“I say, Oppy, that’s all a bit rich, dontcha think?”

What did Bertie Wooster get up to in WW2? An absolute corker of a Bluesky thread positing the kind of rummy adventures Bertie (and of course, Jeeves) would have had, including cracking the Enigma code, inspiring Oppenheimer, and stealing bunting with Brigadier Gussie Fink-Nottle. As someone who has read rather a lot of Wodehouse fanfiction of late, I’d happily read every single one of these.

Relatedly, some inimitable cove on Reddit has shared a very useful Jeeves and Wooster Compendium that includes a glossary of common terms and literary allusions. I think we can all agree that “See also: PIP-PIP, TINKERTY-TONK” is pure genius.

A screenshot of a glossary defining the term "Toodle-oo" as Goodbye, and suggesting the reader also look at the entries for PIP-PIP and TINKERTY-TONK

 

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