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- From: offenberg@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joel Offenberg)
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 13:45:00 GMT
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- In article <AMATHUR.93Jan21120006@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu>, amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes...
- >Hi fellow Wodehouseians (Only proposed term so far)
-
- I think I prefer Wodehousemates :)
-
- >Typical characters : Aunts (either the kind that eat barbed wire (a la Aunt Agatha)
- > or the fun kind (Aunt Dahlia)
- > I hope I didn't get my aunts mixed up)
- > Uncles (Typically strange - Lord Emsworth)
- Two kinds of uncles, strange but clueless (Lord Emsworth)
- and publicly odd (Pongo Twistleton-Twistleton's uncle Fred, Earl of something).
-
- > Protagonists (Usually the Wooster kind
- > How exactly would one describe them ?)
- Feckless. (I'm not quite sure what the dictonary definition is,
- but it has a picture of Bertie Wooster next to it).
-
- Joel
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