...17:14 Joi Martedì 23 Settembre 04:17 Joi Martedì 23 Settembre 18:14 Joi +1 Martedì 23 Settembre 05:17 Joi +1 Mercoledì 24 Settembre 00:45 Joi -- Lady of the Rings Il ritorno del figliol prodigo è quasi proverbialmente legato a effervescenti manifestazioni di gioia da parte dell'intera compagnia con, forse, la sola eccezione del vitello ingrassato. (Pelham Grenville Wodehouse)

... differently to what you would expect. Like: Cholmondely - "Chumley" Featherstonehaugh - "Fanshaw" Cockburn - "Coburn" Grosvenor - "Grovenor" Mainwaring - "Mannering" Marjoribanks - "Marshbanks" Home - "Hyoom" St John - "Sinjen" Wodehouse - "Woodhouse" ..I see - LOL. The ever occurring thing again, then.. :-D -- Josef

...those weird names that are pronounced totally differently to what you would expect. Like: Cholmondely - "Chumley" Featherstonehaugh - "Fanshaw" Cockburn - "Coburn" Grosvenor - "Grovenor" Mainwaring - "Mannering" Marjoribanks - "Marshbanks" Home - "Hyoom" St John - "Sinjen" Wodehouse - "Woodhouse" -- Enzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

... find examples of good works of art both with and without such a purpose in pretty nearly every medium with much of a history. (I defy you to find a rhetorical purpose in the fictions of P. G. Wodehouse, for example, and if there was such a purpose in _Pride and Prejudice_ it is now hard to see) As to the second group, it is all too common that art whose primary purpose is rhetorical is ...

Mick Fanner wrote: On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:25:47 +0000, Enzo Matrix wrote: I'll give most things a go. I can't guarantee that I'll finish them though. Indeed. I have, for many years, been halfway through The Illiad and about one third of the way through Ulysses. Try some PG Wodehouse. -- Enzo I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.

..., sarà cane o gatto ne sono invece esclusi? ^___^ Non verranno, resteranno a casa a vegliare (Joker, pastore tedesco), a tentare di scardinare il frigo (Jeeves, intrepido micio di quattro mesi che non ha nulla del suo ineffabile omonimo creato da Wodehouse) e a poltrire (Gattina bebè). smile ^_____^ fabio Chiara & Emanuele & Joker & Bizet & Gattina Bebè & Jeeves

...I remember reading a Max Brand western where the hero is captured in chapter 2 and thrown in jail. Then we find out he routinely keeps lockpicks taped to the back of his neck, under the hairline. Like the line in Wodehouse. "Oh, we're really in the soup now." "Well, we would be, if I hadn't taken the sensibile routine business precaution of signing a false name to the lease." dave

... your throat, but will it be enough to overcome Scouting's long-term image problem? It has always struggled with its image. Like vicars, there is something intrinsically amusing about Scouts. PG Wodehouse certainly thought so. One of the characters in his first Jeeves and Wooster novel, written in 1923, is an overzealous Scout called Edwin who infuriates Bertie Wooster in his drive to do ...

daniel pennac <m.randa66@NOSPANhotmail.com> wrote: Bernie Wooster, no? Woodhouse quindi... dR Wodehouse ;-) E Bertie, non Bernie... Cesare -- Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; (I am large-I contain multitudes.) -- Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass"

...@tin.it> wrote: daniel pennac <m.randa66@NOSPANhotmail.com> wrote in message bc3953hbedemj5l8346obqgmtml6ojo57t@4ax.com... Io ieri, ma stasera mi aspettano Jeeves & Wooster, ci sono loro sul comodino, Stella, per ora, è sulla scrivania! Bernie Wooster, no? Woodhouse quindi... dR Wodehouse ;-) Sì! Chiara & Emanuele & Jocker & Bizet & Gattina Bebè