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- From: kring@efes.physik.uni-kl.de (Thomas Kettenring)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
- Subject: More Quotes
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 17:01:13 GMT
- Organization: FB Physik, Universitaet Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Lord Tidmouth in "Good Morning, Bill" (the play; there is a novel "Doctor
- Sally" based on it, or the other way round):
-
- I read an interesting thing the other day. It said the sardine's worst
- enemy was the halibut, and I give you my word that until I read it I didn't
- know the sardine *had* an enemy. And I don't mind telling you my opinion
- of the halibut has gone down considerably. Very considerably. Fancy
- anything wanting to bully a sardine.
-
-
-
- Bertie explains a not-so-hypothetical situation in "Jeeves And The Greasy
- Bird":
-
- [Jeeves:] "You would prefer to term the protagonists A and B."
- [Bertie:] "Or North and South?"
- "A and B is more customary, sir."
- "Just as you say. Well, A is male, B is female. You follow me so far?"
- "You have been lucidity itself, sir."
- [..]
- "Now until recently B was engaged to - "
- "Shall we call him C, sir?"
- "Caesar's as good a name as any, I suppose."
-
-
- BTW, who of you saw the one and only Wodehouse movie "A Damsel In Distress"
- starring Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, and George Burns?
-
- --
- thomas kettenring, 3 dan, kaiserslautern, germany
- Philosophy is the art of drawing conclusions from definitions that have been
- chosen so that one can draw the conclusions one would like to get.
- It immediately follows that philosophy is silly.
-