Because we need things like this

[ksmith]

Quotes from the works of PG Wodehouse. Hit refresh for a new quote.

`If I had my life to live again, Jeeves, I would start it as an orphan without any aunts. Don't they put aunts in Turkey in sacks and drop them in the Bosphorus?'

you, Jeeves, and you may quote me as saying this: Behind every poor, innocent, harmless blighter who is going down for the third time in the soup you will find, if you look carefully enough, the aunt who shoved him into it.'

they are all alike. Sooner or later, out pops the cloven hoof.'

And more: It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

And again: My Aunt Dahlia has a carrying voice... If all other sources of income failed, she could make a good living calling the cattle home across the Sands of Dee. Jeeves and Song of Songs (1930)

Oh criminy, this is priceless: My personal animosity against a writer never affects my opinion of what he writes. Nobody could be more anxious than myself, for instance, that Alan Alexander Milne should trip over a loose bootlace and break his bloody neck, yet I re-read his early stuff at regular intervals with all the old enjoyment.

Comments

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

And to think that the physical incarnation of Bertie now pops Vicodin, snarls at his underlings and diagnoses obscure diseases on Fox. Amazing, innit?

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I haven't yet watched House. I fear I'd keep expecting Laurie to entone a dour "Pip pip. Cheerio." I almost wish Stephen Fry would make a guest appearance.

It's amazing how actors can alter their faces just with expression. When I first saw clips of House, the fact that it was Hugh Laurie didn't register right away. The heavy-lidded gaze and the scowl, Bertie's face turned upside-down.

And now he's older, all that rangy, brunet goodness just sort of pops out.

[hoosier-red.livejournal.com]

Purty much, yes. And you haven't lived until you've listened to a British actor playing an American doctor pretending to be a British doctor with a really fake accent. It was so meta.

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

Barmy went to the door and opened it sharply. There came the unmistakable sound of a barmaid falling downstairs

First attempt at the lucky grab...it's almost impossible to go wrong with this thing:-)

There was a good one, which I didn't try to copy until too late, about something happening with the convulsive motion of a Pekinese swallowing a pill, which seemed especially apt as my cat is currently on a regimen of daily thyroid pills and occasional other things. (So little doggies taking pills seems almost familiar, and about the correct size critter)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I love the quote about AA Milne that I stuffed into the main post.

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

Oooh! I'd missed that one, first time around. Glad to have revisited, and made its acquaintence!