Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Followup-To: poster
From: Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 1997/03/26
Subject: Re: Plum's kindness to a young fan

Richard Herring <rich...@clupeid.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Every time I see this name I am irresistibly reminded of one of
> the Blandings stories, in which Clarence receives some musical
> instructions which, surprisingly, were not found in Whiffle (or
> even Whipple).  Can anyone remind me of the precise form they took?

My Dear Mr Herring,

Perhaps you are thinking of the short story "Pig-Hoo-o-o-o-ey", in
which is presented a pig call variously rendered "Pig-hoo-oo-ey",
"Pig-hoo-oo-o-ey", "Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey", "Pig-HOO-o-o-o-ey", and
"Pig-HOOOOO-OOO-OOO-O-O-ey" in the text.  Each of these, you may
observe, contains the letters of my last name in order, with some
extra Os inserted.  This is also true of the word "hooey", a slang
term meaning nonsense.  I am also told there is a military historian
named David Hooey.

In contrast, my name is supposedly derived from the Gaelic
"O'hEochaidh", so the lexical resemblance to these other words is
merely one of those superficial coincidences that seem to occur so
frequently.

Sincerely,

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil