Nothing can brighten your day more than a good old P.G. Wodehouse quote. I'd go into all the details of Plum's volumnious career, but no doubt he shall be featured one of these days as a linquist of the week on the MOV. Details thus spared, I'll provide you with a few favorites.
""What ho!'' I said.
"What ho!'' said Monty.
"What ho! What ho!''
"What ho! What ho! What ho!''
After that it seemed rather difficult to go on with the conversation."
"Chumps always make the best husbands. When you marry, Sally, grab a chump. Tap his head first, and if it rings solid, don't hesitate. All the unhappy marriages come from husbands having brains. What good are brains to a man? They only unsettle him."
"The only thing that prevented a father's love from faltering was the fact that there was in his possession a photograph of himself at the same early age, in which he, too, looked like a homicidal fried egg."
"I can detach myself from the world. If there is a better world to detach oneself from than the one functioning at the moment I have yet to hear of it."
"He settled down to dictate a letter to the Consolidated Nailfile and Eyebrow Tweezer Corporation of Scranton, Pa., which would make them realize that life is stern and earnest and Nailfile and Eyebrow Tweezer Corporations are not put in this world for pleasure alone."
"Alf Todd,'' said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, ``has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.''
"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French."
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FIRST COMMENT!! I LOVE the one about the husbands brain...Loretta, instead of a heathen you could just go for that!!
The inimitable Plum, eh? Yes, we'll be sure to tell Miss Lanning to knock all prospective worshippers on the bean before consenting to be their sweetheart.
M.
Forget that I called you a dish-faced moron!
-But you didn't!
Oh? Well I meant to...
He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say "when!"
He trusted neither of them as far as he could spit, and he was a poor spitter, lacking both distance and control.
``I've always treated the man with unremitting kindness, and if he won't do a little thing like this for me, I'll kick his spine through his hat.''
*sighs in admiration*
Where there's smoke, there's coke. ----late 2002 East Lansing proverb
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