16 Replies to “‘Mohammed’ enters top boys’ names in Britain”

1. jimboy says:

   January 5, 2005 at 8:00 pm

   Yassar can’t be far behind.

2. jimboy says:

   January 5, 2005 at 8:01 pm

   Yassar, Yassir…..whatever…that dead old klepto

3. SteveL says:

   January 5, 2005 at 8:14 pm

   I know this, Emma Peel would never have been quite so fabulous in the company of “Mohammed Steed”, bowler hat or no.

4. shank says:

   January 5, 2005 at 8:37 pm

   you forgot the monacles; the last horseman will apparently be riding an arabian steed and sporting the finest haberdashery and monocle the civilized world has ever known.  Hey, just because he’s leveling the Flaming Sword at the heads of the heathen unwashed masses doesn’t mean he can’t clean up, right?

5. BumperStickerist says:

   January 5, 2005 at 9:33 pm

   random, unrelated thought –

   Jeff, you mentioned that 2005 would include making Taranto your bitch or some such – have you considered that Taranto has minions?
   

   Thanks to Barak Moore, Samuel Walker, Camille Good, Michael Segal, Henry Kaye, Lewis Sckolnick, C.E. Dobkin, Brian Dawson, Kevin Schmidt, M. Gilbertson, Charlie Gaylord, Thomas Mayer, Jeffrey Jones, Terry Harris, Steve Baus, Ken Shotwell, Tom Stiff, Robert Brooks, Spencer Brown, Philip Purrington, Sol Cranfill, Thomas Dillon, John Williamson, James Silverglad, John Sanders, Steve Shirley, Mark Davies, Robert Owen and Brian Perry

   I think you could take a Brian Dawson or a Kevin Schmidt … but toss a Philip Purrington or Tom Stiff into the mix and I think you’re facing insurmountable odds.

   My guess is that, sadly, Taranto will remain unbitchified.

   You need to get yourself some minions, Jeff.

6. Jay Reding says:

   January 5, 2005 at 9:36 pm

   I can just see that now – hoards of British zombies going around and politely asking: “Excuse me good sir, but might I have a nosh on your delicious brains? Brilliant!”

7. Ana says:

   January 5, 2005 at 10:49 pm

   Bumper Stickerist–

   Jeff has better than minions. He has myrmidons.

8. gail says:

   January 5, 2005 at 11:05 pm

   Ana, Yeah, and us myrmidons can swim, too, with out powerful fishy tails.

9. gail says:

   January 5, 2005 at 11:06 pm

   OUR

10. gail says:

    January 5, 2005 at 11:07 pm

    Shit. I hate when my quips go awry.

11. Sean M. says:

    January 6, 2005 at 2:17 am

    Ah, yes.  The Book of Jeeves is my favourite part of the New Testament.

12. Robin Roberts says:

    January 6, 2005 at 3:16 am

    I always enjoyed the old hymn.

    Wait for it…
    
    Wait for it….

    “Bringing in the Jeeves”

13. McGehee says:

    January 6, 2005 at 3:43 am

    I heard a rumor that Wodehouse considered a last book in which the faithful manservant got a sex change.

    But I think he may have been just making Miss Jeeves.

14. JWebb says:

    January 6, 2005 at 4:24 am

    Robin, my favorite hymn was “Jeeves Us Saves.”

15. Rae says:

    January 6, 2005 at 6:20 am

    You mean the Monte Python guys will take over the earth?

16. Tim Worstall says:

    January 9, 2005 at 1:02 pm

    Butlers are addressed by their surname…Jeeves is such, not a forename.
    
    From an old post, some names of the current butler employing classes:
    
    IN A changing world, the staff list on Tatler’s masthead is an enduring joy. A few from the current issue: Leon St Amour, Ticky Hedley-Dent, Debonnaire von Bismarck, Raphaëlla Riboud, Sheikh Majed Al-Sabah, Ellen Himelfarb and – magnificently – Muffie Sproat.

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