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  • I have only ever heard it pronounced in a wodehousian way ...

    So, how many Lib Dems did the BBC phone to get an anti-Ming quote? Stephen Tall 2007

  • mr stillingfleet spied this curious little headline hidden away in the back pages of the guardian yesterday and pointed it out to me over tea and scones at boffin hq. its deliciously wodehousian details were so intriguing i had to find out more...

    Archive 2008-10-01 Bluestocking 2008

  • mr stillingfleet spied this curious little headline hidden away in the back pages of the guardian yesterday and pointed it out to me over tea and scones at boffin hq. its deliciously wodehousian details were so intriguing i had to find out more...

    dry cleaners to the rescue... Bluestocking 2008

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  • The Ecomomist: 'European snobbery about money permeates the books. Villains are frequently showy arrivistes. Old money is good. A gift (as opposed to gainful employment) allows his best friend, Captain Haddock, to buy back his family’s ancestral mansion. The captain takes to castle life with relish. Enriched by a treasure find, he swaps his seaman’s uniform for an increasingly Wodehousian wardrobe involving cravats, tweeds and at one point a monocle.'

    January 17, 2009