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Do you like Bertram Wooster?

>> No.17142637
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17142637

do u mock me

>> No.17142649
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17142649

u should not mock me

>> No.17142658
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i am a serious man

>> No.17142694
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>I cannot do with anymore education Jeeves! I was full up years ago!

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>Bertie: Tell me, Jeeves, were you always like this, or did it come on suddenly? Jeeves: Sir?
Bertie: The brain, the grey matter. Were you an outstandingly brilliant child? Jeeves: My mother thought me intelligent, Sir.
Bertie: Well, you can't go by that! My mother thought me intelligent!

>> No.17142895

kek enjoyable thread

>> No.17142912

>There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'

>> No.17142937

I remember once when he and I arrived at a country house where the going threatened to be sticky, Jeeves, as we alighted, murmured in my ear the words 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came, sir', and at the time I could make nothing of the crack. Subsequent inquiry, however, revealed that this Roland was one of those knights of the Middle Ages who spent their time wandering to and fro, and that on fetching up one evening at a dump known as the Dark Tower he had scratched the chin a bit dubiously, not liking the look of things.

>> No.17143063

Anyone who enjoys Pratchett or Douglas Adams really should have a go at Wodehouse. He tilled the same fields decades before they came along. It's all fluff, quite consciously, but enjoyable fluff.

>> No.17143370

>Bertrand "Bertie" Russell
Has a nice ring to it

>> No.17143387

I couldn't ever take him seriously again after hearing his voice.

He sounds like a squeaky and petulant dwarf.

>> No.17143411

>>17143063
Anyone who enjoys Pratchett or Douglas Adams needs to be stuffed into a gym locker.

>> No.17143416

Is there a better tv adaptation of anything than the the Fry and Laurie Jeeves and Wooster?

>> No.17143546

>>17143416
No

>> No.17143556

>>17143416
I don't think a decent adaption of any of Wodehouse's stuff is realistic. At best you get the bones of the plot and a few quips. The real joy of the thing is in Bertie Wooster's internal monologues.

>> No.17143679

>>17143556
Adaptations will always have their limits, but I do genuinely love the Fry and Laurie one.

>> No.17143720

>>17142619
Jesus dude this post is such a cope. You will never be as smart as Bertrand Russel so please just deal with it

>> No.17143772

>>17142742
kek

>> No.17144869

>>17142619
Where do I start with Jeeves and Wooster?

>> No.17145518

>>17144869
Literally anywhere, it's all fun