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From: frankm@microsoft.com (Frank R.A.J. Maloney)
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:02:51 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Windows/DOS Users Ed Group

In article <C1A3KJ.EH7@news.iastate.edu> sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar) writes:
[deletions]
>
>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!)
>

I have to say I'm not overly fond of Psmith -- too much the smart ass
for my tastes -- but I am very keen on the Blandings stories which seem
to me to be the natural development from Jeeves and Wooster. But truth
to tell the series that sets me to absolutely rocking with mirth is the
golfing stories told by The Oldest Member. These seem to me to be a
very high form of absurdism. The fact that I, a non-golfer, can "get
it" is, I think, a tribute to Wodehouse's superb skills. I'm pleased
that the most literary of my golfing friends also is devoted to these
stories.


-- 
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From: sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar)
Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:37:38 GMT

In article <Jan26.022335.74581@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
>Yes. "Leave it to Psmith," however, delivers more, IMO. 
>
>A less known Psmith novel is "Psmith Journalist" in which Psmith takes over    
>(ably aided by Mike Jackson) the running of a newspaper in New York City (while
>its editor is away on vacation in Europe).

It's been a long time since I read this one, so I may be mistaken...
but are you sure that Mike Jackson appears in this book? It's set
in New York, isn't it?

>-kannan

>ps -
>
>Psmith flirting with crime is a potent motif. The following advert for
>employment from "Leave it to Psmith," for example, is a work of art. 
>
>   
>             L E A V E    I T    T O    PSMITH !
>    
>                   Psmith Will Help You
>             
>             Psmith  Is   Ready   For   Anything
>
>                     DO   YOU   WANT
>
>             Someone  To  Manage  Your  Affairs?
>             Someone  To  Manage  Your  Business?
>             Someone  To  Take The Dog For A Run?
>             Someone  To  Assassinate Your Aunt?
>
>                     PSMITH  WILL  DO  IT
>
>                   CRIME  NOT  OBJECTED  TO
>
>                 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
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From: gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington)
Subject: Is this group alive?
Organization: Contract to CSC, Victoria Uni, Wellington, New Zealand
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:34:48 GMT
Distribution: alt

I have the FAQ prepared, but there's no traffic as far as I can see.
How widely was the newgrp distributed?

Nat
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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: More TV Series?
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:57:41 GMT


In article <1993Jan22.150803.16859@maths.tcd.ie>, jod@maths.tcd.ie (John O'Doherty) writes:
> 
> Just want to know, if there is any plans afoot for a new series of
> Jeeves and Wooster on TV, or is the series finished forever?

Methinks I seem to remember my friend across the pond in Liverpool telling me
that they had been treated to 3 J&W series by now.  Over here in the US, we've
seen only 2 of 'em so far, so we MAY have one more coming (disclaimer: my
memory is so weak on these details that I may well be hallucinating).

Even if we have one more to go, I'm not very sanguine about our chances for
seeing it any time soon.  As I remember it, there was a VERY long gap between
the first and second series.  Your mileage may vary.

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
Date: 26 Jan 1993 18:52:02 GMT
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Sachin S Sapatnekar (sachin@iastate.edu) wrote:
> In article <Jan26.022335.74581@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
> >
> >A less known Psmith novel is "Psmith Journalist" in which Psmith takes over 
> >(ably aided by Mike Jackson) the running of a newspaper in New York City
> >(while its editor is away on vacation in Europe).
> 
> It's been a long time since I read this one, so I may be mistaken...
> but are you sure that Mike Jackson appears in this book? It's set
> in New York, isn't it?

Coincidence. Having just finished the book myself, the plot starts off
thus:

  The editor for a rotten little "family magazine" ("Cosy Moments") takes
  off on a 10-week (not European) vacation on the advice of his doctor. The
  owner is an absentee owner (living in Europe..).

  Psmith, touring the US with Mike Jackson's cricket team (in places like
  Philadelphia and Onehorseville, Ga.), runs into the acting editor (Billy
  Windsor), who is an aspiring "real journalist", with a long resume from
  the rough and tumble Midwest and Wild West (in Montana, where he comes
  from, the editor of the "society rag" keeps a revolver on his desk and
  writes columns like "Jake <something> was spotted in town with his
  cronies. We take this opportunity to remind Jake that he is a rotten
  skunk").

  Billy is acutely unhappy editing Cosy Moments, and Psmith decides to
  stick around with him and liven up the rag (since the magazine is
  temporarily in Billy's hands) with the addition of Kid Brady (a
  heavyweight contender from Montana as a "fighting editor") and a crusade
  to clean up some tenements. The latter action stirs up a hornet's nest,
  with one gang after their blood, and another gang protecting them
  (because Billy was kind to one of the gang leader's cats).

  I won't elaborate much more, but this is an interesting novel that moves
  along at a fast clip with plenty of interesting historical observations
  about New York before WW I.

  The best part of it is the introduction (written in 1915), where Wodehouse
  is urging his London-based readers to believe him that the stories about
  the gangs are, indeed, true, despite their "outlandishness".

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From: aleta@cs.cornell.edu (Aleta Ricciardi)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Favorite Wodehouse Quote
Date: 22 Jan 93 14:05:24 GMT
Organization: Cornell University, CS Dept., Ithaca, NY

In article <Jan22.050258.32415@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:

|> (More trivia : (easy) - Bertie's middle name?

	wilberforce?
|> And how did he get it?           
	dunno

|> Also, Jeeves' first name, anyone? )
	reginald!
	i guess i first saw that in "the tie that binds"

aleta

======
Bertie : Newts, Jeeves.  Those little lizardy things that charge about in
         ponds. 
===
Bertie : Jeeves, I have had another idea.
Jeeves : Oh I _am_ relieved, sir.
From: tak@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov (Tom Kreitzberg)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Date: 23 Jan 93 11:50:51
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
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In-reply-to: sachin@iastate.edu's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:21:53 GMT

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

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From: hedges@vitsemi.com (Dave Hedges)
Subject: Period formal wear
Followup-To: alt.fan.wodehouse
Summary: Evening clothes question
Organization: Vitesse Semiconductor
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:54:25 GMT

I've enjoyed the recent PBS broadcasts in the Bay area.  My questions
relate to the clothing.  I have a white tie, tails, etc. but not the
flat, stiff (starched?) white shirt shown.  So:

 1. Is this a two piece deal (white shirt with a board-like front 
    attached; studs through both?)?

 2. What exactly is this called?

 3. Where to buy such a thing these days?
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From: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM (Fil Feit)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: OK, Let's Vote.
Date: 25 Jan 93 12:48:32 GMT
Reply-To: filfeit@rael.Tymnet.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems

Alright, fellow Drones,

Since I'm responsible for starting this "what do you call Wodehouse fans"
thread, I thought I should see if we can agree on a name.

I want to do this in two parts:

1) collect ideas.

2) take a vote.

I know I've missed some of the names people chose; if you could post ones
I've missed, or mail them to me, I'll assemble a list.  In a week or so,
I'll post the list, and let's take a vote.

The list so far:

Wodehouseians
Woodies
Wodies
Wodeheads
Wodehousemates
Drones

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.

--f2





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From: jod@maths.tcd.ie (John O'Doherty)
Subject: More TV Series?
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:08:03 GMT


Just want to know, if there is any plans afoot for a new series of
Jeeves and Wooster on TV, or is the series finished forever?

John.

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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Distribution: alt
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:57:09 GMT


In article <1993Jan22.000000.26062@news.nd.edu>, dwalton1@bach.helios.nd.edu (david walton) writes:
> 
> As for the series on PBS, while I like the character of Bertie, I'm
> disappointed by Jeeves (upper lip not stiff enough), Aunt Dahlia
> (neither large nor loud enough--she hunted with the Pitchley, after
> all!), Spode (too loud; needs to be more threatening with less
> shouting), and Gussie (not sufficiently out of it).  Madeline Basset
> seems about right, as does Bingo Little.  Aunt Agatha I've not yet
> seen.

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.

LOVE the series' theme music, though!  I find myself whistling it at work and
annoying my office-mates. :-)

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

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From: dsr@horus.cs.Virginia.EDU (Dana Richards)
Subject: Re: Older Wodehouse for Television
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:28:35 GMT

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

>How about Wodehouseians ?

Wodehousemates?

dana richards
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From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
Subject: Re: Wodehouse listing
Organization: Wimsey Information Services
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:44:17 GMT

In article <106401@netnews.upenn.edu> foxde@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Deborah E Fox) writes:
>If I may make a recommendation, may I suggest a book called _Who's Who in
>Wodehouse_?  It's by Daniel H. Garrison, published by International 
>Polygonics, Ltd., 1989, $10.95, and is basically a dictionary of Wodehouse 

Is there a phone number for the Pubisher so we can order it? My local
bookstore say's it's still in print but is quoting a price about three 
times as high. 

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From: amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Date: 23 Jan 93 16:10:50
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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In-reply-to: tak@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov's message of 23 Jan 93 11:50:51

Hi !

In article <TAK.93Jan23115051@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov> tak@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov (Tom
Kreitzberg) writes: 

   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?).


'Leave it to Psmith' was made into a television serial in India about 4 years
back. Although it was in an Indian language (Hindi) and most of the Wodehouseian
charm (as far as language goes) was lost, it still made interesting viewing
because of the plot.

Yes, the idea of a movie is good but I would think that Merchant-Ivory movies
are usually of a serious or classic nature.


Alok.
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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 00:46:04 GMT


In article <1993Jan23.165506.6979@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, ghouse@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Mujtaba Ghouse) writes:
> 
> BTW does anyone else have a favourite J&W? Mine is `The Mating Game,'
> which has the most convoluted plot of the stories I've read.

Mine's "Right Ho, Jeeves" (also known as "Brinkley Manor").  The bit where
Gussie Fink-Nottle, the famous newt-fancier, hands out prizes at the Market
Snodsbury Grammar School while drunk to the gills has to be PGW at his best!
The exchange of telegrams between Bertie and Aunt Dahlia is also a classic...

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

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From: csshah@sunvis2.vislab.olemiss.edu (Viren R. Shah)
Subject: Re: Psmith
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 23:12:59 GMT

In <1993Jan25.185132.24264@ennews.eas.asu.edu> tprasad@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Trivikram Prasad) writes:


>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.

I think that PGW's Psmith stories are the best , and i doubt whether
His having written more of them would make me blase about them.....
.....just my opinion....altho i think that "the golf omnibus" is his
best collection of short stories.

vrs




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From: kencham@ulysses.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote)
Subject: PGW Trivia
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 03:51:53 GMT

Ho!

Two questions, one easy, the other tough:

(Easy) : Before _Jeeves_, who was in _BW_'s service? 
(Slightly harder): Why did the person in Q.(Easy) leave?

(Hard) : What's the _Oldest Member_'s name?

\deepak
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From: yatin@wildthing.bellcore.com
Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
Reply-To: yatin@wildthing.bellcore.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 22:46:18 GMT


In article K4v@news2.cis.umn.edu,  rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella) writes:
>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>."


I believe it's ``I spit me of Nastikoff.'' 
I think that's the story in which the Russian novelist says that trying to
assasinate Trotsky or Lenin is a national pastime.

-yatin.



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From: shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin)
Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
Organization: Dept. of Chem, Columbia U, New York
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:54:06 GMT
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In article <Jan.25.22.14.29.1993.5141@foglet.rutgers.edu> josh@foglet.rutgers.edu (J Storrs Hall) writes:
>Speaking of referring to Wodehouse' works as a Canon, does anyone
>see the similarity between the Jeeves stories and the Sherlock
>Holmes stories?  
>
>* The adventures of two bachelors
>* who share an apartment in London
>* one is brilliant and inscrutable
>* the other one narrates, leaving the reader to try and figure 
>  out what the brilliant one sees before it's revealed by the
>  turn of events.

Except that in Doyle, the brilliant and inscrutable partner employs the
other, and in Wodehouse it is the other way around.  Spontaneous
symmetry breaking, I suppose.   :-)

	-P.
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From: nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein)
Subject: Re: Wodehouse translation
Organization: Amherst College
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:45:49 GMT

Bapa Rao (brao@pollux.usc.edu) wrote:
: I can't imagine Wodehouse translating well into any language. Rewrites,
: perhaps. But you have to read it in English to appreciate the humor.

	That's the whole point -- translating Wodehouse and preserving the
humor is a nearly impossible task.  Nothing like a challenge, what?  Let us
see what stout-hearted sons and daughters of Arthur may rise to the task...
 
: Bapa Rao
: 
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From: v128juxa@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu (SCHUYJUANNAH)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Older Wodehouse for Television
Date: 21 Jan 93 14:38:00 GMT
Organization: SUNY@Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

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?

Wodehousians?
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: sriram@tcs.com (Sriram Srinivasan)
Subject: Re: Great News!!! 
Organization: Teknekron Communications, Inc
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:32:59 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.135950.16769@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, tipset@stkitts.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Scott Temple) writes:
|> What great news to come into work and find a PGW group.  A couple of comments
|> and then I will not waste your time further:
|> 
|> The answer tho the Nazi simpithizing story was correct.  PGW was duped and was
|> not a Nazi sympathizer.
|> 
|> During the height of his popularity in the twenties and thirties, mens clubs
|> were springing up all over the world in salute to the books - 10 cents to
|> the person that can name these clubs???????
|> 
|> And now for my own self interest.  I have recently begun the very nasty habit
|> of collecting books.  Of course, due to the volume of his work, my biggest
|> section is Wodehouse books.  I have about 12 or 13 first editions and am lookingfor more, if you are willing to sell.  First editions with original Jacket
|> Covers are worth much more.
|> 
|> I can be reaced on the net at tipset@cc.bellcore.com or at 908-873-0633 in
|> New Jersey.  I have a voice mail in the San Fran bay area 510-823-3135.
|> 
|> Scott Temple
|> tipset@cc.bellcore.com


Serendipity Bookstore in Berkeley, CA, (don't know the numbers) have a lot of 
first prints .. really expensive though.

Sriram
From: mikes@Ingres.COM (Mike Schilling)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Date: 24 Jan 93 06:01:19 GMT

From article <C1A3KJ.EH7@news.iastate.edu>, by sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar):
> In article <1993Jan22.195524.18393@Shiva.COM> phil@Shiva.COM (Phil Budne) writes:
>>
>>Eons (well, at least twelve years) ago, I saw a PBS dramatization of a
>>Wodehouse story which ended with a chararter being chased by a mob.
>>They run into a house where someone is doing a crossword, and the
>>dialog that ensues is;
>>
>>	"What is a 9 letter word for an implement used in the pusuit
>>	of agriculture?"
>>
>>	"Pitchfork.  And that's not all it's used in pursuit of!!"
>>
>>Does anyone know the name of the story?
> 
> "The Truth About George," perhaps? It's a Mulliner story.
In fact in the introduction to one of his books (The World of Mr. Mulliner, 
perhaps?), Wodehouse describes this story as the inspiration for Mulliner; it
was so ridiculous that he wanted an unreliable narrator to tell it,
thus Mulliner and the Angler's Rest were invented as a frame for the
story.
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From: foxde@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Deborah E Fox)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Wodehouse listing
Date: 25 Jan 93 01:31:59 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

A lot of people have been asking about lists of Wodehouse books, Wodehouse 
trivia (what was the name of... etc.), and so forth.

If I may make a recommendation, may I suggest a book called _Who's Who in
Wodehouse_?  It's by Daniel H. Garrison, published by International 
Polygonics, Ltd., 1989, $10.95, and is basically a dictionary of Wodehouse 
characters combined with a listing of every story Pelham Grenville ever wrote.
(Excellent illustrations, too.)

The listing of stories is about eighteen pages and thus a bit long for a FAQ
(although anyone who _wants_ to type it in is welcome to try), but if you are 
going crazy trying to remember character first names, who was engaged to whom 
when, etc. I highly suggest reading either this or some other written form of 
compendium rather than going through all your Wodehouse books again in search
of that elusive quote.

Hope this helps someone out there!

(One word of warning: read written listings of books with caution, since 
sometimes plots may be given away.)

- Debbie
"He who has not met Wodehouse has not lived a full life." 
- San Francisco Chronicle
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