[identity profile] kakareen.livejournal.com
Listen to the blissful fanmix put together by
, I can't help but be struck rather forcefully, as if by a quite sizable sledgehammer, but thankfully without the bruising and what-have-you, by the song "What is This Thing Called Love". It is a canon song, which Bertie offers to perform for Jeeves after they have 'broken up' over the banjolele. I had raised an eyebrow over this, and that eyebrow went a whole eighth of an inch higher after reading the lyrics. Having now heard the song, my expression has now escalated to Wooster levels. It is not bright, or cheery. It has not a bouncey beat. It is....melancholy, even. It is just the sort of song Bertie would not care for.
Nevermind Bertie wanting to seranade Jeeves with a love song. The fact that it is not Bertram's usual style of music really drives the point home. Is ever-cheery Wooster so put out that this song fits his mood? Or is he deliberately choosing a song he thinks Jeeves might enjoy, trying to meet him halfway?

Either way, it's all getting a bit ridiculous. As Giles said to Buffy, "I think the subtext is rapidly becoming....text."
I don't even NEED my rainbow-tinted lenses on for this. It's all specially printed for my special viewing needs already.

This is not the only instance of this. There is the well-known ending to "The Tie That Binds". There is the throw-away comment from Bingo that "Jeeves is the brains in the family, isn't he?". And so many others. I invite you to post your favorites.

Anyway, the point I am meandering to is: Was dear old Plum doing this on purpose?
[identity profile] hobbitjc.livejournal.com
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)

Eh?

Feb. 14th, 2007 10:09 pm
[identity profile] nohopeafterthis.livejournal.com
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 there's no use worrying."
 

I mean, eh? I mean in the TV series definately, there are definate references to Jeeves eating a lot of fish, and I could have sworn its referred to as a cause of his intelligence in another book - I think it's Joy in the Morning.

This is odd. Continuity error, or am I missing something here?

Hee!

Feb. 13th, 2007 11:10 pm
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[identity profile] woe-in-a-hoodie.livejournal.com
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 the fight with his wife in the last chapter and decides to forget and forgive.

I just thought it was cute that Bertie refers to Jeeves as his wife. n_n
[identity profile] msliz4857.livejournal.com
I ran across this quote today and had to share. We knew all along, of course; it's just nice to have it confirmed by Plum. ;)

Emphasis added.

"You know, Jeeves, you're by way of being rather a topper."
"I endeavour to give satisfaction, sir."
"One in a million, by Jove!"
"It is very kind of you to say so, sir."
"Well, that's about all, then, I think."
"Very good, sir."

Jeeves Takes Charge
[identity profile] jestana.livejournal.com
My friend [livejournal.com profile] mylodon was kind enough to send me a copy of Very Good, Jeeves that she found in a used bookstore and I found a couple quotes that might amuse people.

CLICKIE! )

Tinkerty Tonk!
[identity profile] hangingfire.livejournal.com
Hello all -- lurker and newish Wodehouse fan checking in, with a request for a cite.

I'm trying to find the original source for where Stephen Fry said, "A sort of Jooster. 'Why take two Wodehouse characters into the shower when you can just Jooster and go?'" (Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] innocentsmith for providing the quote.) Any leads would be helpful.

(This is in relation to someone asking Hugh Laurie about House/Wilson on "Inside the Actor's Studio" last night. I'm hoping to make a point to a friend who was somewhat appalled by the question even coming up at all. XD)

Thanks!
[identity profile] weaselwoman13.livejournal.com
You know, some of these are here only as a result of me being quite immature and silly -- but, damn it, we must laugh at anything we can in these here troubled times!
'Joy in the Morning' quotes! )

I <3 Plum

Mar. 31st, 2006 03:57 pm
[identity profile] weaselwoman13.livejournal.com
'Eeek!' said the aunts, speaking as one aunt. -The Mating Season
[identity profile] weaselwoman13.livejournal.com
From The Mating Season, chapter 5:

I remember once when he and I arrived at a country house where the going threatened to be sticky, Jeeves, as we alighted, murmured in my ear the words 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came, sir', and at the time I could make nothing of the crack. Subsequent inquiry, however, revealed that this Roland was one of those knights of the Middle Ages who spent their time wandering to and fro, and that on fetching up one evening at a dump known as the Dark Tower he had scratched the chin a bit dubiously, not liking the look of things.

This made me laugh, because I love it when great literature gets translated into Woosterese. But also, I wish Jeeves would murmur words in my ear...
[identity profile] sn4fu.livejournal.com
I know, I'm one of those terrible gals that pops in and out only when she's got a stupid question to ask. Humblest apologies to begin with. Seeing as I'm still plugging away at that Wodehouse research paper I mentioned quite a while back, I was wondering if any of you could help me place this quote:

"...if the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune want to crush his proud spirit, they have to pull their socks up and make a special effort."

I know it's a Bertie Wooster, but I can't for the life of me figure out where it came from.

Thanks!

Quotes fun

Mar. 4th, 2006 05:01 pm
[identity profile] stargazy.livejournal.com
I'm putting together a massive Wodehouse Quotes database at the moment (purely for my own pleasure, of course, but then why not?)

Since it'll take me an age on my own, I thought perhaps people might like to contribute their favourite passages/descriptions/bits of dialogue et cetera? I stand with open arms to receive them!
[identity profile] musegaarid.livejournal.com
*giggles* So, I found this quote in "Jeeves In the Offing" which [livejournal.com profile] championlurker posted yesterday...

"He had been gone about twenty minutes when Jeeves came in, bowler hat in hand, to say goodbye. A solemn moment, taxing our self-control to the utmost. However, we both kept the upper lip stiff, and after we had kidded back and forth for a while he started to withdraw."

Italics added for emphasis. ;) I just had to share!
[identity profile] smokingthings.livejournal.com
Okay, so has anyone here read Fry's novel The Liar? I started it yesterday afternoon and I am so thunderstruck with weirdness that I felt the need to come here for a reality check, which was possibly not a great idea but where else could I go? So here we have it (cut for spoilers and tea-fueled madness):

Who is this? )
[identity profile] tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com
I found this yesterday and [livejournal.com profile] hoskie told me to post it here, so...

"Many well off, and some not so well of, men would always have a man servant who as often as not 'lived' in with their unmarried master. This did not attract any attention and gave plenty of opportunity for semi permanent relationships."

and

"A popular Turkish bath in Jermyn street was well used by gay customers from around 1838 until the nineteen seventies. Gentlemens' clubs often had baths staffed by attractive young men who would massage and pamper club members. Women of course were never allowed on the premises and this tradition continues today despite sex equality laws."


Hehehe. *happy grin*

*delurks*

Oct. 7th, 2005 10:50 am
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[identity profile] 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.'
[identity profile] tootsiemuppet.livejournal.com
"Jeeves," I said, and if there were tears in the eyes, what of it? We Woosters are not afraid to confess honest emotion, "there is none like you, none."
   "It is extremely kind of you to say so, sir"
   "It was all I could do to keep from leaping out and shaking your hand."
   "It would scarcely have been judicious in the circumstances, sir."
   "That's what I thought. Your father wasn't a snake-charmer, was he Jeeves?"
"No, sir."
   "Just crossed my mind."
 

 And now I have a vision in my head of Jeeves charming Bertie's snake.

RPS moment

Apr. 13th, 2005 08:19 pm
[identity profile] peak-in-darien.livejournal.com

I am forever overflowing with squee at every Fry/Laurie RPS slash moment, but this one I felt I needed to share with indeedsir.

Stephen: Exactly! That's absolutely right. That, above all, is the point we wanted to drive home, snog briefly in the porch and then take upstairs for a quick round of banal sex.

Hugh: Banal sex?

Stephen: Bexactly.

I literally hyperventilated when I read this. Literally.

It's from this sketch (http://www.geocities.com/mmemym/bits4/fal0164.htm).

*cough*  That is all. Going now.

[identity profile] anima-mecanique.livejournal.com
What ho! Another "it's so canon!" moment.

This one comes C.O. [livejournal.com profile] tootsiemuppet -- her internet is on the fritz and I am posting in her stead.

From Thank You, Jeeves:

(to Pauline:)"Mr Wooster is an agreeable young gentleman, but I would describe him as essentially one of Nature's bachelors."


Yes, I think we've heard that euphemism before ^^

Others:

"I was at school with Bertie Wooster," said Chuffy. "I like to think of it. At private school and also at Eton and after that at Oxford. He was loved by everybody."
*snerk*

"The attitude of fellows towards finding girls in their bedroom shortly after midnight varies. Some like it. Some don't. I didn't."
"one of Nature's bachelors". Right. Got it. ^_~

'Your own idea?'
'No, Jeeves's.'
I could not restrain a wistful sigh.
'Jeeves is a wonder.'

I'm sure he is.
[identity profile] peak-in-darien.livejournal.com

Unfortunately I returned Leave it to Psmith before remembering to do this. But here, instead, are some from Psmith in the City, which I have just read. For the sake of Wodehouse slash:

 

A few suspect quotes )

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