT

In article <C1A3KJ.EH7@news.iastate.edu>, sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar) wri|> In article <1993Jan22.195524.18393@Shiva.COM> phil@Shiva.COM (Phil Budne) writes:
 
|> 
|> Also:
|> 1. Here's another question:
|> Psmith's first name = ?
|> (There are two names that have been used, I think. Unfortunately,
|> I only remember one, and think I know the other)
|> 
|> 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?
|> (Probably not!)
|> 
|> Sachin
 
 Psmith's full name is the Hon. Ronald Eustace Psmith. 

 I am also of the opinion that the Psmith stories and the Blandings series had a greater
punch to them,not that the Wooster stories, or the Mulliner ones lacked much
far behind.  My favourite Wodehouse is probably the one where Psmith goes
to Blandings as Lord Emsworth's secretary, and finally settles down. It was so
long ago that I don't recall the exact title , something like " Psmith at
Blandings "

Skin off your nose(s)

-(p)shouvik 8-)
From: kring@pamuk.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: The Junior Ganymede
Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:32:18 GMT
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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? 
>
>Any ideas?

Ganymede was a Trojan prince.  Surely you know that Zeus had affairs with
a lot of females - Ganymede was his only male lover mentioned in Greek mythology.

Zeus got him a job at the Olymp: he had to serve nectar and ambrosia.
As you see, "Junior Ganymede" is a very good name for Jeeves' club.

BTW, the moons of Jupiter were named after Zeus' or Jupiter's loved ones, and
Ganymede is among them; the constellation of Aquarius is Ganymede in the
process of serving. (water?)

--
thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
  What E. von Daeniken, I. Velikovsky and several others could have said but to
  my knowledge didn't:
"I don't know much about science, but I know what I like!"
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From: mikes@Ingres.COM (Mike Schilling)
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Date: 25 Jan 93 17:40:16 GMT

From article <karnik.727921002@exa>, by karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik):
> 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: dwalton1@vyasa.helios.nd.edu (david walton)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Organization: OUC, University of Notre Dame
Distribution: alt
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:59:16 GMT

In article <C19wvB.7AH@news2.cis.umn.edu> rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
>
>I think Laurie plays Bertie perfectly, but while Fry plays Jeeves reasonably
>well, don't you think he looks a bit too young?  I always pictured Bertie as
>being in his mid- to late-twenties, with Jeeves at least 10 years older.

Precisely my criticism of Jeeves.  While still young enough to enjoy a
sporting night-about-town, Jeeves should be old enough to have a
rather paternal affection for Bertie--not just by virtue of J's
superior intellect, but of his age.  Laurie is also too free with his
facial expressions: Jeeves shows sanction by twitching his lip or
raising his eyebrow almost imperceptibly; Laurie is far more
exagerrated.

Triva question:  does anybody remember the story (I believe there's
only one) where Jeeves screams?  Anybody remember the reason?

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

David Walton


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From: ojtv@zombie.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:10:22 GMT

Alok Mathur (amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu) wrote:
: 
: I read a lot of PGWs in India. I guess they would be popular in UK and probably
: the US. Where else does Wodehouse attract people (I saw a posting from Sweden) ?
: Alok.
: --
: ALOK MATHUR

He does in Finland, too.

Olli
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From: kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian)
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 19:52:37 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University


In article <C1A3KJ.EH7@news.iastate.edu>, 
sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar) writes:

|> Also:
|> 1. Here's another question:
|> Psmith's first name = ?
|> (There are two names that have been used, I think. Unfortunately,
|> I only remember one, and think I know the other)

Psmith Rupert Eustace Ronald. This, curiously, was a mix-up which was hoped
would not be discovered. In Wodehouse's own words, 

"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!" 
 
|> 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?
|> (Probably not!)

Matter of taste, really. One man's food often turns out to be another man's
broccoli.

-kannan
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From: csshah@sunvis2.vislab.olemiss.edu (Viren R. Shah)
Subject: Re: OK, Let's Vote.
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:38:45 GMT

In <C1FLu3.Luw@unix.amherst.edu> nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein) writes:
[lotsa stuff deleted]
>: 
>: Feel free to add.  Govindaraju Rao suggested names that do not play on the
>: name Wodehouse.  I'm in favor; I just can't think of any.  It's hard when
>: he's done so much.

i second the motion of not having names with "wodehouse" or any
variation thereof in them

>Junior Ganymedes
>Oldest Members
>[three absolutely ridiculous names hyphenated, like Parsloe-Parsloe-Psmith, or something more creative...]
>Resting Anglers

while these do fit the above category, they dont really suggest (even
to wodehouse fans) a fan club.....

>			-- Neil Bernstein
>			Struggling Classics Majo

however, i dont have a name to add to the list but i like "drones" or 
something similar.

vrs
From: shenai@amnese.eng.uab.edu (Aravind Shenai)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Masterpiece Theater on PBS
Keywords: Birmingham, Broadcast
Date: 22 Jan 93 17:58:48 GMT
Reply-To: shenai@amnese.eng.uab.edu
Distribution: usa
Organization: Biomedical Engg, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Originator: shenai@amnese

Anyone out there who is from Alabama and also a fan of Wodehouse? I need 
to know what is the broadcast time of Masterpiece Theater in this region. 
I am assuming that each state has its own "version" of PBS, but chances 
are it is otherwise! In fact, all of yu who've been watching, please mention
timings too and I'll try all those timings! 
I should sure look at the schedules, problem is I do not know where to get 
them, esp. for PBS!

 A chapter of Wodehouse is a must when I go to bed! Actually, I started out 
 only about 5 years ago, the first one borrowed from a friend. I've read my
 collection over and over again! (I have about 50). I guess none of you will
 sell any! I am looking for PGWs all the time...				

His description of almost everything in this world in a light vein is really
unique. Like even when talking about the death of a hunter (Mr. Briggs?), 
 
(Not Verbatim)
 "He had a slight misunderstanding with a Lion. He thought the Lion was dead,
  it thought it wasn't!"

  Or apologetic cough being alluded to as 'the bronchial white flag'! 

Suffering from a poor lining of the stomach as I do, I think I relate easier to 
Wodehousian characters than many others! 

Please, please mail me some broadcast timings!!!

-Aravind

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From: "rajesh kamath" <rkamath@cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:44:19 -0500

In article <AMATHUR.93Jan21120006@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu> amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes:

>I read 'The Small Bachelor' a long time back and remember the preface mentioning
>that PGW was especially fond of this book. Has anyone else read something
>similar about this or know which was his fondest book ?

I do know for a fact that he liked "A Damsel in Distress" (Of course
he may be mixing it up with some other book!) as the story poured out
in one sitting - I think he wrote it in prison with friendly
cell-mates looking eagerly over his shoulder..

Kamath



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From: offenberg@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joel Offenberg)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
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Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:45:00 GMT

In article <AMATHUR.93Jan21120006@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu>, amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes...
>Hi fellow Wodehouseians (Only proposed term so far)

I think I prefer Wodehousemates :)

>Typical characters : Aunts (either the kind that eat barbed wire (a la Aunt Agatha) 
>                            or the fun kind (Aunt Dahlia)
>			    I hope I didn't get my aunts mixed up)
>		     Uncles (Typically strange - Lord Emsworth)
Two kinds of uncles, strange but clueless (Lord Emsworth)
and publicly odd (Pongo Twistleton-Twistleton's uncle Fred, Earl of something).
				
>		     Protagonists (Usually the Wooster kind
>					How exactly would one describe them ?)
	Feckless.  (I'm not quite sure what the dictonary definition is,
			but it has a picture of Bertie Wooster next to it).

Joel
From: muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: An American who likes Wodehouse
Date: 23 Jan 93 01:45:08
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In-reply-to: 's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:19:07 EST

In article <93022.091907SXC3@psuvm.psu.edu> <SXC3@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>Isn't it perfectly splendid we have our own net group now!  However, I have
>noticed several instances of what I can only call gross aspersions on the
>taste of the common or garden variety American.  There are at least five
>of us (including myself) who not only read Wodehouse, but do so in public.

Count me, also.  I just got my SO started - he's only read a couple of
books, but he likes them a lot.  Of course, we're not really common or
garden variety...*smile*...

Muffy
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not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.| somewhere hard to find~ - Bruce Cockburn
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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Date: 24 Jan 93 22:53:46 GMT
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis


In article <1993Jan23.172601.14248@news.cs.indiana.edu>, "rajesh kamath" <rkamath@cs.indiana.edu> writes:
> 
> As for the Mulliner story where the hero is chased by a mob (led
> ominously by a man wielding a pitchfork), it's THE COMING OF GEORGE
> and our hero is George Mulliner ("Meet Mr. Mulliner")

That was a well-written precis of the incident, and as usual, it opened up the
flood-gates of memory...

> Unfortunately, a rather tuneful conversation with a white-faced lady
> in a train causes our hero to be mistaken for a escapee from the local
> asylum...

Wasn't that when Our Hero tries to offer the little old lady some tea, and
determined to succeed in making his offer, remembers his doctor's advice about
trying to overcome his stammer by singing it, launches into his invitation with
"...tea for two, two for tea..."  The lady, as I remember, pulls the emergency
cord after making some "bubbling" noises for a while :-)

Of course, Mr. Mulliner's relatives do get some odd advice from their doctors
to alleviate their problems.  For example, in "Mulliner Nights: The Smile That
Wins," there's the case of his nephew Adrian Mulliner, the detective, who is
advised by his specialist to overcome his dyspepsia by smiling!  Since he's a
detective, and has a particularly "sardonic and sinister leer," which seems to
convey the suggestion that he knows all, the story has every guilty party (and
there are lots of g. p.) confessing and coming clean as soon as they happen to
catch the "smile" :-)

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
From: sivak-d@acsu.buffalo.edu (D Sivakumar)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Older Wodehouse for Television
Date: 21 Jan 93 19:26:35 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <C17KM0.8z@acsu.buffalo.edu> v128juxa@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu (SCHUYJUANNAH) writes:
>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?

	"Eggs, beans and crumpets", of course!

	-Siva

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From: pwhitman@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip N Whitman)
Subject: Featherstonehaugh
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:08:17 GMT

I heard somewhere that S. Ukridge's middle name was one of those unearthly 
British words that take up several inches of type but only one r two syllables 
of pronunciation; to wit, that "Featherstonehaugh" was, in fact, pronounced 
"Fanshaw."  Two days after I heard this I substitute-taught for a class that 
went on a field trip to a music hall, in which one of the performances was by a
certain Fanshaw (spelled as it sounded) who'd gotten recordings of African 
music and incorporated it with other stuff and danced the Hippopotamus Dance to
it on stage.  Interesting as all that was, all I could think about was whether 
his name used to be spelled "Featherstonehaugh" or not.  Does anyone hnow a 
definite answer to either of these questions?

-Neal Whitman
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From: aleta@cs.cornell.edu (Aleta Ricciardi)
Subject: Re: Bertie different in 2nd Mast.Th. series?
Keywords: jeeves wooster bertie 
Organization: Cornell University, CS Dept., Ithaca, NY
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:54:13 GMT

In article <forb0004.1.728031686@128.101.131.2>, forb0004@128.101.131.2 (Eric J. Forbis) writes:
|> Did Bertie strike anyone as being more assertive, self- assured in the 2nd 
|> Masterpeice Theatre series recently aired? My memory may be in error, but I 
|> remember the 1st season Bertie as more bumbling, dim, vapid; there seemed to 
|> be more contrast between Jeeves and B..  
|> 
|> 
|> Eric J. Forbis     forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu

yes.  or different in some way.  i thought -- especially in the first
the these recent episodes -- that hugh laurie was much jumpier than in
the previous set of masterpiece theatre episodes.  much less relaxed 
and laid-back than i remember (and i'd rented the first set only the week
before in heightened anticipation of the second set).

	aleta
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From: lgolding@netcom.com (Laurence J. Golding)
Subject: PGW and Gilbert & Sullivan
Summary: Connections between PG Wodehouse & works of G&S
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:35:15 GMT

How many of you get a giggle when you run into quotes from and references
to the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in PGW's books?  Three examples from
the Blandings stories:

1) In "Something Fresh", this description of the Efficient Baxter:
"His lordship's secretary he calls himself, but he's really everything
rolled into one, like the man in the play."  (Pooh-Bah, from "The Mikado")

2) In "Summer Lightning", detective Percy Pilbeam marvels at the illegal
scheme proposed by the baronet Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe: "Baronets are
proverbially bad, but surely, felt Percy Pilbeam, there was no excuse for
them to be as bad as all that." (Robin Oakapple in "Ruddigore": "I know
I'm a bad Bart., but I'm not as bad a Bart. as all that.")

3) Again in "Summer Lightning", Percy Pilbeam experiences the effects of a
second pre-dinner cocktail: "The re-lighting of the beacons had the effect of
removing from Pilbeam the last trace of diffidence and shyness."
(Yum-Yum in "The Mikado": "There's not a trace upon her face of diffidence
or shyness.")

Can anyone think of others?  A good friend and fellow PGW fan thinks I'm
reaching too far on those last two - that PGW didn't intend the apparent
quote.  What do you think?
-- 
Laurence J. Golding
lgolding@netcom.com
(510)490-3663
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From: balajiv@boston ( )
Subject: Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre
Organization: Fujitsu America Inc.
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:21:20 GMT

Kannan Subramanian (kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU) wrote:
: 
: [This group is long overdue!]
: 
: In article <1993Jan21.033452.6739@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, 
: cmeadows@nyx.cs.du.edu (Chris Meadows) writes:
: 
: Bertie = B+
: Jeeves = A-
: Madeline Basset = A-
: Bingo Little = B
: Gussie Finknottle = A-
: 
: (I think I'm being very generous here.)
: 
: Harold "Stinker" Pinker, Stephanie Byng, Aunt Dahlia get passing grades.  
: 
: -kannan

what about aunt agatha? i thought she was terrible. (i would have given her an
F) her actions and expressions were absolutely unbelievable.

-b.

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From: ghouse@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Mujtaba Ghouse)
Subject: Re: Viva Wodehouse
Organization: Johns Hopkins Computer Science Department, Baltimore, MD
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:49:59 GMT

loki@netcom.com (James E Myers) writes:
>I would add my favorite line from the first season, when Bertie first met
>Sir Roderick, and greeted him by saying,
>	
>	"I say, what? What? What? What? What?"

>--James

Wasn't that: "What ho, what ho, what ho!"

?

-Mujtaba Ghouse

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From: nsridhar@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Natarajan Sridhar)
Subject: Psmith and Monty Bodkin
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:27:17 GMT


I say, Wodeheads, those of you who have scanned "Psmith Journalist" and a 
Monty Bodkin saga (was it "Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin" ?) ought to 
have noticed the identical ending in either tales. The main character is 
perched on the top storey of a rundown building, with certain thugs trying 
to gain access to the hero via a small trapdoor. I remember Psmith (or Monty)
addressing one such intruder with "Ah, the stout Cortez surveys the Pacific"
(or something of the sort) before beaning him with some blunt object.

Sorry about the fuzzy details; it's been a while since I read my last PGW.

My query is: what's the deal ? Did that particular sequence of events inspire
the creation of Psmith ? Or did PGW like the whole scenario so much that he felt
compelled to include it in two tales ?

**sridhar**
From: ntitley@axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:23:14 GMT
Reply-To: ntitley@axion.bt.co.uk (Nigel Titley)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


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?           

Wilberforce. Aunt Dahlia recounts in (I think) Much Obliged Jeeves that his father had placed a
bet on a horse with Wilberforce somewhere in its name on the day of Bertie's christening. 
I can't remember the exact details.

More trivia, what was Aunt Dahlia's first name?

Email: NTitley@axion.bt.co.uk
Snail: British Telecom Research labs, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK
"Well, I'm disenchanted too. We're all disenchanted." (James Thurber)
From: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Older Wodehouse for Television
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:57:26 GMT
Reply-To: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems

There was some Wodehouse on TV about 15 years ago.  I don't remember
which stories they did, although I could look it up.  They did not
involve Wooster, but another recurring British Layabout.

What I _do_ remember is watching the plot get incredibly tangled, then,
in the last minute or so of the show, everything would come out so
everyone had exactly what they wanted.  I would be sitting there with
my mouth hanging open in amazement.  Then I hit the bookstores and started
buying Wodehouse books.

I didn't know what I was getting myself in for.

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

--f2

---------------------------------
  "He's invited us to his boat to mangle a spot of garbage.
   I paraphrase."
  --Wooster, reading a note inviting him to lunch on a yacht.