What ho, all ( Read more... )

Hello all. First time poster, long time lurker.

I was just scanning, for no good reason, the recent biography of Madonna and found the following quote:

My job description may not be conventional-although I might sometimes be termed Jeeves to Madonna’s Bertie Wooster-my ability to reassure my sister in times of trouble or self-doubt is one of the ( Read more... )

bertiebwriting has indicated that I can take over recounting parts of "Ring for Jeeves" which don't refer to Bertie but are still entertaining. Two passages sprang to my mind immediately. They also have the added benefit of supporting another member's argument that Jeeves is a master-criminal in his spare time.

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Well, enough have expressed an interest, so I'm transcribing some of the passages from Ring For Jeeves for your interest/enjoyment.

Again, this is the novel which is set post Second World War, (though Wodehouse doesn't seem to have aged Jeeves very much, if at all) and is the only novel that has Jeeves and no Bertie. I'm posting all the places ( Read more... )

You know how there are things you suspect  Jeeves would use a quotation to say? Things like: 'cheer up, bad things happen to everyone' are usually said with a quote from Marcus Aurelius, for e.g.
There are a few quotations in my fic. But not being very well-read or particularly good at Googling, I haven't managed to find the quotes to meet the words ( Read more... )

So, I was tagging old journal entries, and I came upon this one, which has some out-of-context Wodehouse quotes that might amuse you guys. Apologies if these have been quoted here ad infinitum.

(I am totally five years old.)

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Just wanted to share a quote I read in "P.G. Wodehouse: In His Own Words," by Barry Day and Tony Ring.

"I sometimes wish I wrote that powerful stuff the reviewers like so much, all about incest and homosexualism." (Letter to Denis Mackail, 28 February 1960)

Help! I've just found a quote in My Man Jeeves, at the end of the story The Aunt and the Sluggard.

It's brain," I said; "pure brain! What do you do to get like that,
Jeeves? I believe you must eat a lot of fish, or something. Do you eat
a lot of fish, Jeeves?"

"No, sir."

"Oh, well, then, it's just a gift, I take it; and if you aren't born
that way ( Read more... )

I've just been reading My Man Jeeves for the first time on Project Gutenberg, and came across this foreshadowy bit in the chapter 'Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest' that made me squee.
(This is after Bertie has agreed to let Jeeves dispose of his pink tie and the Country Gentleman hat.)

I felt like one of those chappies in the novels who calls off ( Read more... )