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	Gussie Fink-Nottle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gussie met Bertie at Malvern House Preparatory School, where they were schoolmates; growing up, he took up residence in a remote part of Lincolnshire to pursue his beloved newt studies.
		A lifelong friend of Bertie Wooster, he is "a teetotal bachelor with a face like a fish", wears horn-rimmed spectacles, and devotes his life to the study of newts; his odd behavior is reminiscent of a person with Asperger syndrome.
		When, in Right Ho, Jeeves, he first sees Madeline Bassett, he falls immediately in love with her; however, too shy to tell her himself, he convinces Bertie to break the news for him.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gussie_Fink-Nottle (388 words)

	Gussie Fink-Nottle
		Gussie Fink-Nottle was a student with Bertie Wooster at the Rev. Aubrey Upjohn's private school.
		Gussie Fink-Nottle is a fictional character that appears in several of P.
		Bertie spends a lot of time keeping Gussie engaged to Madeline, because if their engagement is ever broken off, Bertie will have to marry her himself!
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gu/Gussie_Fink-Nottle.html (94 words)

	Jeeves & Wooster (an Episode Guide)
		Gussie Fink Nottle is intimidated by prospective father-in-law Sir Watkyn Bassett and his violent associate Spode.
		Newt-fancier Gussie Fink Nottle pines for Madeline Bassett at Brinkley Court.
		A crisis of identity ensues when Bertie steps in to help Gussie Fink Nottle make a lasting impression on bride-to-be Madeline Bassett's demanding Godmother at Deverill Hall, while Bertie is himself meant to be there wooing young Gertrude Deverill.
	epguides.com /JeevesandWooster/guide.shtml (1503 words)

	Gussie Fink-Nottle
		You can visit his album which will be updated frequently or whenever he deigns to sit still for a snap.
		I like to think that it was Gussie's luck, that I spotted him.
		Gussie rules the house even though we try to believe that we are still in control.
	talasilas.org /gussie.shtml (667 words)

	A Jeeves and Wooster Bibliography: Books by P.G. Wodehouse
		Gussie Fink-Nottle must marry Madeleine Bassett or Bertie will be obliged to proffer the ring in his stead, so Jeeves and Bertie visit Totleigh Towers, a rural leper colony.
		Take Gussie Fink-Nottle, Madeline Bassett, old Pop Bassett, the unscrupulous Stiffy Byng, an 18th-century cow-creamer, a small brown leather covered notebook and mix with a dose of the aged aunt Dahlia and one has a dangerous brew which spells toil and trouble for Bertie and Jeeves.
		Bertie Wooster begins to wonder whether Jeeves is losing his touch when he offers Gussie Fink-Nottle some advice, which results in his becoming badly unstuck at a fancy dress party.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /k-schellenberg/jeeves (458 words)

	Jeeves and Wooster
		Gussie Fink Nottle, Madeleine Bassett, Roderick Glossop, and I think also Roderick Spode have EACH been played by more than one actor.
		The new Gussie being physically larger than the last one made it harder to believe he was frightened by Spode, whom he probably outweighed.
		Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, Gussie Fink-Nottle, Catsmeat Potter Pirbright, Oofy Prosser, Hildebrand "Tuppy" Glossop, etc. Their pranks and mischief are just too much!
	www.jumptheshark.com /j/jeevesandwooster.htm (4163 words)

	Roderick Spode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is constantly in love with Madeline Bassett, and though he intended to remain a bachelor during his career as a dictator, he nevertheless attempted to protect her from men "playing fast and loose"; to this end, he threatened on several occasions to beat Bertie Wooster and Gussie Fink-Nottle to a jelly.
		Before Spode inherited the title of Earl of Sidcup from his uncle, he made a living as the "founder and proprietor of the emporium in Bond Street known as Eulalie Soeurs", a famed designer of ladies' lingerie.
		Spode is a large and intimidating figure, appearing "as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla, and had changed its mind at the last moment".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roderick_Spode (508 words)

	Questions & Answers: Gussied up
		As you say, something gussied up has been made more attractive, but in a showy or gimmicky way, so it’s often not intended to be a compliment.
		It is possible that the publicity associated with her Wimbledon appearance helped the verb along, and may even have generated gussy up from the existing noun, gussie.
		GUSSIED UP From W S Penn: “My searching for the origins of gussied up has been noticeably a failure in finding anything other than ‘origin obscure’.
	www.quinion.com /words/qa/qa-gus1.htm (401 words)

	problem_sets_ps.txt
		He asks if you recall an incident that happened a few weeks ago with Gussie Fink-Nottle (famed for his exploits in Problem 6.2), in which Spode’s negligence permitted Fink-Nottle to obtain one of Spode’s blank checks and issue the check fraudulently.
		After withdrawing the funds from his account, Gussie then disappears (ostensibly on some type of newt-hunting expedition).
		Before you leave the club, Bertie’s acquaintance Roderick Spode stops at your table to discuss a problem he has with his credit card.
	www.utexas.edu /law/faculty/rmann/payment/docs/problem_sets_ps.txt (23442 words)

	The Mating Season - Audio Books Download
		When Gussie Fink-Nottle, after a convivial evening with "Catsmeat" Pinbright, was sentenced to 14 days without the option for wading in the fountain at Trafalgar Square, Bertie Wooster saw the red light.
		For Gussie was an expected guest at Deverill Hall, and clearly his enforced absence would give rise to immediate inquiries.
		As always when a rift appeared in her love affairs, Madeline would transfer her simpering affection to Bertram, and the grim prospect of having to endure the grand passion of this female stimulated Bertie to the sternest of endeavors to forestall catastrophe.
	www.audiobooksdownload.com /Books/BK_BLAK_000379.htm (701 words)

	Jeeves and Wooster
		Gussie starts to keep a notebook containing scornful thoughts of the two ogres and he becomes a changed man. When he loses the notebook, Gussie fears that it may fall into the hands of the enemy.
		His engagement to Madeline is under threat and Bertie is summoned to heal the rift; something Bertie regards as imperative as the dizzy woman may set her sights on him.
		Gussie has a rival in his affection for Madeline Bassett in Roderick Spode, the amateur dictator.
	www.tvheaven.ca /jandw.htm (1920 words)

	Modern Drunkard Magazine Online
		One of Wodehouse’s most sublime passages, ranked justifiably by Jaggard as “unquestionably one of the finest pieces of sustained humor in the language” is the episode in which Gussie Fink-Nottle is selected (faute de mieux) by Bertie’s Aunt Dahlia to hand out the annual prizes to the schoolboys at Market Snodsbury Grammar School.
		Understandably nervous and unaccustomed to such a chore, Gussie gets entirely plastered beforehand—affording Wodehouse the opportunity to put to page one of his funniest-ever scenes in literary history.
		The Broken Compass, the Sewing Machine, the Comet, the Atomic, the Cement Mixer and, of course, the Gremlin Boogie.
	www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com /issues/01-04/01-04-plum-brandy.htm (922 words)

	Mini-reviews of the Jeeves novels of P. G. Wodehouse
		Gussie, originally engaged to Madeline, gets engaged instead to Angela, infuriating her ex-fiancé Tuppy; the chef Anatole blows his top; Gussie drinks too much; and Bertie has to bicycle eighteen miles in the night.
		Bertie impersonates the incarcerated Gussie; Gussie impersonates Bertie; Catsmeat impersonates a valet; Corky fascinates Gussie; Bertie steals a letter from Madeline; Esmond is a hit at the village concert; and Gussie rescues a dog from Constable Dobbs.
		Here, a black amber statuette is repeatedly stolen and returned; Gussie becomes a vegetarian before rebelling and eloping with the cook, Emerald; Jeeves fingers Bertie as the dangerous criminal Alpine Joe; Stiffy secures for a vicarage for Stinker; and Spode gets engaged to Madeline.
	math.stanford.edu /%7Elng/jeeves.html (1316 words)

	Jeeves & Wooster: A Plan for Gussie : Video
		To everyone’s relief Stiffy Byng finds it, but he refuses to hand it over unless a plan can be devised whereby her guardian will consent to her marrying the penurious curate "Stinker" Pinker.
		To overcome the fear of his prospective father-in-law, Bertie’s friend Gussie Fink-Nottle lists the older man’s shortcomings in a notebook, which he promptly mislays.
		In this episode (which continues the story begun in "Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer") Gussie gets himself and Wooster into even more hot water with prospective father-in-law Sir Watkyn Basset and country-house fascist Sir Roderick Spode when he loses a notebook filled with insulting comments.
	www.pagenation.com /an/6304138423.html (539 words)

	A Brave Newt World
		He writes of an upper-class twit named Gussie Fink-Nottle who has nothing better to do than study newts and their mating habits.
		First there was the witches' brew in Macbeth (eye of newt...) and later P.G. Wodehouse used them as a running gag in many of his novels.
		"But what is the love life of newts, if you boil it right down?" asks Gussie's friend Bertie, employer of the famous Jeeves.
	www.eyeinstitute.net /newt.html (2258 words)

	Jeeves & Wooster: A Plan for Gussie VHS
		In this episode of the British comedy series "Jeeves & Wooster," Bertie's pal Gussie Fink-Nottle tries to get over his fear of his future father-in-law.
		Bertie's chum Gussie is up in arms when a notebook in which he listed his prospective father-in-law's faults falls into the wrong hands.
		Although he's happy when Stiffy Byng finds it, Gussie discovers that she won't fork it over until he does her a big favor...
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/1232956/a/Jeeves+%26+Wooster%3A+A+Plan+for+Gussie.htm (342 words)

	StrongBrains - Literature
		Bertie Wooster, defending his bachelor state, becomes a guest at Deverill Hall pretending to be the quintessential drip Gussie Fink-Nottle to preserve latter's engagement with the Basset.
		Meanwhile, Esmond loves Corky but doesn't know how to tell her and Gertrude, though seemingly pursued by Esmond is the object of the love of Corky's brother, Catsmeat, but none of the pairings can get right against the threat of the Five Aunts and the well-meaning but flawed help of Bertie.
		Calmly and with polish, she disentangles their frustrations, helping each person to fulfill his ambitions until all is set to order.
	strongbrains.com /art/literature/default.htm (1020 words)

	Sendit.com - Jeeves And Wooster - The Complete Second Series (Two Cassettes)
		Gussie Fink-Nottle, Stiffy Byng, Bingo Little and all usual culprits seem to have the most confusing of engagements.
		His chums and their 'liasons of the heart' are as dashed complicated as ever.
	www.sendit.com /video/item/7000000030272 (297 words)

	The Observer Review What ho, Adolf
		That the creator of Jeeves and Gussie Fink-Nottle should find himself associated, however loosely, with Adolf Hitler and Josef Goebbels is the fifth and most obdurate problem in writing about Wodehouse.
		If there is one part of his long and extraordinary life that deserves the closest scrutiny and analysis, it is his experience in occupied Europe from the fall of France in May 1940 to the liberation in June 1944.
	www.observer.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,596426,00.html (3048 words)

	What ho! My hero, PG Wodehouse
		The masterly episode where Gussie Fink-Nottle presents the prizes at Market Snodsbury grammar school is frequently included in collections of great comic literature and has often been described as the single funniest piece of sustained writing in the language.
		Wodehouse liked to mock himself for not seeing straight away that he had hit a rich seam with Jeeves, but in fact it was only two years later that he wrote four more stories.
		I would urge you, however, to head straight for a library or bookshop and get hold of the complete novel Right Ho, Jeeves, where you will encounter it fully in context and find that it leaps even more magnificently to life.
	wodehouse.ru /fryart.htm (2768 words)

	Madeline Bassett -
		Madeline is subsequently engaged to Gussie Fink-Nottle, and eventually marries Roderick Spode, 8th Earl of Sidcup.
		What for Bertie is mere tongue-tied woolly-headedness Madeline mistakes for pining love, and when he pleads in the third person the cause of Gussie Fink-Nottle, who adores Madeline from afar, Madeline of course mistakes this for a proposal.
		They meet on a trip to Cannes (in Right Ho, Jeeves) during which she notices that he looks at her with long, dumb, searching looks.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Madeline_Bassett (299 words)

	Amici di Wodehouse - Ben detto Jeeves
		Gussie Fink-Nottle has never in the whole course of his career pushed
	www.amiciwodehouse.net /ejeeves.htm (82 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books Top 10s Christina Koning
		This 1922 novel has everything: Bertie's wonderfully bossy Aunt Dahlia (not to be confused with his terrifying Aunt Agatha), a romance between stammering newt-fancier Gussie Fink-Nottle and frightfully drippy Madeline ("the stars are God's daisy-chain") Bassett, and of course Jeeves himself - that intellectual giant among valets.
		Growing up as one of the famous 'Mitford Girls' must have been tough enough (Unity was a friend of Hitler's, Diana married Oswald Mosley and Jessica, just to be different, became a communist), but Mitford managed to turn her difficult childhood into a witty and subversive comedy of manners.
		The Jeeves and Wooster books are masterpieces of style and comic timing.
	books.guardian.co.uk /top10s/top10/0,6109,720983,00.html (864 words)

	Niranajan Ramakrishnan: Exit Right, Advani!
		Considering that it came at the end of a holocaust which caused a million deaths and several million to migrate, Jinnah's speech (see The House that Jinnah Built) was an exercise in pure hypocrisy, but ripe stuff nonetheless (see quote at top).
		Fink Nottle at least had, in Wodehouse's words, 'the old familiar juice...
		Thus it was, like Gussie Fink Nottle addressing the kids at the Market Snodsbury Grammar School, that Mr.
	www.counterpunch.org /niranjan06082005.html (2435 words)

	By Farther Steps::home
		Augustus "Gussie" Fink-Nottle is a rather reclusive schoolmate of the protagonist and "the Bassett" is not a hound but Madiline Bassett, the girl engaged to Gussie.
		Later on in the same chapter here is an exchange between Bertie, the protagonist, and his cousin who has gotten engaged to Gussie in order to spite her real fiance:
		A splendid chap, of course, in many ways -- courteous, amiable, and just the fellow to tell you what to do till the doctor came, if you had a sick newt on your hands -- but quite obviously not of Mendelssohn's March timbre.
	byfarthersteps.blogspot.com /2002_08_11_byfarthersteps_archive.html (1363 words)

	Ex Libris Reviews: 1 February 2003
		Bertie is whangdoodled into going down to Deverill Hall pretending to be Gussie Fink-Nottle after Gussie lands himself in the jug by searching for newts in the fountain of Trafalgar Square.
		Jeeves finally shows up to save the day when Gussie comes to the Hall pretending to be, yes, Bertie Wooster.
		He cant take Jeeves since Jeeves' uncle is the Butler of that establishment.
	www.wjduquette.com /exlibris/ex20030201.html (6217 words)

	The Whole Jolly Lot (washingtonpost.com)
		Asked what Wodehouse he'll go back to first, McCrum mentions "Uncle Fred Flits By," which he calls "a joyful story." But he also loves the Fink-Nottle prize-giving passage, which he remembers his father reading aloud.
		How young Gussie, who has never so much as sniffed at a glass of whiskey before, arrives onstage at Market Snodsbury, braced with an elephant-size portion of the right stuff, is a tale far too complex to relate here.
		If you're trying to evoke the alternative universe that is the prose of P.G. Wodehouse, there is perhaps no better place to start than the passage in which Bertie Wooster's schoolmate, the former teetotaler Gussie Fink-Nottle, awards prizes to the eager scholars at Market Snodsbury Grammar School.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A64576-2005Jan10?language%3Dprinter (1897 words)

	The Ground-Pounders
		Not to pour cold water on the flames of their fury, but their commander, Gussie Fink-Nottle, is a throwback to the days of the purchase system and far from the brightest tack in the stables of Sandhurst.
		About to be posted to the Far East Command, the Berkies are anxious to prove their mettle during the third mission to free Sir Peter.
		Newly-formed and chomping at the bit, the Marines are set to do battle against any and all comers.
	www.sirpeter.net /cannonfodder.html (1723 words)

	A Whiner Called David Horowitz
		Horowitz charges that it was Blumenthal who urged left wing assailants such as myself to attend and then to deride the proceedings in print.
		He always struck me as more in line with Bertie Wooster's descriptions of the sheep-like Gussie Fink-Nottle.
		Mind you, it makes me laugh when people talk about Blumenthal and his killer instincts.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles5/Cockburn_Horowitz.htm (1049 words)

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