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1	Go read just about anything the man wrote. Still..
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3	[[index]]
4	* ''Funny/JeevesAndWooster''
5	** ''Funny/JeevesAndWoosterSeries'' (for the television adaptation specifically)
6	** Books with their own pages:
7	** ''Funny/ThankYouJeeves''
8	** ''Funny/TheCodeOfTheWoosters''
9	** ''Funny/RightHoJeeves''
10	** ''Funny/JeevesAndTheFeudalSpirit''
11	** ''Funny/JoyInTheMorning''
12	** ''Funny/StiffUpperLipJeeves''
13	** ''Funny/MuchObligedJeeves''
14	** ''Funny/AuntsArentGentlemen''
15	* ''Funny/BlandingsCastle''
16	* ''Funny/{{Psmith}}''
17	* ''Funny/ReggiePepper''
18	* ''Funny/{{Ukridge}}''
19	[[/index]]
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21	* The simple fact that there's a Wodehouse book (''Literature/LaughingGas'') with a summary that begins with the sentence "Dirty work in the Fourth Dimension was the cause of all the trouble".
22	* The poem [[http://wrecktangle.blogspot.co.uk/2004/08/printers-error-by-p-g-wodehouse.html "Printer's Error"]], which is about a writer who realises that the printer of his latest novel has made a disastrous typo.[[note]]"I'd written (which I thought quite good) / 'Ruth, ripening into womanhood, / Was now a girl who knocked men flat / And frequently got whistled at', / And some vile, careless, casual gook / Had spoiled the best thing in the book / By printing 'not' / (Yes,'not', great Scott!) / When I had written 'now'." [[/note]] He buys a gun and goes in search of the offending printer:
23	-->I know how easy errors are.\
24	But this time you have gone too far\
25	By printing "not" when you knew what\
26	I really wrote was "now".\
27	Prepare,' I said, 'to meet your God\
28	Or, as you'd say, your Goo or Bod,\
29	Or possibly your Gow.'
30	* From the preface to ''The Clicking of Cuthbert'', Wodehouse defends his accurately quoting Keats' mistake:
31	--> In the second chapter I allude to Stout Cortez staring at the Pacific. Shortly after the appearance of this narrative in serial form [in America], I received an anonymous letter containing the words, “You big stiff, it wasn’t Cortez, it was Balboa.” This, I believe, is historically accurate. On the other hand, if Cortez was good enough for Keats, he is good enough for me. Besides, even if it ''was'' Balboa, the Pacific was open for being stared at about that time, and I see no reason why Cortez should not have had a look at it as well.

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