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- Subject: Re: First!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.185758.46699@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- From: miner@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
- Date: 24 Jan 93 18:57:58 CST
- References: <1993Jan21.153903.46604@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1993Jan22.234529@IASTATE.EDU> <1993Jan23.162221.4765@cs.cornell.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan23.162221.4765@cs.cornell.edu>, aleta@cs.cornell.edu (Aleta Ricciardi) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan22.234529@IASTATE.EDU>, cffitzge@IASTATE.EDU (Charles F Fitzgerald) writes:
- > |> -Ken writes:
- > |> >(a) So you put the whole binge up to Jeeves and see if he can't
- > |> > scare up a happy ending somehow. Tell him my future is in his
- > |> > hands, and that, if the wedding bells ring out, he can rely on
- > |> > me, even unto half my kingdom. Well, call it ten quid.
- > |> > "What! I'm hanged if I do!"
- > |> > "And you call yourself a pal of mine!"
- > |> > "Yes, I know; but there are limits."
- > |> > "Bertie," said *****, reproachfully, "I saved your life once."
- > |> > "When?"
- > |> >(b) "Didn't I? It must have been some other fellow then..."
- > |>
- > |> Sounds abombidibly (sp) like _Code of the Woosters_ (one of my all time
- > |> favorites, I am sure) and even if it's not, it ought to be. Can't say
- > |> who said it, though. Maybe that preacher sort, who was to marry the
- > |> lass who had connections to the magistrate (not M. Basset, hang it, the
- > |> other one!)
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- <low, raucous buzz> Sorry!
- >
- > you're thinking of the reverend harold "stinker" pinker, betrothed to
- > stephanie "stiffy" bing.
- >
- > but for some reason, i think richard "bingo" little was the utterer...
- >
- > aleta
-
- Aleta has it; it was Bingo Little. What was the story? (Hint: in it,
- we learn something, though not much, in passing of Jeeves's amourous
- adventures...)
-
- -Ken
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