a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiotQg-U_bquIkg3_9vXrVR9RKbiF5c9qubM3n1rszRZ-iNGFE4_D8ZfxRhp6ZXhu2BfTTMro9cVOLwnya_GvpamUSt20jfxovqyJiQnyQ1OP2WBu2aZYx34mUXhc6fcs5u8OiGknRai8ZD/s1600-h/codewoosters.jpg"img style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 139px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364762863275143554" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiotQg-U_bquIkg3_9vXrVR9RKbiF5c9qubM3n1rszRZ-iNGFE4_D8ZfxRhp6ZXhu2BfTTMro9cVOLwnya_GvpamUSt20jfxovqyJiQnyQ1OP2WBu2aZYx34mUXhc6fcs5u8OiGknRai8ZD/s200/codewoosters.jpg" //aAs we have seen, Market Harborough's very own Mosleyite, a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/07/noel-symington-and-night-climbers-of.html"Noel Symington/a was a scion of the soup branch of the family. It is, for literary reasons, a great shame he did not hale from the corsetry side of the Symingtons.br /br /Any reader of P.G. Wodehouse will be familiar with Roderick Spode, Earl of Sidcup and leader of the Black Shorts. And that reader will know that Spode once made a living as the founder and proprietor of Eulalie Soeurs", a famed designer of ladies' lingerie.br /br /a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Spode"Wikipedia/a takes up the story:br /divblockquotepSpode had long attempted to keep his ownership of the business a secret, though Jeeves discovered the fact in the Junior Ganymede Club's official Book, where one of Spode's former valets had inscribed it./ppIn The Code of the Woosters, this discovery allowed Bertie to threaten Spode with public embarrassment and prevent being coshed: as Bertie says, "You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing. One or the other. Not both."/ppIndeed, whenever Bertie mentions the name "Eulalie" throughout the book, Spode instantly becomes meek and acquiescing./p/blockquoteSomehow, mentioning soup and a href="http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/ocado-compare-prices/Desserts/Symingtons_Table_Cream_Strawberry_99g.html"table creams/a would not have had the same effect./divdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-2474718171924079497?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div
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