BS: The Code of the Woosters

Subject: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 11:02 AM

I used to think this was the funniest depiction of fascism, until along comes the BNP...

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: Emma B
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 11:15 AM

Lol - does D H have a ladies lingerie shop too?

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 09:43 PM

Sorry I thought you said woofters.

eric

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: alanabit
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 05:48 AM

Bertie Wooster wasn't a Fascist. He was an upper class twit. Roderick Spode was the Fascist.

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: alanabit
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 05:49 AM

Was that the book in which a paragraph began, "It is not possible to combine dignified sauntering with tripping over a cat..."?

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 05:59 AM

I never said Bertie was a Fascist, horrors!!!!
Yes, he trips over the cat leaving the antique shop after running into Watkyn Baset and company.

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: alanabit
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 06:07 AM

I must read it again. What does BNP stand for - Brutal Nazi Pillocks?

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 06:24 AM

Or British Nazi Party, though members seem to think the N stands for National.

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: fat B****rd
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 06:36 AM

Read them all in 1965. Upper class twit but likable, our Bertie.

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: Le Scaramouche
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 07:32 AM

Death, where is thy jolly old sting?

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 12:15 PM

Yes, of course, Roderick Spode, founder of the Black Shorts. In addition to his innate brutality, he had the stupidity to be in love with Madeleine Basset, the one who thought a baby was born every time a fairy blew its nose.

Life was simpler then.

I thoroughly enjoy the writing of P.G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse produced some of the most remarkable sentences in the English language.

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 01:42 PM

A recorded book version of that is on sale for a few days at Audible.com. I saw it in my email yesterday. That's the one with the cow creamer, right? Funniest thing I'd seen in a long time when I saw the Hugh Laurie/Stephen Fry version of it.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: robomatic
Date: 10 Aug 05 - 01:48 PM

Hugh Laurie, who depicts Bertie in the BBC series, has bowled me over with his fierce presentation as "HOUSE" here in the states. The islands are certainly fielding some fine, fine actors these days.

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 11 Aug 05 - 12:00 AM

Yes, SRS, the cow creamer came into one of the books featuring the opprobrious Spode. We listened to the book once during a long, long ride. How it made the miles pass!

There are other books with Spode in them.

Subject: RE: BS: The Code of the Woosters
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 11 Aug 05 - 08:07 PM

Robo,

The Islands, as you call them, have been producing the world's finest actors for the last 500 years.

Don T.