Lord Peter Wimsey

[yrieithydd]

At MethSoc Coffeeeeeeeeee on Sunday night, we played various silly games. The first of these involved us each writing the name of three famous people on separate bits of paper and then putting them into a tin. We were then split into two teams and one person on one team had to describe as many of these people as they could in 30 seconds without using proper nouns and so on. When eventually all the names had been guessed, they were returned to the tin and the describers only had one word (but of course we knew who was in there) and then the third round involved gestures.

Anyway, the reason I am posting this is that my three names were Terry Pratchett, Inspector (Endeavour) Morse and Lord Peter Wimsey. This last proved not to be famous enough. Only one other person (on the other team) knew who he was, while a couple of others had vaguely heard of him. The one person who had heard of him was the only one older than me (and that substantially). I certainly knew of him before I read any of the books, although I'll admit that the fact I'd been re-reading various over Christmas was probably the reason he was in my head. But there's been a certain amount of coverage of the recent anniversary of 9 taylors, or is that only within ringing circles? Was a over optimistic in expecting a bunch of people predominantly a few years younger than myself (the nearest in age is just over 2 years younger than me), Cambridge students, and on the whole well read, to know enough about Lord Peter to be able to guess him in such a game?

Comments

[yrieithydd.livejournal.com]

[grins] That is the only one which is fnordian (though of course both Lord Peter and Harriet Vane are members of the other place -- though in Harriet's case it excusable in that the other place was better at letting women in). They're good.

[angelofthenorth.livejournal.com]

I have read others, and enjoyed them muchly...