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Today we remember comic genius P.G. Wodehouse, who passed away on Valentine’s Day in 1975. via Plum Sauce: A P.G. Wodehouse Companion, “Suspension of Disbelief,” Select postulates for relaxed reading of P.G. Wodehouse: All small dogs bite your ankles. All babies are hideously ugly. All small boys are fiends. All aunts are hell, except Bertie’s Aunt Dahlia. All butlers have port in their pantries. Old nannies are a menace. They know too much. Drunk men can be very funny. Most handsome men have feet of clay. No decent man may cancel, or even refuse, an engagement to a girl. Rose gardens turn a girl on.

Today we remember comic genius P.G. Wodehouse, who passed away on Valentine’s Day in 1975.

via Plum Sauce: A P.G. Wodehouse Companion, “Suspension of Disbelief,” Select postulates for relaxed reading of P.G. Wodehouse:

  1. All small dogs bite your ankles.
  2. All babies are hideously ugly.
  3. All small boys are fiends.
  4. All aunts are hell, except Bertie’s Aunt Dahlia.
  5. All butlers have port in their pantries.
  6. Old nannies are a menace. They know too much.
  7. Drunk men can be very funny.
  8. Most handsome men have feet of clay.
  9. No decent man may cancel, or even refuse, an engagement to a girl.
  10. Rose gardens turn a girl on.
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