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- From: udaya@portia.rice.edu (Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
- Subject: The Junior Ganymede
- Message-ID: <C1IzyM.GLJ@rice.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 18:42:21 GMT
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- 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?
-
-
- (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!)
-