Status Updates From Galahad At Blandings: A Bla...

OG sitcom timing: "And the wedding will proceed as planned?’
‘Curtain goes up the day after tomorrow. Apparently you have to let these registrar birds have a day’s notice.’
‘That’s to give them time to get over the shock of meeting the bridegroom.’
‘I suppose they get all sorts?’
‘Yes, it must be a wearing life."

"And talking of eyes, I think it would be a graceful act and one which would help to make Sam’s day if you were to dispense with those ghastly spectacles of yours.’
‘Don’t you like them?’
‘No, I don’t.’
‘Nor does Sam. He said they made me look like a horror from outer space.’
‘He flattered you. Take them off and jump on them.’"

Real recognize real: "They were either the smart hardboiled type, always wisecracking and making one feel like a piece of cheese, or the intellectual kind that wanted to mould me. I couldn’t keep up with them. We weren’t batting in the same league. But Vee, she’s different. I’ve never been a brainy sort of guy, and what I want is a wife with about the same amount of grey matter I have, and that’s how Vee stacks up."

Dearest Clarence: "Nevertheless, his mind was in a whirl, the only thought in it that could possibly be called coherent being a wild regret that he had ever been misguided enough to believe in any statement made by his brother-in-law Clarence."