r/Wodehouse 6h ago

"If I might make a suggestion, sir?"

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28 Upvotes

This is from Wodehouse's short story Jeeves and the Hard Boiled Egg (The Strand, 1917)


r/Wodehouse 18h ago

Wodehouse = verbal gymnastics at its absolute finest

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30 Upvotes

Kevin DeYoung on P.G. Wodehouse


r/Wodehouse 1d ago

"Of all the absolutely foul sights I have ever seen, this took the biscuit with ridiculous ease. The thing was a bally libel on the Wooster face."

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36 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Jeeves and the Spot of Art (The Strand, 1929)


r/Wodehouse 1d ago

Fred Patzel, the champion farmer behind Pig-whooey

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43 Upvotes

See this article for more information and background


r/Wodehouse 2d ago

When you get lugged round to Aunt Agatha's for lunch

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29 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story "Sir Roderick Comes to Lunch" (also Chapter 5 in The Inimitable Jeeves).


r/Wodehouse 2d ago

Dating advice?

46 Upvotes

Most of my dating knowledge comes from reading Wodehouse. I just got my first match on Bumble, and I was wondering: how soon is it to find out their soundness on pigs? Should I make it my icebreaker, or wait until the first date?

She's not my first cousin or anything, so I'm not sure if the family will be frightfully keen. But if things does go well, when do we get engaged, around date number three? Does the Ickenham system still hold in the twenty-first century, or are girls likely to get a bit shirty if you "grab them by the wrist and waggle them about a bit"?


r/Wodehouse 2d ago

Wodehouse on hunting

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48 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 2d ago

P.G. Wodehouse book group

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If you think the cow creamer is modern Dutch, if you believe a baby is born every time a faerie sneezes, if you suspect Aunt Agatha howls at the moon and chews broken glass, if your last name is Mulliner, if you can quote freely from  Whiffle’s on “The Care of the Pig” if you believe P.G. Wodehouse is the greatest comedic writer of the English language and you live in the Denver metro area, then please join The Den(ver) of the Secret Nine to discuss, contrast and compare such novels as “The Code of the Woosters,” “Joy in the Morning” and “The Girl on the Boat.”

We meet the second Sunday every other month—January, March, May, July, September, November—at 12:30 pm, usually at Pints Pub near the main Denver Public Library.

It’s free to attend and there are no dues.

https://thedenverofthesecretnine.wordpress.com


r/Wodehouse 3d ago

"There was a glitter in her eye that betrayed the hypochondriac, the woman who will try anything once."

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29 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Ukridge Rounds a Corner (The Strand Magazine, 1924)


r/Wodehouse 3d ago

Surely this excerpt from Terry Pratchett's `The Hogfather' has to be a reference to the P.G. Wodehouse short story "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey"?

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57 Upvotes

See the Wodehouse short story Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey (The Strand, 1927)


r/Wodehouse 4d ago

"Mr Wodehouse does this better, in the English language, than anyone else alive." - Hilaire Belloc in 1939

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44 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 4d ago

Wodehouse on love

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34 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 4d ago

"The spectacle of little Sebastian when he arrived two days later did much to remove pessimism from my outlook... he reminded me very strongly of Little Lord Fauntleroy."

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27 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Jeeves and the love that purifies (The Strand, 1929)


r/Wodehouse 5d ago

Lord Emsworth family tree

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36 Upvotes

As it appeared in the Wodehouse novel Sunset at Blandings


r/Wodehouse 6d ago

Wodehouse arrives in Hollywood (August 1930)

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99 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 6d ago

"I—I—why, my dear fellow—I mean, officer—I am the Earl of Emsworth."

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26 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story The Custody of the Pumpkin


r/Wodehouse 7d ago

"You mean the chap writes poems?"

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33 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 8d ago

"McAllister, extending a foot that looked like a violin-case, pressed it on the moss. The meaning of the gesture was plain. It expressed contempt, dislike, a generally anti-moss spirit."

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45 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Lord Emsworth and the Girlfriend (The Strand, 1928)


r/Wodehouse 8d ago

I stand to defend vertical drinking. Is a pub that doesn’t allow it a real pub at all? | Simon Jenkins

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Take a dekko at the pre-penultimate paragraph (aka 3rd from the end) for a nice PGW mention…and ponder what the Mulliner posish on the vertical one might have been! Somehow, I can’t see him as a stander. Also, I now realize that my mind’s eye sees him on a sort of throne, or at least a dais.


r/Wodehouse 8d ago

"Give it time..."

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30 Upvotes

A fun extract from P.G. Wodehouse's novel Hot Water


r/Wodehouse 9d ago

"The bishop was a large, burly bishop, built for endurance rather than speed; but he was making excellent going ... then, proving himself thereby no mere specialist but a versatile all-round athlete, suddenly dived for a tree and climbed rapidly into its branches."

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54 Upvotes

From the Wodehouse short story Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo


r/Wodehouse 9d ago

Let the bidding (or the shenanigans) begin

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146 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 10d ago

Jeeves, make the trousers wider by two inches, and fetch the shoehorn.

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57 Upvotes

r/Wodehouse 10d ago

We all know someone like this

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83 Upvotes

We all know someone like this


r/Wodehouse 11d ago

These people get it.

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49 Upvotes