*delurks*

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

I was just reading Ring for Jeeves and ran into a sentence about the rivers Me Wang and Wang Me.

...

Totally innocent, right?

On another note, I was re-reading Terry Pratchett's Jingo (which, by the way, features a warrior butler), and some sequences are dripping with Wodehousean influence. Prime example:

'Carrot?'
'Yes, sir?'
'I want you to listen very carefully to the order I am about to give you.'
'Certainly, sir.'
'The point I'm making is that it won't be a request or a suggestion or some sort of a hint.'
'Understood, sir.'
'I have, as you know, always encouraged my officers to think for themselves and not blindly obey me, but sometimes in any organization it is necessary for instructions to be followed to the letter and with alacrity.'
'Right, sir.'
'Untie me right now or you'll bloody well live to regret untying me!'
'Er, sir, I believe there's an inadvertant inconsistency in-'
'Carrot!'
'Of course, sir.'

Comments

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

...Oh, and Pratchett writes one or two books a year, I'd say. :D He talks of slowing down, but I got Darwin's Watch just a few months before Thud!

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

I think it might be more like 2 or 4!!! Damn! Can't keep up. *G*

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

*checks*

1971 - 1
1976 - 1
1981 - 1
1983 - 1
1986 - 1
1987 - 2
1988 - 2
1989 - 3
1990 - 3
1991 - 2
1992 - 3
1993 - 2
1994 - 1
1995 - 2
1996 - 3
1997 - 1
1998 - 2
1999 - 2
2000 - 1
2001 - 3
2002 - 2
2003 - 1
2004 - 2
2005 - 2

[rosamundeb.livejournal.com]

You're too damn anal, you know that? *throws you points*

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

Eep! :D Well, I was curious and had to check. But look at those years with three books each! Now that is impressive.

2005 is also 3 if you count Where's My Cow, but I don't think we will.

[mechanicaljewel.livejournal.com]

At Neil's signing he said "The only way you can keep Terry from writing is locking him in a room with no pen or paper."

And then I got a flash of a scene from Quills...

Anyone who has seen that movie can understand why I don't wish to finish that sentence.

[ilthit.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha. I haven't, but I believe the man wrote on his shirt or sheets with bodily fluids? Let's leave Terry with his computer, we wouldn't want to torture the poor man.