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Ha, Ha, Ha! Jerome Klapka Jerome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_K._Jerome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_K._Jerome) is one of my favourite authors
by rramadass 4y ago
Ha, Ha, Ha!
Jerome Klapka Jerome (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_K._Jerome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_K._Jerome) is one of my favourite authors. For those folks unfamiliar with his works Project Gutenberg is a great resource https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173 Start with "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" and go from there.
Just make sure that you are not eating/drinking while reading his books and have somebody monitoring you in case you collapse from pure laughter :-)
- pjc50 4y ago> Klapka I've known of "Three Men In A Boat" since childhood and it never occurred to me to ask what his middle name was, or that it might be this surprising.
- hprotagonist 4y agoI’d half thought that the K stood for K!
- rramadass 4y agoFor me it was the other way around; We had the episode "Uncle Podger Hangs a Picture" from Three Men in a Boat as a chapter in our English textbook and i remember our Teacher explicitly mentioning his middle name as "Klapka" since it was such an odd name. If you like old genteel British Humour, you should also checkout Stephen Potter's (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Potter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Potter) series of books on Gamesmanship. Unfortunately Project Gutenberg doesn't seem to carry them and so you might have to get a hard copy. The classic movie School for Scoundrels (1960) based on these books is available on Internet Archive at https://archive.org/details/SchoolForScoundrels1959 https://archive.org/details/SchoolForScoundrels1959