Comments on: Jellied Eels

By: Belle Waring

Belle Waring — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:40:53 +0000

dammit, as you know bob! I just reread that story the other day, and was prepared to pounce on this comments thread like some…pouncing animal. let’s say, a puma. but it’s too late

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 18 May 2006 12:32:23 +0000

Thanks, John.

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Thu, 18 May 2006 07:36:11 +0000

No, she’s a bawd awright.

By: agm

agm — Thu, 18 May 2006 07:16:19 +0000

And then the bawd says: “Come your ways, follow me.”
Typo or drawl? Only the Shadow knows…

By: John Holbo

John Holbo — Thu, 18 May 2006 05:57:29 +0000

Barry, the eel quote is real. It’s from Shakespeare’s “Pericles”. Yentz’ David Hume quote, on the other hand …

Bob’s Wodehouse is great. Obviously it’s real.

By: Yentz Mahogany

Yentz Mahogany — Thu, 18 May 2006 04:12:21 +0000

“The passion for philosophy, like that for religion, seems liable to this inconvienience, that, though it aims at the correction of our manners, and extirpation of our vices, it may only serve, by imprudent management, to foster a predominant inclination, and push the mind, with more determined resolution, towards that side which already draws too much, by the bias and propensity to jelly eels.”—David Hume, Enquiry Section 5

Well I’ll be..

By: 'As you know' Bob

'As you know' Bob — Thu, 18 May 2006 03:15:17 +0000

… I found to my horror that a young man of whom I knew nothing was arranging to marry my daughter. I sent for him immediately, and found him to be quite impossible. He jellies eels!’

‘Does what?’

‘He is an assistant at a jellied eel shop.’

‘But surely,’ said Lord Ickenham, ‘that speaks well for him. The capacity to jelly an eel seems to me to argue intelligence of a high order. It isn’t everybody who can do it, by any means. I know if someone came to me and said ‘Jelly this eel!’ I should be nonplussed. And so, or I am very much mistaken, would Ramsay MacDonald and Winston Churchill.’
. . .
‘I’ve told you a hundred times, mother, that Wilberforce is only jellying eels till he finds something better.’

‘What is better than an eel?’ asked Lord Ickenham, who had been following this discussion with the close attention it deserved. ‘For jellying purposes, I mean.’

[Wodehouse, What Ho!]

By: Barry

Barry — Thu, 18 May 2006 02:39:10 +0000

Perhaps I’m showing myself to be particularly clueless, but the first paragraph of this post sounded like some text composed to fool a spam filter – words strung together which almost have meaning. What’s with that?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 17 May 2006 20:00:47 +0000

Jelly Dancers is ok, but kinda repetitive, no?

By: Yentz Mahogany

Yentz Mahogany — Wed, 17 May 2006 19:20:48 +0000

Ah, Eels… Will you ever stop being so weird?