arnesw is right. I just saw an episode where he removes it to look at the time.
Thanks for cites. The sites, that is.
Isn’t that first photo from the children’s carnival egg-and-spoon event where it was found that, contrary to all respect of the purity of the turf, one of entrants had been nobbled by being fed copious amounts of cake?
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Nm. Finger twitchy triple post.
Unless I forget a major sticking point with Jeeves, my guess is that it’s not a monocle. My reasoning starts from Oofie Prosser’s monocle, which is a significant part of his description. This is in contradistinction to Bertie’s general sartorial fashion sense, although one must bear in mind his frequent misreadings of the social climate. In further contradistinction, if that’s the word I want, Bertie’s code, like that of all of his clan, is to never let down a pal, which includes handing over a quid or so. (Oofy, on the other hand, had moths living in his wallet.)
As we know, Bertie drew the line when touched for a thousand, to pay for a production Florence Craye’s Spindrift. For those new to the biography of Bertie, Florence was a girl with whom he once had an “understanding,” but who tried to have him read Nietszche, whose views, as we know, are fundamentally unsound, which led to their romantic relationship being scuttled. However, to be true to the record, it must be said that Bertie was once conned out of a thousand of the best after hearing the piteous story of a soi-disant man of the cloth who fraudulently claimed he had lost a pearl necklace.
- Readers unfamiliar with brief recounts of the works and days of Wodehouse’s characters will quickly find that in such cases it is comme il faut to affect Wodehouse’s style. The pleasure in giving niceties of English language such a thorough workout often entices the re-teller of his tales to run on, bringing in supernumerary characters or minutiae, which leaves the reader in more befuddlement than before.
** Wodehouse himself would spend weeks working out his plots, but would just bang out the books or stories when actually writing. For most of his fans, it takes a hell of a lot of time to write just a few grafs, I think due primarily to the grammatical precision required.
Well, if that’s true, one of the oldest and memorable Jewish jokes–and surely the most memorable when adapted for quotidian use–will not work or must be adjusted.
But since people don’t wear vest or pocket watches any more the joke often has to be explained, which means its days are numbered. It has out-hoaried itself.
Half a league,
Half a league,
Half a league onward.
With a hey nonnie nonnie
and a hot-cha-cha.
The item in question is a pocket watch strap, known as an Albert Strap.
It can be clearly seen in use during Jeeves & Wooster series 1 episode 1 when Berty Wooster is arranging a rendezvous with Honoria Glossop.
Similar straps are available on ebay for about a Tenner.
Pip Pip!
Algy.