One reason I like Schott's PGW homages is that they are explicitly that. His oft-stated intent is to get readers who haven't to try the real thing. Along the way, he comes up with lines that are "almost but not quite" Plummy - but still amusing, like this one:
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as Sherlock Holmes once observed, when you’ve excluded the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be lunch
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