Carol the Dabbler

Now that would be a tricky puzzle. (No little purple flowers in the corner.) Kinda cool, but maybe kinda creepy? I mean, the moon isn't *supposed* to look that big! Is it about to come crashing down into my living room?

Mostly I don't really care. I was reading the other day that "lay" and "lie" were basically synonyms till just a few hundred years ago (about the same time that the grammar police were founded, I suspect).

That does indeed sound promising -- as long as they can limit that development to just the teeth that need replacing. This could turn dental implants into a passing fad, like video tape cassettes -- only problem being that the people who already have implants would be kinda stuck with Beta-Max. (I had one implant put in, but the dentist screwed up, so I had to pay an oral surgeon to remove it. Not fun.)

As you presumably know, we do have pretty good replacement teeth, eye lenses, heart valves, hip joints, knee joints, ankle joints, and functional (if not identical looking) replacement feet, and probably several other things. I don't think I'd want to live in a totally artificial body -- though if that eventually becomes commonplace, it might not seem so weird. I had something slightly similar, though I was around 40 at the time. My hair still had its color -- except for a clump of silver hair in front of each ear. My hair was long and unruly, so to keep it out of my face, I would make a braid in front of each ear, using the silver clump for one of the three strands. I thought it looked pretty cool too!

On the other hand, he may be merely *hoping* that's a misspelling.

Hey, watch your language! Have you ever seen the jigsaw puzzle that looks like a pizza? The box says "Looks like pizza. Smells like pizza. Tastes like cardboard." (And yes, it really does smell like pizza. Though I assume the scent might fade away over time.) That one is about my top limit for tricky jigsaws (one slice of onion looks amazingly like each of the others, and same for the pepperoni), Also about my lower limit for pretty pictures. Mostly I like it because the concept is funny.

Mind you, I have not yet (and quite likely never will) read the "Revisiting" story. But going by the review of it that you quoted, here's my opinion: Bessancort's Adler is said to "[haunt] the story ... with her activities teasing the detective." I think that also describes Doyle's original pretty well. But the two versions part ways when "it begins to dawn on us that [Bessancort's version] is a woman with a sinister agenda." This Adler, like the Sherlock character, diverges from Doyle's original by being "nefarious" and "sinister," whereas Doyle's Adler was inventive enough to outwit both Holmes and the King without stooping to anything illegal or even hostile. Why do recent adaptations (including the American TV series Elementary) feel the need to make Adler increasingly criminal? Seems like the easy way out!

OK, so nobody actually needed to follow either link, because the review is already in your post (as you mentioned). I'm gonna clarify that a bit by enclosing that part of your post in a quote box (please let me know if I've put too much or too little into the box). It's a good thing that you did quote the review, because my link no longer leads to the review, only to a very brief teaser-type description of the story. Or I may be misremembering what my link used to lead to. (We have a new kitten in the house, and I've been kinda distracted!)

They should gradually become less frequent and less bright over time. At least, that was my experience. Eventually I would notice them only if I turned my head suddenly in a dark room. And I haven't seen any flashes at all for years now. One thing I recommend for anyone who's not quite as young as they used to be is the Amsler Grid, which looks sort of like a quarter-sheet of black-lined graph paper.. You can print your own from any number of sites, and put in on your bulletin board or the front of your fridge. Whenever you think of it, you cover one eye and stare at the center of the grid for a few seconds, then repeat with the other eye. If the grid doesn't look quite right with either eye, you need to see an ophthalmologist. If I had known about that home test sooner, I wouldn't have a small blind spot in one eye, because they could have started the treatment sooner.

Tbh, I have no idea who they are. They were American TV lawyers (1957-66 and 1986-95, respectively) who (almost) always got their clients acquitted by exposing the real killer on the witness stand. Both were very popular here, but apparently didn't travel widely.

I enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles, but I want the kind that ends up with a pretty picture. Just call me old fashioned! Been years since I worked one, though.

Oh, that was fun! And it wasn't just the flashes, whenever I looked at a bright, uniform surface (e.g., a clear blue sky), it looked like drops of muddy water on a clean windshield. The eye doctor told me it would probably go away, gradually, but if it didn't, I should come back. And if it got worse, I should come back real quick, because it might be the beginning of retinal detachment, which if not treated immediately, could cause blindness. I've had a few minor ones, off and on, for years. Usually they're just sort of blobs, but lately I've been seeing one that looks like a matchstick (without the head) painted black. Dunno what to make of that!

Hi again! I checked the link you left, but didn't get very far because I'm not a Goodreads member, and don't seem much point in joining, since this is the first/only time I've come across anything on there that isn't accessible to everyone. Found another link, though -- is this the same review? That story does sound more my speed than the Sherlock episode. Moffat & Gatiss claim that their adaptation has the equivalent shock value to what Doyle's original story did back then. I have no idea whether that's true, but in any case I think whatever shock value the original may have had was sort of incidental, whereas it seems to be the main point of their episode. Plus it means I need to issue a parental warning whenever I recommend Season 2 to people with kids. Since the new story seems to have been professionally published, it's not fan fiction. I'm going to move this thread to "Other Versions," and leave a temporary link here.

Hello, Steve, and welcome to Sherlock Forum! Sorry, to keep your post in limbo for so long -- the forum staff doesn't have a schedule, we're all volunteers who pop in whenever we have some free time. I have some questions, but need to rush off again. Maybe tomorrow. Sorry!

Hello Adam -- welcome to Sherlock Forum! !