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Slightly off-topic: any idea if that was originally by PG Wodehouse? I've heard it in a zillion forms but never with Bertie Wooster.
by hugh3 17y ago
Slightly 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.