.001 [Accidental Video...eventually]

[what_ho_jeeves]

[Voice]

--at ho? [sound of communicator falling down and shutting off.]



[Text]

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[Video]


...blasted thing come with instructions.

[Lo! The whatsitsthingy is blinking! This might be a good sign. Or this might be like the half-dozen other times that he thought it was working when it actually wasn't. ...No...it really is working this time. In the background is a posh flat designed with hints of Art Deco in the architectural details.]

What ho, what ho!

I say, this is a dashed peculiar sort of ship, isn’t it? I mean, when I was approached by this Admiral chap I knew I’d be on some boat or another, but I rather expected it to be more of a sea-going affair, as is, I think, a natural conclusion to come to when the word “ship” is uttered. Instead, inside, I find a replica of my Berkeley Mansions flat, so perfectly perfect I half expect Jeeves to come biffing in through the kitchen door at any moment, and outside, I find all the starry universe.

Well, this is a rummy whatsits, it is. All the same, this Wooster shall not yield to brooding or despair. Oh no. Did the Wooster who fought at Agincourt look around that stormy and troubled hill and say, “Dash it all, this wasn’t on the cards,” and go home? Oh no. A Wooster always keeps his word, you know.

[He emphatically gestures with the hand that's holding the communicator at the end of his little speech, causing the picture to veer wildly around and ultimately drops it again. Barge-folk, enjoy a view of his ceiling.]

Dash it all, why can't the Admiral use sensible things that start with "tele," like telegrams and telephones to--

[And in picking it up he's accidentally turned it off again. It may be hours before he figures out how to turn it back on.]

Comments

{Video}

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.' Apt, I suppose, though I confess myself not an admirer of Byron.

{Video}

[what_ho_jeeves]

That's the chap! I say, you must eat quite nearly as much fish as Jeeves, Mr...what was your name?

{Video}

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

Sherlock Holmes. A pleasure, Mr. Wooster. That would only be the case were your Jeeves to eat very little fish.

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[what_ho_jeeves]

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[what_ho_jeeves]

{Video} 3/3

[what_ho_jeeves]

The Sherlock Holmes? As in...Sherlock Holmes comma The?

{Video}

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

Indeed, assuming one insists upon affixing the article to one's name.

{Video}

[what_ho_jeeves]

[inarticulate sounds of fanboy squee.]

Can you really tell a bird's occupation with one look at his hands and the knees of his trousers?

{Video}

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

The locations of marks and wear depend greatly on the profession, of course, though my accuracy is quite unmatched. {Mostly unmatched, anyway.} This ability has been diminished of late, regrettably, with this dearth of unfortunately unfamiliar occupations. I have however identified indicative marks on the hands of those who would spend undue amounts of time with the more leisurely technologies.

{Technologies, of course, said as though it is the highest form of treason and blasphemy.}

{Video} [bah, typos plus no editing ability]

[what_ho_jeeves]

Leisurely technologies...such as automobiles? [Leisure and technology don't quite go together in his brain. Books are leisure. Golf is leisure. Drinking in the gentlemen's club is leisure. Technology is like...factories and work. And autos. Autos are fun.]

{Video} [Gold is...sort of leisurely, I guess.]

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

No, there are...moving pictures controlled by buttons to produce several manners of game and poor excuses for sport. Responsive films, if you will.

{Video} [If you are Scrooge McDuck]

[what_ho_jeeves]

Cinema that one...drives like an auto or dials like a telephone?

{Video} [Only on the weekends.]

[so-meretricious.livejournal.com]

The description is apt for its appearance.