Wodehouse Appreciation Page on the Internet

Sushila Peterson has forwarded an article from the New Yorker magazine of December 6, 1999, detailing "an idiosyncratic list of some our favorite Web sites." The list is capped by a description of "The P. G. Wodehouse Appreciation Page". This is a web site created by TWSer Tom Kreitzberg, and a jolly good site it is, too. Here is how New Yorker author Sean Elder describes it. --AD

Like the Drones Club, where P. G. Wodehouse's befuddled hero Bertie Wooster repairs to toss biscuits with his friends and escape the company of women--especially aunts--this lovingly obsessive site is a gathering place for kindred souls. Aside from logging on for the seemingly endless links to all things Plum, fans come to take the interactive Quizlet (Q: Whom would you ask to hand-deliver a critical and highly sensitive letter: Gussie Fink-Nottle, Bingo Little, Dahlia Travers, or Bertie Wooster?), to tell their favorite Jeeves or Blandings saga, or to recall how they got to know the author ("Years ago I fell madly in love with a young woman who would NOT shut up about Wodehouse. I read his work assiduously. I never said thank you."). Though renown of Bertie's butler, Jeeves, has spread even to those unfamiliar with the canon, only a few can quote Wodehouse at will. Hence the pleasure of the "random quotation" feature, which generates such gems as "Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum."