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[what_ho_jeeves]

[FAIL!private to the Admiral. ie--not private at all]

Excuse me, Admiral fellow, if you could do a chap a favour, I'd like to trade in my current Warden Item for a new one. I'd like my new Warden Item to be a valet, tall, dark-haired, goes by the name of "Reginald Jeeves." I'm sure he'd do a corking job keeping me informed of my inmate-to-be's activities, as he's always kept me informed of dashed near everything that one could possibly need to be informed about. In fact, he's the most informed bird I know. "Informed" is just the word to describe him.

And I'd be bally grateful if you could make the replacement quickly. I've a yearning for a spot of tea, you see, and the kettle's a bit tricky.

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Bertie will call him a...communist. Yes, a communist. (Bertie's insults need work.)

[what_ho_jeeves]

Nay, not just any person, my valet, Jeeves, who is as far beyond normal personhood as...a very brainy chap is beyond a not brainy chap.

bwahaha. ironically. O'Brien has a servant. an... eastasian prisoner of war servant. :/

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

You're asking for him like you own him, though. What are you, a slaver?

That's...almost like having a valet.

[what_ho_jeeves]

Of course not! No one owns Jeeves. He's my employee. He tells me I give him more than adequate remuneration for his services. [Jeeves is in charge of paying most of Bertie's bills, too, so Bertie has no idea how much he pays Jeeves. But he assumes that it's a fair wage.]

sssh. don't tell people. o'brien's playing working class hero here. :/

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

So you're just some dim, ruling class, capitalist scum who needs a man who actually knows how the real world works around? And thinks he can order him on demand?

What high quality wardens this place picks up, comrade.

[what_ho_jeeves]

I am not dim!

You sound like one of those Red Dawn fellows. "Comrade" this and "comrade" that. Next you'll be spouting off about needing to massacre the bourgeoisie and disembowel the aristocracy or some rot like that. I know how this goes; my friend Bingo was a communist for a few days.

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

...Oh, comrade.

Comrade, comrade, comrade. I'm much more than that. Much more.

What year is it?

[what_ho_jeeves]

More than a Red Dawn communist? Are you an MP?

It's nineteen twenty [mumble mumble Wodehouse is so nonsensical with dates but somewhere between 1925 and 1930ish.]

...o'brien's just having FUN.

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

You're pre-revolution.

Well, soon, comrade, your country will undergo a revolution. It will lead it to Ingsoc, English Socialism - the purest doctrine mankind has ever invented. The Party will rule Oceania - the Americas, Britain, Australasia. It is nominally communist, comrade, but shall have ultimate power. And will crush petty little capitalists like you.

It's like the intellectual equivalent of a tiger playing with a mouse before eating it.

[what_ho_jeeves]

You don't happen to march about the countryside declaiming the dissoluteness of modern society and the quality of British knees, do you?

[You are reminding him of Roderick Spode...only communist.]

totally. :D

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

...No, comrade.

Who does that?

[what_ho_jeeves]

Roderick Spode, Lord Sidcup now, amateur dictator. He runs a group called the Blackshorts and threatens to mash people into jelly. Bally nuisance if you ask me.

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

...He sounds like a totalitarian. And not a very good one.

Oh, we're better than them, comrade.

[what_ho_jeeves]

I should hope so. It'd be a tricky thing to be worse, I tell you. Spode is a perfect poop. Grown men biffing about wearing black shorts crying Heil, Spode? It's a frightful sight to behold.

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

...Was he just trying to be Hitler?

[what_ho_jeeves]

Hitler?

[Just a few years too early for Bertie to be familiar with that name. If he paid more attention to international politics it might have rung a bell, but as it is...]

[equalsfive.livejournal.com]

German fascist totalitarian. Had a stupid moustache and uniforms, as far as I'm aware.