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- From: nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein)
- Subject: Re: The Junior Ganymede
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:51:24 GMT
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- Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626 (udaya@portia.rice.edu) wrote:
- :
- : Jeeves is known to belong to 'The Junior Ganymede'
- : club. Does anyone happen to know the reason for that name?
- : Is "Ganymede" some classical allusion- it would not
- : be surprising, considering the other classical
- : allusions in PGW's work?
- :
- : Any ideas?
-
- Ganymede was a sprightly young lad snatched up by an eagle, don't you
- know, and made to serve drinks at Zeus' cocktail parties. The first
- gentleman's gentleman, it would appear -- a creation almost as important as
- golf, what? Also a moon of Jupiter, for you chaps with your eyes on the skies.
-
- - Neil Bernstein
- Struggling Classics Major
-
- "I spit me of Nastikoff."
-
-
-
- : (I once went to a talk organized by the Houston
- : chapter of the Wodehouse Society. The speaker
- : was a retired colnel from the Britsh Army,
- : a chap by the name of N. T. P. Murphy
- : (author of "In Search of
- : Blandings"). He was wearing a "Jeeves" tie that
- : evening. When I asked him about it he told me that
- : there was a very select Dry Cleaner's in London
- : called "The Junior Ganymede". The "Jeeves" tie was
- : standard issue to all the employees!)
-
- Wow! I didn't know the Wodehouse Establishment was that
- commercialized...
-