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- From: ghouse@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Mujtaba Ghouse)
- Subject: Jeeves attacking a cop (was Re: Pitchfork?)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.163811.6646@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 16:38:11 GMT
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- phil@Shiva.COM (Phil Budne) writes:
- >I can swear I've read the story about J&W going to N.Y. The ending I
- >recall is completely different (Aunt Agatha turns out to have been an
- >old music hall singer). I was shocked by the Jeeves' behavior in the
- >last story of the recent series (beaning a cop), and can't help
- >wondering if that story hadn't been tampered with as well!
-
- It is in the book: at the end of `The Mating Game,' to be precise,
- although the TV plots seem a simplified combination of several
- stories. Pity, really.
-
- I've read a J&W story in which they go to NY and have to stop Bassington-
- Bassington from pursuing a life on the stage, and the ending was quite
- different from the BBC/PBS version, but I don't remember anything about
- Aunt Agatha being an ex-singer.
-
- re: Jeeves assaulting a policeman, again. It seems to me that there are
- several places where Jeeves has been willing to do something unpleasant
- for the sake of the greater good, such as telling someone else to commit
- assault, or theft, or spreading lies about Bertie's actions (claiming
- that Bertie was insane, or that Bertie was the one who had marooned
- the Right Hon. Filmer on an island with a maddened swan, for example)
- resulting in Bertie having to flee from Aunt Agatha. Of course, this
- was always the lesser of two evils.
-
- -Mujtaba Ghouse
- "Somewhere else, the tea is getting cold."
-