*delurks*

Oct. 7th, 2005 10:50 am
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[identity profile] ilthit.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] indeedsir_backup
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.'

Date: 2005-10-07 10:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com
And I want to squee again here about Neil Gaiman having used the word "gruntled" in 'Anansi Boys'... because I still can't get over it.

WARRIOR BUTLERS!!!! O.o Shady past? uh huh.

Date: 2005-10-07 01:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rosamundeb.livejournal.com
*L*! I'll have to read that. Hyel's mentioned Carrot and I've read some of the other books with Vimes in them, but don't remember if Carrot was in them. And certainly don't remember a warrior butler. *G*

Just how the hell many books a year does Pratchett write, anyway? *!*!*!

Date: 2005-10-07 02:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] weaselwoman13.livejournal.com
Me Wang and Wang Me. Teeheeheehee. That reminds me, I was just talking to my friend the other day and said, "I'm trying to lower the intensity on my slash goggles, but it doesn't help that Wodehouse put a character named Willie Cream in this book!"

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