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An old friend brought me this shirt from Disneyworld once: In case that's not readable, that's the grumpy dwarf saying, "I'm right, you're wrong, any questions?" I should explain that I was working as a tutor then, and it fit perfectly .

Seconded. This is such a warm, welcoming, yet interesting place. Thank you for giving us such a wonderful little corner of the www.

Back to Sherlock, sharing tips with his colleague ...

Glad you liked it (parts of it, anyway) ! I must admit I had no idea that Jonathan Aris was in it, it's been a while since I saw it.

I don't know about Britain, but here in Austria it's not really common to specify the time zone in everyday use, seeing as we only have one (therefore TV programmes start at the same time for everybody, and so on). I know the term CET (Central European Time) and that it's GMT+1, but that's mostly from setting it when I register at some international site etc.. It's really only Sommerzeit (summer time) and Winterzeit (winter time) otherwise, and I guess it's not that different in the UK.

Here's a delightful interview with Martin Freeman: He's really, to quote tvtropes, the master of the Precision F-Strike .

Now, now, in the endless multiverse of fiction, there are plenty of parallel personae of our favourite detective for everybody. Can I interest you in a Little Favour while tonnaree enjoys her shower?

Hi Jane and . And don't worry, people on this board are very kind to us non-native speakers .

I don't think tonnaree would mind the company much .

You and me both . However, given that he's stated several times that the ending will be "bittersweet", I don't hold out much hope.

I just found this link on another forum and wanted to share it with you ... touching story, and I can't wait to see the videos.

Maybe Moriarty simply picked the lock - I think this is fairly easy with non-security locks; when I locked myself out of our old car once, the friendly tech the breakdown service sent opened the door in under 10 seconds (I told him I sure was glad he was working for the good guys ). Ms. Hudson probably has a fairly old lock on her front door.

Hi SH/LotR/Zelda Fan and welcome ! Nice to see another gamer around here .

But eyes can change colour. My best friend when we both were in our teens had (well, still has) glasz eyes (since she did some acting, there's a photo of her as a teen here, though it doesn't do her eyes justice), and they changed when she was very happy, sad or angry - they don't seem to do that so much these days, but teenage emotions tend to run higher than an adult's. I think it has to do with blood vessels dilating or constricting and therefore changing the overall colour, just as they do in our skin. Glasz eyes are just so bright that the effect is more noticeable than with other colours, just as a pale person's blushing is more prominent. And having eyes comparable to Mr. Freeman's sounds wonderful as well . His are of a most amazing warm colour.

Wow, learn something new every day. So you two not only share eye colour with our favourite detective, it's a magical, changing colour with a long tradition in the fine arts to boot? Colour me and my dull blue eyes impressed (and jealous) . As for how to pronounce it, I'll leave that one to the native speakers. Maybe in a French accent .

Maybe they have trusty bike couriers on standby for urgent documents and messages they'd rather not phone for fear of being wiretapped (a bike courier can be intercepted, but not withot notice).

As if there were that many left .

Well, reactions were intense, it seems - even GRRM himself found it hard to watch apparently. Haven't seen the episode yet, I've become a bit numb to the whole series since he keeps delaying the next book (where something actually happens, I should add), but I'm planning to watch this one since I've heard good things about it. Numbness or not, I must say that reading that chapter was one of the most intense reading experiences of my whole life. I could hear that damned music in the background as I read on and on, caught in train-wreck-fascination.

Just fyi, Carol and Fox, there is a word for your eye colour, well, a neologism anyway. You (and Benedict Cumberbatch) have glasz eyes .

And continuing my attempt to derail this "Hey it's not Sherlock, but at least it's got Benedict Cumberbatch in it" humour thread: (source)

Eye color, the're apparently working on it, as long as you're pining for blue eyes (don't think anything else is possible so far, but Julia Mae can probably tell you more). Skin color, well, there's Michael Jackson, but he had vitiligo afaik. So there's not much change possible at the moment, but in the 23rd century, who knows.

That part is supposedly intact, according to Memory Alpha. Khan also mentions just prior to revealing his name, and the way he does reveal it makes it seem like he's waiting for a reaction from Kirk, that Kirk *should* have heard of him. So the Eugenic Wars probably did happen; they were long before Nero showed up, anyway.

Not exactly Sherlock Humour, but well, Khan is in there, and Moriarty might as well be: eta: okay, that came out way too small, let's try this:

On the other board there were several theories about pale!Khan, some in-universe and some not: .) He's been surgically altered, because otherwise he'd have been way too notorious to move unnoticed, having been a famous historical villain and whatnot .) The augmenting process scrambled some genes and made him an albino, and the hair's just dyed .) They were reluctant to cast anyone looking even remotely Middle-Eastern after 9/11, given the film's theme and Khan's doings .) Does it matter? Benedict Cumberbath is brilliant in this, he could be purple-skinned for all I care Personally, I couldn't quite understand why that was such a topic at all. The only (minor) beef I had with casting was that the admiralcy conference was such a human's club and sausage-fest. I understand that the Enterprise itself is male-dominated for precedence reasons, but since the 23rd century is supposed to be fully egalitarian, they should have put some alien expats and more women in Starfleet High Command, imho.

Ouch - that's tough, aely, being left dangling for 16 years ... was it even known that there would be another one or were you left with nothing but a faint hope that maybe someday, somehow, the series would continue? Because I do know about that kind of waiting, I stumbled upon some book called A Game Of Thrones all the way back in 1996, and since it had a recommendation by Marion Zimmer Bradley on its first page, decided to pick it up (the jury's still out if that was a good move). Seventeen years later, the author, who has been dubbed by fans, still shows no sign of finishing the sixth book, which isn't even the last one in the series, and the last two books didn't really move the plot forward to any great degree - the last book to do so was A Storm Of Swords, which came out in 2000. Ever since, we've been waiting for Tyrion to freaking meet Daenerys already . Still, waiting for Sherlock feels harder somehow ... maybe it's because I've become numb in regards to A Game Of Thrones over the years, though -_-. eta: If you want to see how intense other people's feeling evoked by A Game Of Thrones still are, however, apparently *the* most memorable scene from book 3 (I swear I could hear that bloody music in the background when I read it) took place in the HBO show yesterday, and here are some reactions (could be spoilerish) by people who apparently hadn't been forewarned by the book. And the poor dears don't even have our trusty shock blanket.