Alt.Fan.Wodehouse hits a milestone.

Rao Akella

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Aug 23, 1993, 4:03:25 PM8/23/93

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According to my news-server, this should be the 1000th article on this
newsgroup (your mileage may vary). It took about 7 months to reach the
four-figure article number.

As the ninth Earl of Emsworth would say, "Capital! Capital!"

-- Rao Akella <r...@cccs.umn.edu, rao%mo...@umnacvx.bitnet>

Charles Bishop

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Aug 25, 1993, 12:08:43 PM8/25/93

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Is there a prize for th1001th posting?

Gally

Rao Akella

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Aug 25, 1993, 4:46:04 PM8/25/93

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In article <cbishopC...@netcom.com>, cbi...@netcom.com (Charles Bishop) writes:
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> Is there a prize for th1001th posting?

Roly-poly pudding (with jam)? An opportunity to feed the Empress a potato(e)?
Anatole's dinner at Brinkley Court, Brinkley-cum-Snodsfield-in-the-Marsh,
Worcestershire? One of Jeeves' morning tissue restorers? Take your pick...
:-)

Charles Bishop

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Aug 25, 1993, 7:36:12 PM8/25/93

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In article <CCC21...@news2.cis.umn.edu> r...@cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella) writes:
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>In article <cbishopC...@netcom.com>, cbi...@netcom.com (Charles Bishop) writes:
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>> Is there a prize for th1001th posting?
>
>Roly-poly pudding (with jam)? An opportunity to feed the Empress a potato(e)?
>Anatole's dinner at Brinkley Court, Brinkley-cum-Snodsfield-in-the-Marsh,
>Worcestershire? One of Jeeves' morning tissue restorers? Take your pick...
>:-)

I'll take Anatole's dinner at Brinkley court, but only if I don't have to
do a little favor for Auntie.

Gally cbi...@netocm.com

Rao Akella

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Aug 26, 1993, 6:50:48 PM8/26/93

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In article <cbishopC...@netcom.com>, cbi...@netcom.com (Charles Bishop) writes:
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> I'll take Anatole's dinner at Brinkley court, but only if I don't have to
> do a little favor for Auntie.

What?! You wouldn't swipe, say, a cow-creamer for a stab at Anatole's dinner?
Come, come, is this the famous fighting spirit the Woosters displayed at
Agincourt and other such jolly parties? Tush, pish, stronger men than you have
had their knees turn to jelly when confronted with the prospect of being
banished from the Travers' dinner table. Had Anatole heard you, I'm sure he
would've thrown a fit and decided to return home!

Jayant Murthy

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Aug 27, 1993, 8:10:37 AM8/27/93

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In article <CCE2G...@news2.cis.umn.edu> r...@cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella) writes:
>banished from the Travers' dinner table. Had Anatole heard you, I'm sure he
>would've thrown a fit and decided to return home!
>
>-- Rao Akella <r...@cccs.umn.edu, rao%mo...@umnacvx.bitnet>
>

I don't think Anatole can ever return to a place where he had once been due
to his propensity for affairs of the heart. In fact, I am amazed that
complications never arose at the Travers' domicile. Or perhaps they did
but never rose past the butler's (his name is on the t.o.m.t.) port sessions
Given Anatole's gallic temperament, an unlikely scenario.

Jayant Murthy (mur...@pha.jhu.edu)

Simon Hart

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Aug 27, 1993, 7:54:59 AM8/27/93

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I'll even do the favours for Auntie. The very thought of Anatoles cooking makes
the old TB's tingle rather. Gastric juices are positively seething in expectation!

Simon Hart
ha...@sst.icl.co.uk

D. Anton Sherwood

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Aug 28, 1993, 4:01:11 AM8/28/93

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In article <25ktjt...@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> murt...@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Jayant Murthy) writes:
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>... complications never arose at the Travers' domicile. Or perhaps they did

>but never rose past the butler's (his name is on the t.o.m.t.) port sessions

Daniel H. Garrison's WHO'S WHO IN WODEHOUSE (International Polygonics, 1989;
ISBN 1-55882-087-6) has these entries for Travers butlers:

MURGATROYD buttled at Brinkley before Pomeroy, as recalled by Bertie Wooster's
Aunt Agatha in "The Code of the Woosters", where he is described as stoutish,
with a face like a more than usually respectable archbishop; pinched a fish
slice [what *is* a fish slice?], put it up the spout [=pawned it?] and
squandered the proceeds at the dog races.

(No entry for Pomeroy.)

SEPPINGS, Aunt Dahlia's butler at Brinkley in "Right Ho, Jeeves", "The Code
of the Woosters", "Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit", "How Right You Are, Jeeves
(Jeeves in the Offing)", "Much Obliged, Jeeves (Jeeves and the Tie that Binds)".

Sir Roderick GLOSSOP ... [in "How Right You Are"] he visits Brinkley Court in
the role of Swordfish, a substitute butler, in order to observe Willie Cream.
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Anton Sherwood DAS...@netcom.com
+1 415 267 0685 1800 Market St #207, San Francisco, California 94102

Anne Cotton

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Aug 30, 1993, 10:36:35 AM8/30/93

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Fish slice: piece of (undoubtedly sterling) silver, used to
slice fish and serve same at table. Must have pawned for a
tidy sum, even before silver prices hit their current
astronomical levels. (If it was gold, a VERY tidy sum indeed.)

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Doug Faunt N6TQS 510-655-8604

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Sep 1, 1993, 8:52:43 PM9/1/93

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You should look at your numbers. I see yours as being the 1000th, and
you're on the same server I am.

Jayant Murthy

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Sep 2, 1993, 7:45:12 AM9/2/93

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In article <FAUNT.93S...@netcom2.Netcom.COM> fa...@netcom2.Netcom.COM (Doug Faunt N6TQS 510-655-8604) writes:
>You should look at your numbers. I see yours as being the 1000th, and
>you're on the same server I am.

I must have been deprived of some scintillating prose. I only see 691
articles posted (even though I think that I got the earliest messages).

Jayant Murthy

Simon Hart

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Sep 3, 1993, 3:15:06 AM9/3/93

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Sorry folks, Jayant's comes up as #771. Seems like there is a little variance in
the natural order of things!!!

Simon Hart

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