A glowing pink jellyfish-shaped lamp with dangling strands and a tilted tiny top hat against sea green.

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Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best  ·  1926

P.G. Wodehouse

Lord Emsworth, whose IQ may be some thirty points below that of an absent minded jellyfish.

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A comic put-down that measures a character's intelligence against a distracted jellyfish and has him losing by thirty points. The mock-precise number is the joke, painting him as wonderfully, hopelessly vague, and the absent-mindedness makes even a jellyfish look sharp.

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