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		Naturally, as luck would have it, Spode's courier was tapped to carry one of the war's most important pieces of imformation; the news that the Zhodani Abyss campaign had begun.
		Almost immediately handing off their message to another courier, Spode and his crew were jumped by Zhodani warships and forced down on the interdicted world of Algine.
		Strangely enough, while Spode also survived the shoot down, he was found working as a night soil collector, having been sold into chattel slavery almost immediately upon his landing.
	www.urbin.net /EWW/RPG/TRAV/RW/whipsnade.html (1738 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Roderick Spode
		Roderick Spode, 8th Earl of Sidcup, also known as Lord Sidcup, is a minor fictional character from the novels of P.
		Spode is modelled after and a parody of Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists.
		Spode was at first an 'amateur dictator' who led a farcical group of fascists called the Saviours of Britain, better known as the Black Shorts.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Roderick_Spode (532 words)

	Payment Systems \| Assignment 5
		Sir Roderick Spode is a client that Bertie Wooster referred to you, who operates a small women’s clothing store on the west end of town.
		Spode wants to know what he needs to do to be sure that he is not stuck with any losses if somebody steals some blank checks.
		Spode’s account agreement stated that any signature using that machine would be treated as authorized by Spode.
	www.utexas.edu /law/faculty/rmann/payment/assign05.htm (892 words)

	Payment Systems \| Assignment 6
		He tells you that he has a dispute with Roderick Spode regarding an antique silver cow creamer that Bertie recently purchased for $18,000.
		Bertie faxed the image to Spode, who claims that it is a forgery, that he never received the check, and that he will sue Bertie immediately if Bertie does not pay.
		At his wit's end, Bertie is worried that a suit against Spode would harm his reputation in the antiques industry, making it hard for him to acquire future items.
	www.utexas.edu /law/faculty/rmann/payment/assign06.htm (940 words)

	Roderick Spode - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Before he attempts the flmail, however, Spode dashes his hopes by telling Bertie that he has sold Eulalie Soeurs.
		Spode appears in a number of Wodehouse's novels:
		You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roderick_Spode (509 words)

	Jeeves and Wooster
		That is until his butler masterminds the not too difficult task of convincing Sir Roderick and Lady Glossop that their potential son-in-law is quite mad, and obviously unfit to marry Honoria, saving Wooster from the horrors of matrimony.
		Roderick Spode and Watkyn Bassett in the audience would severely dent his courage.
		Sir Roderick Glossop hopes to take a bride, but first he has to marry off daughter Honoria, so Bertie must find a suitable means to disengage her revived interest in him as a prospective husband.
	www.tvheaven.ca /jandw.htm (1929 words)

	Inkblots Magazine
		Spode: We stand for rebirth of Britain, a remaking of this nation into to the magnificent empire it once was.
		Spode: Besides the abolishment of Oxford, I intend to introduce into the House of Lords a bill for widening the gauge of the English railway system by eight inches to facilitate the transportation of livestock.
		Spode: There is always some threat of invasion and attack by foreign nations, but the greatest threat to Britain comes from the vexing problem of overpopulation.
	www.erality.com /inkblots/page.php?summer03 (2452 words)

	AmSouth Bank \| Tips & Tools
		For example, say that on December 31 you had written off Roderick Spode's $50 account as uncollectable.
		Suppose that good old Roderick comes into some money and decides to pay you off in full on January 20.
		To reinstate the account of Roderick Spode written off on May 2.
	www.amsouth.com /smallbusiness/tips_and_tools/text/P06_2975.asp (208 words)

	Schickele Mix Radio Show Episodes - 1 (download torrent) - TPB
		I'm not the original seeder of these torrents, but I have a strong suspicion (and it's only a suspicion) that the orginator ("Roderick Spode") is delaying seeding parts 2-5 until there is a sufficiently large base of seeders for the existing torrents to insure that they won't rapidly die.
		I have even contacted someone who has Roderick Spode as a username on E bay thinking this might the one..
		Roderick, if you're out there--please re-seed the files, or at least let us know what's up.
	thepiratebay.org /tor/3775190/Schickele_Mix_Radio_Show_Episodes_-_1 (483 words)

	DVD Reviewer - Visitors Reviews of Jeeves And Wooster: The Complete 2nd Series
		He is also leader of the fl-shorts, a fascist group with plans to arm the populace with bicycles, umbrellas and turn over large parts of the UK to brussel sprout and turnip production.
		He is suddenly radiating confidence, and insults Spode at a flshorts meeting, when he happens to be blocking the road he and Bertie are driving down.
		We find out that Jeeves advice was to think of all possible scornful thoughts about Spode and Sir Watkyn, so he no longer holds them in such esteem.
	www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk /reviews/comments.asp?DiscIndex=3666 (998 words)

	Who's who in The Code of the Woosters
		Roderick Spode of Totleigh Towers, head of the Black Shorts in CW38, secretly designs ladies' underclothing under the trade name of Eulalie Soeurs, of Bond Street knowledge of which renders him harmless to Bertie, whom he despises, distrusts, and often threatens with violence.
		An eloquent public speaker, Spode is founder and head of the Saviours of Britain, a mob of underlings wearing fl shorts who shout "Heil, Spode!" or words along those general lines.
		His idea, if he doesn't get knocked on the head with a bottle in one of the frequent brawls in which his followers indulge, is to make himself Dictator.
	wodehouse.ru /59w.htm (1187 words)

	Memorable Quotes from "Jeeves and Wooster" (1990) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Spode turns to Gussie, breathing fire, and Bertie smashes a vase on his head.
		Spode, as the underworld phraseology has it, he would be rendered a negligible force.
		Spode's personal attendant is likely to be a member also, and would naturally have confided to the secretary a good deal of information to be included in the club book.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0098833/quotes (733 words)

	Roderick Spode in The AnswerBank: Arts & Literature (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ands for those that haven’t a clue what we are talking about, Spode is one of the delightful characters from the pen of P.G. Wodehouse.
		Yes, Spode is one of P G Wodehouse's characters, and it is an underwear consortium, but where is it?
		If I remember rightly it was either Jeeves in the Offing [he goes shrimping at Herne Bay] or The Code of the Woosters.
	www.theanswerbank.co.uk /Arts-and-Literature/Question174356.html (208 words)

	"Spode" - search results on cRANKy™
		Due to major changes at the Spode Museum Trust the enquiry and research service is unfortunately no longer available.
		Roderick Spode, 8th Earl of Sidcup, often simply known as Lord Sidcup, is a recurring fictional character from the Jeeves novels of British comic...
		Spode is an English manufacturer of pottery and porcelain, based in Stoke-on-Trent.
	cranky.eons.com /Cranky/search/search.jsp?queryTerms=Spode (169 words)

	The Forum of the 1.Jagdmoroner Abteilung - ...Moseley became War Time Prime Minister?
		The worst result would have been a period of chronic turmoil, during which the opportunity to appoint Churchill and steel our resolve for the struggle ahead might have been lost.
		The best commentary on the entire sorry career of Oswald Mosley was issued by P.G. Wodehouse's immortal flibbertigibbet, Bertie Wooster, when he denouced Sir Roderick Spode -- petty demogogue, leader of the fascist "Black Shorts", and would-be dictator--in The Code of the Woosters:
		"The trouble with you, Spode, is that because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of halfwits to disfigure the London scene by going about in fl shorts, you think you're someone.
	www.1jma.dk /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3872 (452 words)

	Shartak : Roderick Spode
		He is said to have the disposition of a short-tempered tiger and is fond of uttering threats of violence with a hob-nailed boots motif.
		a strange man said this about me: "The trouble with you, Spode, is that because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of halfwits to disfigure the London scene by going about in fl shorts, you think you're someone.
		You hear them shouting 'Heil, Spode!' and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.
	www.shartak.com /profile.cgi?id=11540 (250 words)

	Lapham's Quarterly
		[Spode] was, as I had already been able to perceive, a breath-taking cove.
		I don’t know if you have even seen those pictures in the papers of Dictators with tilted chins and blazing eyes, inflaming the populace with fiery words on the occasion of the opening of a new skittle alley, but that was what he reminded me of.
		The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in fl shorts, you think you’re someone.
	www.laphamsquarterly.org /online_b.php?id=1021 (735 words)

	Jeeves And Wooster (Guide)
		Gussie Fink-Nottle tries to overcome his fear of Sir Watkyn Bassett and Roderick Spode by writing down "scornful thoughts" about them in a notebook.
		He recovers the notebook from Spode and returns it to Gussie, who takes it to Madeline and explains why he was in Stiffy's room.
		Jeeves flmails Roderick Spode into saying that he stole the policeman's helmet.
	www.phill.co.uk /comedy/jeeves/guide2.html (1077 words)

	english skies: Bertie's stream of consciousness
		Bertie babbling on and on about the vices of Roderick Spode....to his face...
		The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you've succeeded in convincing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in fl shorts, you think you're someone.
		You hear them shouting "Hail, Spode!" and you imagine it's the voice of the people.
	englishskies.blogspot.com /2005/12/berties-stream-of-consciousness.html (247 words)

	Stephen Fry in The Independent
		He is reported to be of an entirely apolitical cast of mind; much of the furore of course was the result of literary jealousies.
		For Wodehouse's view on Fascists, one need only consult the descriptions of Sir Roderick Spode in The Code of the Woosters to see how a political innocent may still be capable of scorching satire.
		Particular to Wodehouse are the transferred epithets: "I lit a rather pleased cigarette", or, "I pronged a moody forkful of eggs and b".
	www.drones.com /fry.html (2756 words)

	worst scrape you were in - Peoples Republic Of Cork Forums
		It was the summer of 1925, and I had managed to cadge an invitation from my Aunt Dahlia to stay in her place in Totleigh Towers, and sample the cooking of her excellent French chef, Anatole.
		Within 30 mins of my arrival, I had managed to inadvertantly become engaged to that lamentable drip Madeline Bassett, narrowly escape throttling by Roderick Spode, who also loved the Bassett disaster, and alienate my manservant Jeeves with whom I didn't see eye to eye over a pair of Old Etonian spats.
		Witness my surprise on being confronted by Honoria Glossop, the daughter of the renowned loony-doctor Sir Roderick Glossop, to whom I was once engaged.
	www.peoplesrepublicofcork.com /~peoplesr/forums/showthread.php?t=59381 (1177 words)

	spiked-life \| Column \| Minority Mosleys
		He gave us the character Roderick Spode, a humourless brute whose ambition is to be Dictator of Britain.
		A spoof of Oswald Mosley, Spode is the leader of the 'Black Shorts'.
		'The trouble with you, Spode, is that because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of halfwits to disfigure the London scene by going about in fl shorts, you think you're someone.
	www.spiked-online.com /Articles/00000006DECF.htm (968 words)

	indeedsir: Faint Heart, Fair Maiden
		The Black Shorts' leader, Spode?" Honoria had the sudden and savage urge to go to her gun rack, which presently happened to be inconveniently located thirty-odd miles away.
		It's really pretty damn clear in the last couple books that she's marrying Spode on the rebound from Gussie, and mainly because of his title; she doesn't even seem that convinced she wants him.
		Given the whole Roderick Spode-Sir Oswald Moseley connection, I've been wanting to do a Mitford vs. Bassett interaction for a while now.
	community.livejournal.com /indeedsir/282206.html (3327 words)

	Goal Post
		It never really passed the laugh test in England (I say England rather than Britain advisedly, since, alas, I believe Scots are more prone to falling in love with ideology and all its dangers than our southern brethren).
		Not for nothing is Roderick Spode--PG Wodehouse's fictional would-be leader of a British fascist movement--undone when Jeeves discovers that he is also the owner a of ladies' lingerie emporium.
		The trouble with you, Spode, is that because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in fl shorts, you think you're someone.
	www.tnr.com /blog/world-cup?pid=19907 (637 words)

	news - Spode
		The news that appears on Spode will appear there and be constantly updated.
		Nigel said: "The lads froze for the Man City game in February and I think the pressure of it being the Munich anniversary got to them....
		In four fun colours, each piece is decorated by hand with polka dots and the range starts at pounds 6.50 for a salad plate that will knock the spots off anything else...
	www.wikio.com /news/Spode (478 words)

	ø Spode Winters Eve Coffee Pot ø (Site not responding. Last check: )
		no longer use that someone else could something funny the "spode and I got up at 5:30 for a walk to Dunkin Donuts for a fl coffee The only place I've seen one of them was at the melting pot in Stains on Spode Salt & Pepper Shakers.
		may not be over and the present tranquility may be deceptive as it was a century ago on the eve That's what today's Church needs more curates capable of hauling off and letting fellows like Spode have it where it does most good.
		Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves (1963) It came complete with tape deck and CB radio; its trunk was big enough to host New Year's Eve parties.
	www.bearlakeflowers.com /spode-winters-eve-coffee-pot.htm (375 words)

	Too Many Cooks
		Dahlia Travers has to constantly be on the lookout for covetous gourmands who would steal the chef supreme, Anatole, from the kitchens of Brinkley Manor.
		Someone slipped the overdose of tabasco into one of the first two dishes served (they are listed in order); Roderick Spode requested one of the last two dishes served (it was not adulterated by anchovy paste).
		The vinegar was not employed in the soup, cassoulet or mousse; it did spoil the dish served immediately before the dish Jeeves had a hand in mucking up.
	www.thenoyes.com /Puzzles/Logic/Too_Many_Cooks.html (730 words)

	Black Shorts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Spode adopted fl shorts as a uniform because all coloured shirts had been taken by other fascist groups (the fl shirts of Mussolini, Hitler's brown shirts, the ill-fated blue shirts of Ireland and America's own silver shirts).
		The flshorts are ridiculed by Bertie Wooster, who apparently believes that wearing fl shorts is an extreme social faux-pas.
		This article about a character in literature is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Shorts (228 words)

	2006 May 27 \| The Anchoress
		On Wodehouse and Fascism: Since Wodehouse was accused after (WWII) of having collaborated with the Nazis (in that he foolishly made some broadcasts from Berline to an American network, light-heartedly narrating his adventures as an internee in a prison camp), it is pleasant to find (wannabee fascist character, Roderick Spode) resolutely mocked.
		Roderick Spode is the founder and head of the Saviours of Britain, a Fascist organization better known as the Black Shorts.
		His general idea, if he doesn’t get knocked on the head with a bottle in one of the frequent brawls in which he and his followers indulge, is to make himself a Dictator.”
	theanchoressonline.com /2006/05/27 (927 words)

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