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- From: kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian)
- Subject: Re: Extracts
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 01:57:13 GMT
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- In article <C1FEpp.J3F@news2.cis.umn.edu>,
- rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella) writes:
-
- |> > Incidentally, for die-hard Bertie and Jeeves fans, who was Bertie's valet
- |> > before he hired Jeeves?
- |>
- |> Bingley, wasn't it?
-
- No. Meadowes. Here's some relevant low-down (from "Jeeves Takes Charge").
-
- "I had found Meadowes, the fellow I had taken to Easeby with me, sneaking my
- silk socks, a thing no bloke of spirit could stick at any price. It
- transpiring, moreover, that he had looted a lot of other things here and there
- about the place, I was reluctantly compelled to hand the misguided blighter the
- mitten and go to London to ask the registry office to dig up another specimen
- for my approval. They sent me Jeeves."
-
- |> > And who did Jeeves work for before Bertie?
- |>
- |> Lord Worplesdon?
-
- Right. Apart from excellent references, it was the famous pick-me-up concoction
- that delivered the goods and launched Jeeves' career with Bertie.
-
- For those interested in the secret recipe of Jeeves' pick-me-up, here it is.
-
- "It is a preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcester Sauce that gives
- it its colour. The raw egg makes it nutritious. The red pepper gives it its
- bite. Gentlemen have found it extremely invigorating after a late evening."
-
- -kannan
-
- "I'm not much of a ladies' man, but on this particular morning it seemed to me
- that what I really wanted was some charming girl to buzz up and ask me to save
- her from assassins or something."
-