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[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Oh, how these reviews amuse me...

"Based on the well-loved novels of P.G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse, this British series featuring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, chronicles the misadventures (romantic and otherwise) of the impeccably dressed Bertie Wooster and his trusty and sagacious butler, Jeeves. "

Am I the only one who read this as "romantic and otherwise adventures between Jeeves and Bertie"?


I found a Belgian Drones Club... omgsquee.

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[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've been trained to twitch when Jeeves is referred to as a butler.

Heh...if we're doing accidental innuendos in articles, this one made me choke on my coffee:

"And so Jeeves dutifully awaits his master's beck and call from wherever it might come - the back of Wooster's car, his bed, his club, a country estate of one of his school chums."

....really, was it *necessary* to have the first two places be the bed and the backseat of the car? *laugh*

The whole thing is here (http://www.hatsharpening.com/j&w/mtbook.php). It has some delectable quotes.

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've been trained to twitch when Jeeves is referred to as a butler.

Heh...if we're doing accidental innuendos in articles, this one made me choke on my coffee:

"And so Jeeves dutifully awaits his master's beck and call from wherever it might come - the back of Wooster's car, his bed, his club, a country estate of one of his school chums."

....really, was it *necessary* to have the first two places be the bed and the backseat of the car? *laugh*

The whole thing is here (http://www.hatsharpening.com/j&w/mtbook.php). It has some delectable quotes.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't think I quite understand what the difference is between a butler and a valet. I know they are supposed to be some substantial dissimilarities in their duties, but never really knew what they were exactly.

Hah! Oh, I'd actually read that one and read right over it. I feel horribly bad now, skipping over slash. 'The back of Wooster's car'. Rawr! Thanks for quoting it back. ;)

I love that article, though. Simply for Hugh and Stephen's quotes. *twirls happily* It's true, they could hardly have found anyone better for the parts. Not to mention I've a soft spot for best-friend-actors who do buddy parts every now and then. Extra points credited for being funny as hell, and extra extra points being credited to Hugh for being as musical as he is... I might give Stephen his extra extras later on. I'm going to start reading 'Making History' tonight. (Was going to start it earlier, but Wildian poetry demanded my attention. Damn him for writing about Pan. He should know I can't resist that. *shakes fist at dead people who should know better than to write books that would still be read ages lates*)

I'm babbling, aren't I? Ignore it. I just took a little nap and tend to be gabby when I just wake up. *makes coffee*

[anima-mecanique.livejournal.com]

The way I understand it, a butler is the head of the rest of the household staff (if you have any) and he manages the household generally -- arranging social calendars, manning the door, and whatnot. Whereas a valet is the sort of servant that one takes on trips -- he lays out your clothes, draws your bathwater, personal servant stuff.

At least that's what I think it is. I've probably got it dead wrong, of course, and I don't suppose it makes all that much of a difference when you've only got one servant to begin with.

It was a pretty good article -- though I think a proper fellow like Jeeves would eschew the backseat of a car for such activities. Rather vulgar, I thought.

Sorry about the double-post, Simon did something weird. :/

[dryadwoman.livejournal.com]

Hee, love your icon. It reminds me of the time I told a friend how slashable I thought J&W were:
He: Jeeves! That's so wrong! "A gentleman's gentleman"!
I: Exactly.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Simon's forgiven.

Thanks for the explanation. I'd been wondering for a while now and have been entirely too lazy to look it up.

You think Jeeves would eschew the backseat? Aw, you're ruining at least five perfectly good fantasies here. *G*

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

^_^! Hee, thanks.

This is what happened with me:
Mom: What are you reading?
Me: Jeeves and Wooster.
Mom: Again?
Me: Well, it's funny as hell and there's slash to be found, of course.
Mom: Between master and valet?
Me: Yes.
Mom: And before that it was LotR with master and gardener?
Me: Yes.
Mom: PotC with mistress and lady's maid?
Me: Uh huh.
Mom: Household staff is really never safe around you, is it?
Me: ^.^; Not really. But Jeeves puts Bertie to bed and sat next to him while he was bathing and Bertie is utterly helpless without him and...
Mom: Like you and me when you were three?
Me: O.o! Do you want me to slash us two?

I love my mom, she's mental.

[dryadwoman.livejournal.com]

Lol. I think I would have to explain slash if I used the term around my mother, and then she'd go "hm" in a sort of maternal way. Which is a pity, really, because she used to fancy David McCallum too...

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Aw, you should try to make her cross over. It's incredibly fun.

Mine sort of rolled into it by all the remarks I was making on LotR at the time. Just try to avoid the "so, really it's gay pornography?" question.

^^;;

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

:D Adorable new icon, Gilly-toots.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Hylie-kins.

Could you get on aim?

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

Sorry - I'm at the section, and not even AIM express works here. Chat here? Something up? How're the holiday plans?

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

...or in email... So we won't spam the community. Aheh.

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

And now I'm thinking about Jeeves and Bertie and activities in the backseat. You two, honestly. *huffs*

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

My hotmail's been acting up again. Half the stuff I send out never makes it to the recipient.

's The holiday plans we need to talk about. I er.. didn't get my mom's consent to come down. X(

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

I would not mention the subject to Mom.

Mom (prompted by something on TV: "I don't understand how anyone could be attracted to someone of his own gender. I mean, if I was a man, I just can't imagine it."
Me: "Well, you're attracted to them now, aren't you?"
Mom: "Yes, but I'm a woman."

Helen and Nikki kissing in Bad Girls prompted this:
Mom: "I don't like it how... these British shows... make it look like it's... fifty-fifty, you know?"
I took that to mean that it's unrealistic that a show about a women's prison has a lesbian relationship in it.

*rolls her eyes* AND she's against kink. She says sex is natural and okay, as long as it's not kinky.

This might not be the place to talk about this, but...

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

Shit! Oh no. Well, I guess that's it then. Why is your mom against it?

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

Oh, and get a yahoo account.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

She seems (perhaps rightly) under the impression that I've spent enough time abroad as is.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

:p at you

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

*huffs* But it's for ME! You haven't seen me yet. *sigh* I don't know when I'll be able to come to Belgium.

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

It depends on the mater, I suppose. Mine's pretty openminded about most things.

*hugs her*

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

I'll find a way to come to Finland someday. -_-'

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

But that's "abroad". :(

[tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com]

One should imagine that the country-arrest will wear off after some time... shouldn't one?