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Bertie Wooster comes out of 21 Club late one night and sees Oofy Prosser staring intently at the pavement out front. What's up? I lost my favourite collar stu
by raganwald 17y ago
Bertie Wooster comes out of 21 Club late one night and sees Oofy Prosser staring intently at the pavement out front.
What's up?
I lost my favourite collar stud.
Right here?
No, somewhere down the street.
Then why are you looking for it here?
The light's better over here.
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That being said, Bayesian Search works a little like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory
- hugh3 17y agoSlightly off-topic: any idea if that was originally by PG Wodehouse? I've heard it in a zillion forms but never with Bertie Wooster.
- altano 17y agoLooks like all the other Wodehouseisms from the show... shrug
- raganwald 17y agoNo, I like Wodehouse, so I used Bertie and Oofy in my retelling of the joke. But I'm pretty sure it's much, much older. I don't actually recall it occurring in any of the short stories, novels, or Fry and Laurie dramatizations.
- hugh3 17y agoAh, fair enough. I like PG Wodehouse too, which is why I asked. I can't claim to have read all the books though; I'm trying to space them out over a decade or so of long plane journeys.