Love him or loathe him, he’s a huge landmark on our imaginative landscape. So break out the tantalus and gas up the gasogene. The game is afoot!
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Love him or loathe him, he’s a huge landmark on our imaginative landscape. So break out the tantalus and gas up the gasogene. The game is afoot!
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He’s OKAY. FIRST POST!!
Does somebody have to, like, make up a mystery?
He’s too cool. Like he knows random facts about everything.
Hi! Yeah, Sherlock’s okay. Except the only book I ever read by him was The Hound of the Baskervilles, and I read it for school. So….. he’s okay.
Hey! I bet Sherlock Holmes’ alter ego is named Shirley!
But his brother knows more. Have you run across Mycroft Holmes in the stories? He’s positively Bo-like. About as physically active as Bo, too.
Awesome!
Oh. When we were reading The Hound of the Baskervilles in school, I lost my copy and so I went to check it out from the library. But it was checked out, and the only one left was this thousand-page collection of like fifteen of his books! So I lugged it home. And all that carrying it back and forth to school kinda put me off of Holmes. Not like it was his fault or anything.
Cool. He’s okay, I think.
6- I don’t think so…..*runs to get book*
My favourite was The Adventure of the Speckled Band…
I have never read any of them, but they sound good. I know some other people who have read them, and they love them.
uh hes ok i guess…….ive never read any…………idk much about him at all
YAY! A SHERLOCK THREAD!!!!!!!!!!!
*goes and grabs book*
I liked the Boscombe Valley Mystery.
10, 11- YOU POOR DEPRIVED SOULS!!!!!!!!
*goes rabid like a rabid fan and hugs book*
4- By him???? My dear Wat—Violetfire, he’s a creation of fiction!!! Sir artie wrote the books.
In the Thursday Next books, Thursday’s uncle Mycroft used the Prose Portal to transport himself into the Sherlock Holmes series. Jasper Fforde is brilliant. Has anyone read anything of his?
9-me too!
13-lol sir arthur conan doyle
Didn’t “Sir Artie” do the Piltdown Man hoax-thingy?
the whatdown who what thingy?
15- Of course, my dear Watso—-Dark lord, I was just to lazy to type out anything longer than Sir Artie.
sherlock holmes is a twit.
14: the name sounds familiar. what are some of his books?
Actually, kiki, the man who discovered the Piltdown man is now believed to be the hoaxer. Especially since most of his other “discoveries” were fakes as well. There was a show about it on PBS.
You know, Arthur Conan Doyle actually hated Shirlock Holmes popularity. (He thought his other works were more important.) That’s why he finally killed Holmes off in The Final Problem. But there was so much public outrage that he brought him back…
Sherlock Holmes is my hero. My sincere apologies to all other applicants.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s birthday was not too long ago, right?
I like The Red-Headed League
13- Just asked her bout that. She said she ment about him, not by him. Oops.
20-Eooooooooooooohhhhhhh.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! *kiki has burst of genius* Let’s have a Pie War over Sir Artie, Sherlock Holmes, and SHH(sherlock holmes haters) Hahahaha!! I am on the Sir Artie Side. *pies otzi*
*pies everyone* Did someone tell me that the old pie war is still going? And that the Neutrals are now called JadeOp? Why?
26-It is still going, Violetfire baby.
Holmes’s abilities pale in comparison to that of Dirk Gently. Yes, Holmes got his man after deduction and hard work, but Gently didn’t have to work, and he still got his man. Also, Gently is funnier, has more fun, drinks more, and actually is a man of style, discriminating taste, and perfectly flippant presumptuousness, inquiry, and repartee.
Pwned.
personally, i often think of the name Hemlock Stones when i see Sherlock Holmes…but i doubt anyone else knows what i’m talking about. never mind.
*lurks blindly*
You mean the Great Defective of Fireside Theater fame?
I’m surprised that so few MuseBloggers seem to have heard of FT, one of the great countercultural comedy troupes of the late 1960s and 1970s.
29- They sound cool. What kind of stuff did they do?
ooh ooh ooh remember when muse did that detective issue and there was a fake sherlock holmes story? and a contest too? that was funny
29-And then they collapsed into the British ’80s, where character comedy was king and Thomas Dolby was a panty-melter.
If you have hemlock, you don’t need to stone your man to death.
31- Yeaaaaaah…!!!
I just recived an email joke ’bout Sherlock and Watson.
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were camping in the forest. They had gone to bed and were lying beneath the night sky. Holmes said, “Watson, look up. What do you see?”
“I see thousands of stars.”
“And what does that mean to you?” Holmes asked.
“I suppose it means that of all the planets in the universe, we are truly fortunate to be here on Earth. We are small in God’s eyes, but should struggle every day to be worthy of our blessings. In a meteorological sense, it means we’ll have a sunny day tomorrow. What does it mean to you, Holmes?”
“To me, it means someone has stolen our tent.”
Tee hee.
34: haha
hee hee hee.
My dad and I read Sherlock Holmes aloud at night…it’s fun!
34-That was in muse! Well, the site to it was anyway. In Bo’s page. I used it for my luvverly 20-min project, which, despite it’s incredible awesomness and muselike qualities, only got me a B-.
But hear ye, hear ye! I got a B+ on the final! *squeals with joy* 88% Which marks up to a 4.0 i think. Mebbe i bit higher.
While i’m talking about the totally unrelated subject of my exams, i also got an 88 in latin, an 85 in math, and a…get this…92! in science. Despite the fact that i did no studying at all and never payed attention in that class. Muse, how do i love thee? Let me count the ways…
36-Like Rumpole of the Bailey and his son. Whoops. I think I stepped on a family tradition there. Sorry. My own family only has a tradition of my father taking me to the rape trials he expert witnesses at when he catches me sneaking out at night. Which isn’t often.
37-Ebeth! I bet you’re either Capitalist swine or a Bolshevik bra-burner. How the hell did you manage to get such sterling marks when you didn’t even go tails up for a few weeks to study? And when you type words like ‘paid’?
I hate being stupid.
‘Sherlock Holmes kept his tobacco inside the toe of a Persian slipper.’
‘I’ve never seen a Persian slipper.’
‘Neither have I. It is my secret sorrow. Tell me more.’
-P.G. Wodehouse, The Brinkmanship of Galahad Threepwood
37- Yeah, I can do that without studing. It really annoys people. Just imagine what you could do if you did study….then imagine what you could do with the time you would otherwise have wasted studying…:)
Did you know that Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle really detested Holmes, and tried to kill him off? But it didn’t work. He returned!!! Maybe that will happen to Dumbledore!!!
39-Quiet. I have to go for approx. 4 hours to get in the 90s on a Social Studies test, 3.5 for a LA, 5 for a Science test, and 6 for a Math exam. Quizzes are half of that. I hate your guts, you lazy, degenerate people.
…sorry…
But Queenie, judging from what you’ve posted, I think I can be very certain in saying that you are a speed-reader. That’s a very useful skill, and I commend you for it.
41- ha, I have to go 5 minutes for a quiz and an hour at the most for a hard test..
Bleh. I am totally not a speed reader. It takes me forever to finish stuff. It’s pretty annoying.
Hm, I think he’s way too much of a power house.
I truly wish Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did finish him off. I mean, the man is not really mortal if you think about it… he’s probably a god or something. Or maybe a demon? o.O
He can get sort of annoying somtimes…
has anyone read the last sherlock holmes
it has jack the ripper *shivers*
43-Thank you. It took me 3.46 seconds to read your post.
46, 47-A male Mary Sue! Um, a Johnny Sue? I need to find something that rhymes…Holmes is just a character, I don’t think we need to worry.
48-Someone tried to figure out the identity of J. the R. by testing the DNA in the saliva on the back of an envelope. It didn’t work. Hello, Johnny V., by the way.
Johnny Sue.
Johnny Boo.
Johnny Moo.
Johnny Lou (is).
hello
and yeah i heard about that
hello queenie j
were you on lotr blog?
Have you guys read the mary russel books by laurie r. king
Ahhh!!! A Laurie R. King freak!! Yay!! (sorry, watson, dear, I’m pretending I don’t know you. yeah, hi! its me!)
I’m a major Holmes addict, I’ve read, like, all of the canon an’ all the kanon (Lauries), and a bunch of other ones (most of which kinda sucked, but who cares? Not i! ) and then i started to read a bio on de great author himself. who hated holmes and was a major spiritualist and knew houdini (and ignored his skepticism) and totally fell for the stupid paper cutout fairy crap that made the poor guy look like a total idiot. As i say, i was reading it when it got taken away by my unsympathetic mom, so i never finished it.
but still, Holmes rocks, and i’ll pie anyone who disagrees w/ me. Anyone at all. *menacing scowl*
but to change the subject totally, i’m at nerd camp and i just got introed to manga/anime and i now totally love that too!! please tell me i’m not the only one.
5- um, no, its Sherrinford. (sorry, holmes trivia)
and mycroft is amazing
sorry. i was really really caffinated, but i’m better now
In case you want to read Sherlock Holmes but don’t have any books handy, you can read “The Hound of the Baskervilles” as well as “The Speckled Band,” “A Scandal in Bohemia,” and “The Final Problem” (that’s the one in which Holmes dies) on a really well done Stanford University Web site. The school’s community reading project has them online at http://sherlockholmes.stanford.edu/. They’ve also got great background info about the life and times of Arthur Conan Doyle AND they’ve got explanatory notes to the text too. Pretty cool.
They’ve got the same kind of material for three Dickens stories too: “Great Expectations,” “A Tale of Two Cities,” and “Hard Times.”
*imprisions and pies everyone who does not love Sherlock, rabidly re reads Sherlock stories* PIE WAR!!! YES!!!!
Have never read books.
Heard enough about him to know about books
Sir Arthur is complete genius
If you don’t know about sherlock holmes do not call him a twit
He rocks.
Sometimes boring
But still rocks
Detectives rule
Rock on.
has anyone read the final problem?
OF COURSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what about the return of sherlock holmes?
p.s. dont u think the final problem is creepy *shivers*