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[helpmejeeves]

[FAIL!private to the Admiral. ie--not private at all]Excuse me, Admiral fellow, if you could do a chap a favour, I'd like to trade in my current Warden Item for a new one. I'd like my new Warden Item to be a valet, tall, dark-haired, goes by the name of "Reginald Jeeves." I'm sure he'd do a corking job keeping me informed of my inmate-to-be's

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Bertie will call him a...communist. Yes, a communist. (Bertie's insults need work.)

[helpmejeeves]

Nay, not just any person, my valet, Jeeves, who is as far beyond normal personhood as...a very brainy chap is beyond a not brainy chap.

That's...almost like having a valet.

[helpmejeeves]

Of course not! No one owns Jeeves. He's my employee. He tells me I give him more than adequate remuneration for his services. [Jeeves is in charge of paying most of Bertie's bills, too, so Bertie has no idea how much he pays Jeeves. But he assumes that it's a fair wage.]

[helpmejeeves]

I am not dim!

You sound like one of those Red Dawn fellows. "Comrade" this and "comrade" that. Next you'll be spouting off about needing to massacre the bourgeoisie and disembowel the aristocracy or some rot like that. I know how this goes; my friend Bingo was a communist for a few days.

[helpmejeeves]

More than a Red Dawn communist? Are you an MP?

It's nineteen twenty [mumble mumble Wodehouse is so nonsensical with dates but somewhere between 1925 and 1930ish.]

It's like the intellectual equivalent of a tiger playing with a mouse before eating it.

[helpmejeeves]

You don't happen to march about the countryside declaiming the dissoluteness of modern society and the quality of British knees, do you?

[You are reminding him of Roderick Spode...only communist.]

[helpmejeeves]

Roderick Spode, Lord Sidcup now, amateur dictator. He runs a group called the Blackshorts and threatens to mash people into jelly. Bally nuisance if you ask me.

[helpmejeeves]

I should hope so. It'd be a tricky thing to be worse, I tell you. Spode is a perfect poop. Grown men biffing about wearing black shorts crying Heil, Spode? It's a frightful sight to behold.

[helpmejeeves]

Hitler?

[Just a few years too early for Bertie to be familiar with that name. If he paid more attention to international politics it might have rung a bell, but as it is...]