I think the key mistake writers make when trying to emulate Douglas Adams is that they try to emulate Douglas Adams himself and not Wodehouse, who Adams channelled gloriously, but in spaaace.

"You probably consider that you are being broadminded, but you want to be careful how you let that so-called broadmindedness grow on you. It is apt to become mere moral myopia."
The Mating Season
P. G. Wodehouse
#Wodehouse

An underused word for your consideration: "scug" - a Victorian schoolboy insult denoting a pushy, slovenly, morally undeveloped slacker with bad manners and far too high an opinion of himself.
(All that in one syllable! If that's not 19th century efficiency I don't know what is.)

If it's good enough to be employed by those most worthy knights P. G. Wodehouse and Terry Pratchett, I deem it good enough for us. I use it myself. Care to join me?
#scug #insults #Wodehouse #Pratchett

Evening

#Plum shrub cocktail we call the #Wodehouse

Roderick Spode is P. G. Wodehouse's send-up of British fascist Oswald Mosley. Mosley founded the Black Shirts; Spode founded the Black Shorts ("there were no shirts left.").
Is it just me, or have I seen that salute somewhere recently?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ShRf1svMcuA
#Spode #fascism #salute #ElonMusk #uspol #Wodehouse

Reading Uncle Fred in the Springtime, one of Wodehouse’s non-Jeeves books. It is of course amusing so far, but it does have some casual black face. Very English imperial, the aristocracy love dressing up as their conquered subjects.

Published at the beginning of WW2.

What a marvellous writer is PG Wodehouse. There's something just right about this passage, the words dance along.

I'm a quiet, peaceful sort of bloke who has lived all his life in London, and I can't stand the pace these swift sportsmen from the rural districts set. What I mean to say is, I'm all for rational enjoyment and so forth, but I think a chappie makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan.

P.G. Wodehouse,
Carry on, Jeeves (1925)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65974/pg65974-images.html

"And if any young writer with a gift for being funny has got the idea that there is something undignified and anti-social about making people laugh, let him read this from the Talmud, a book which, one may remind him, was written in an age just as grim as this one.

'...And Elijah said to Berokah, "These two will also share in the world to come." Berokah then asked them, "What is your occupation?" They replied, "We are merrymakers. When we see a person who is downhearted, we cheer him up."'

from Over Seventy by P. G. Wodehouse
#humour #humor #Wodehouse #Talmud

I'm re-reading The Inimitable Jeeves by PG Wodehouse. This snippet comes as Bertie Wooster has been dragged to a tea-and-bun shop by his pal Bingo, who's in love with the waitress:

@SirNameless_1 I’ve got screenshots of the two pages of that scene from my Kindle version saved away on my phone, as a bit of an emergency mood elevator. “The whole thing was more than a bit like Christmas dinner on Devils Island.” Love it. #Wodehouse

The novel that introduces us to the incomparable Jeeves!
#jeeves #jeevesandwooster #pgwodehouse #wodehouse #thankyoujeeves #newpurchase #midureads #comedy #humor

Now free for all to read... I'm a fan of the humourist author PG Wodehouse, and have occasionally visited places connected with his life and work. Here are four of them:

Looking for Wodehouse https://www.patreon.com/posts/102494363

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #Humour #Fiction #Travel @bookstodon

I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare--or, if not, it's some equally brainy bird--who says that it's always just when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with the bit of lead piping. And what I'm driving at is that the man is perfectly right.

P.G. Wodehouse,
Carry on, Jeeves (1925)

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65974/pg65974-images.html

#Wodehouse #LeadPiping
#BertieIsRight

New at my Patreon... I'm a fan of the humourist author PG Wodehouse, and have occasionally visited places connected with his life and work. Here are four of them:

Looking for Wodehouse https://www.patreon.com/posts/looking-for-102494363

The end of Daylight Saving Time last night emphasised that it's definitely Autumn here, but happily it's ALWAYS Springtime at Blandings and Uncle Fred in Springtime is the perfect mood lifter for the newly dark autumn nights.
#AmReading @bookstodon #Wodehouse

Dennis Romano's "VENICE - The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City" was a remarkable read: 600 pages to cover 1200 years of political cupidity. Very glad I read it, but in need of a palate cleanser. And of course, "palate cleanser" is spelled with THREE letters

P
G
W

So even though it's Autumn not Spring up here near the top of the world, this is my current read

#AmReading @bookstodon #Wodehouse

A fun bit I just read in The Mating Season by PG Wodehouse...

#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #Book #Books @bookstodon