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There is one passage with Archibald (don't remember which Archibald) and the aunt of his beloved. She (the aunt) believes Shakespeare was actually written by Bacon. The dialog goes roughly like this
"She believes that Shakespeare's plays were writte…
My heart goes out to Plum for having suffered so much for his wooly headedness.
1.Mulliner's Buck-u-uppo!
2.Imitated a hen laying an egg
3. Brotherly love
4. Ummmm.........
5. Ummmm..........
Fotheringay Phipps, too.
hahaha! Well said, Prem, Murali! Terribly sporting of miss cherry, to brighten up our day like this.
Deverill hall is the Winkworth residence, isn't it? What IS Aunt Agatha's place,now? I think it has a lake in it..... Ah, the pangs of growing old!
No. 4 sounds like Gussie having had one of his run-ins with Roderick Spode.
Reminds me of a Jeeves line I loved - 'Ill informed as I am about the larger fauna of the African continent, I do not believe rhinocerii are equipped with licence plates" or words to that effect.
I had a similar experience once. A person I had, for economic reasons, to bow to, told me in about 35000 words an anecdote the nub of which was someone he met in a foreign airport thought that Indira Gandhi was Mahatma Gandhi's daughter.
Enjoyed that!
The only book where Jeeves is without Wooster?
For some reason, this little bit always makes me chuckle
Beach,' said Lord Esmworth.
'M'lord?'
'I've been swindled. This dashed thing doesn't work.'
'Your lordship cannot see clearly?'
'I can't see at all, dash it. It's all black.'
The butler was a…
Hadn't taken a census! Pure genius!
1. Wilberforce. Don't know how he got it, though
2. Hermione
3. Roderick Spode
4. Oops, don't know this one!
5. Claude and Eustace.
Hey, this is fun! More fun than the WI group where I've had an overdose of 'nom' stuff. Cheers!
Your devoted audien…
Enjoyed that! Thanks
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On the importance of being observant
For some reason, this little bit always makes me chuckle
Beach,' said Lord Esmworth.
'M'lord?'
'I've been swindled. This dashed thing doesn't work.'
'Your lordship cannot see clearly?'
'I can't see at all, dash it. It's all black.'
The butler was an observant man.
'Perhaps if I were to remove the cap at the extremity of the instrument, m'lord, more satisfactory results might be obtained?'
'Eh? Cap? Is there a cap? So there is. Take it off, Beach.'
'Very good, m'lord.'
Beach,' said Lord Esmworth.
'M'lord?'
'I've been swindled. This dashed thing doesn't work.'
'Your lordship cannot see clearly?'
'I can't see at all, dash it. It's all black.'
The butler was an observant man.
'Perhaps if I were to remove the cap at the extremity of the instrument, m'lord, more satisfactory results might be obtained?'
'Eh? Cap? Is there a cap? So there is. Take it off, Beach.'
'Very good, m'lord.'
Posted on March 16, 2009 at 2:38pm —
Quick Quiz (though not quite the quiz you might expect)
Most of you are better read than I am, and my scatterbrain is a terrible repository for trivia anyway, so I thought I would write a quiz which has no wrong answers or, if it does, carries very little weightage. This is a standard method of instruction in MBA courses, a technique which enables ignoramuses ('I think you mean "ignoramii", sir', says Jeeves) to draw emoluments as teachers. Ignoramii (thank you very much, Jeeves) abound in business schools such as the one I graduated from (no, I'm no… Continue
Posted on March 5, 2009 at 7:04pm — 1 Comment
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- At 2:27pm on March 4, 2009,
Prem Rao said… - Hi, Narendra
Very glad to have you join us. I have liked your blog posts and look forward to your contributions here:) .
Cheers!
Prem
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