The Geek Interpreters

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

He certainly doesn't "look" like a boffin...that's for sure.  Even if he certainly is one.

[Arcadia]

I'm going to start putting "Boffin Artist" on my business cards. I'll let you know when I land in the psych ward.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Yes, please do. We'll come visit you. I can see their faces when a whole crowd of people come strolling in ....all dressed as the greatest Boffin of them all....asking to see you.

[Arcadia]

Sounds like I'll have fellow inmates soon enough, then!

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Good company all. We'll make it a big party....they either have to keep us sedated or throw us all out in mass.

[jesskayding]

I'm going to start putting "Boffin Artist" on my business cards. I'll let you know when I land in the psych ward.

Be careful. I hear once they put you in one of those places... They like to keep you there.

[jesskayding]

Yes, please do. We'll come visit you. I can see their faces when a whole crowd of people come strolling in ....all dressed as the greatest Boffin of them all....asking to see you.

Ha!

[Arcadia]

They can't keep us there, there will be riots. Daily.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Exactly...and if we didn't incite them....we would execute them ourselves.

[Arcadia]

Darn straight!!!

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Sounds like a bit of fun actually.

[Carol the Dabbler]

... Although he pretends not to care what others think of him... In this modern day version it's important to Sherlock that he looks "cool".

 

 

Turning up the collar on his coat.

 

I shall leap to Sherlock's defense in this particular matter:

 

I share one personal trait with our favorite detective (and the actor who plays him), namely an uncommonly long neck that can easily look out of proportion.  Thus I often resort to various types of "camouflage."

 

This could explain not only the turned-up collar, but also the scarf, and also the open collar (which creates a deep neckline to counterbalance the long neck).

 

[jesskayding]

This is a clever title for this topic of discussion. What does bullux? Mean.

[besleybean]

'Bollocks'?  

Testicles.

[jesskayding]

Wait a minute... Hold up... So uhm, people just casually shout outloud Testicles!, when something sounds unbelievable or if they don't agree with what your saying?

 

I got tell my friend. Her last name is Bullock. If she should ever visit Britain she can't be going around telling people she's Ms. Testicle!

[Carol the Dabbler]

Wait a minute... Hold up... So uhm, people just casually shout outloud Testicles!, when something sounds unbelievable or if they don't agree with what your saying?

 

I got tell my friend. Her last name is Bullock. If she should ever visit Britain she can't be going around telling people she's Ms. Testicle!

 

 

Well, not quite, thank goodness!  Testicles = bollocks, whereas your friend's name is Bullock (which, oddly enough, means a bull without his bollocks).  According to my British dictionary, "bollocks" is a bit of a naughty word, but apparently not bad enough to keep it off of Sherlock.

 

So is shouting "Testicles!" any worse than shouting "Bovine excrement!" -- ?

[besleybean]

Yep.

There was  a famous legal case in the 1970s with the punk band The Sex Pistols, about whether their album title ' Never Mind the Bollocks', was obscene.

[T.o.b.y]

I have a question for you very observant people: Do we know what Mrs Holmes' first and maiden name are? Does it say so on the cover of her book, by any chance? Or in the credits?

[Carol the Dabbler]

Yep.

There was  a famous legal case in the 1970s with the punk band The Sex Pistols, about whether their album title ' Never Mind the Bollocks', was obscene.

 

Who won?

 

I have a question for you very observant people: Do we know what Mrs Holmes' first and maiden name are? Does it say so on the cover of her book, by any chance? Or in the credits?

 

As I recall, they were pretty coy about showing the complete book cover.  According to Ariane DeVere's transcript, though, The book is called “The Dynamics of Combustion” and its author is M. L. Holmes.  And according to IMDb, she's credited as "Mum."

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Mark Gatiss talked to Radio Times about the decision of actually bringing Mummy and Daddy Holmes to the show....but no names were mentioned that I can find.

[jesskayding]

Hmmmmmmmm. The mom looks like a Bridget to me. I thought she called her hubby Tim?... He looks like a Frank or Drummond to me.

 

Cluing for looks

[Carol the Dabbler]

But Bridget doesn't start with either an M or an L.  Of course I suppose the M could actually stand for Mummy!

 

I don't recall her calling her husband anything, but then again, I can't swear that she didn't.  Do you recall what scene you thought she called him Tim in?

 

[Arcadia]

While we're on the subject of British slang, what IS a "git", anyway? I mean, I know what it means to be called a git, but does it have a literal meaning too, like "bollocks" does?

[jesskayding]

But Bridget doesn't start with either an M or an L. Of course I suppose the M could actually stand for Mummy!

 

I don't recall her calling her husband anything, but then again, I can't swear that she didn't. Do you recall what scene you thought she called him Tim in?

I could be imagining things.. I meant to type Tom... I thought it was in HLV, when she came talking to him in that room in their house with the fireplace... When he was talking to Mary.

 

Ok so if it was an M, she looks like a Margaret... If an L, Lorraine?

[Carol the Dabbler]

While we're on the subject of British slang, what IS a "git", anyway? I mean, I know what it means to be called a git, but does it have a literal meaning too, like "bollocks" does?

 

My British dictionary simply calls it slang, meaning "a stupid or unpleasant man."  Aha!  Oxford Dictionaries Online has once more come to the rescue -- they say it originated in the 1940's from the word "get," which in the UK apparently can be used to mean much the same thing as "git."  This is apparently derived from the noun "get" in the sense of "offspring" -- so maybe it's something like saying "son of a <fill in the blank>."

 

Interesting that the British "git" is a variant of "get," just like the American "git" -- though of course the meaning is entirely different.  In at least parts of the US, "git" can mean "get" in the sense of ordering someone to "get out of here" or "get away from me," or "get going."  (Admittedly, around here, "get" is typically pronounced "git"!)

 

I sometimes wonder whether the two meanings could be confused. For example, if one television character was being annoyed by another, he might shout "Git!" -- and British viewers would think he was calling the other guy a bad name, whereas American viewers would think he was telling him to go away.

 

I could be imagining things.. I meant to type Tom... I thought it was in HLV, when she came talking to him in that room in their house with the fireplace... When he was talking to Mary.

Let's see -- she came into that room only once, right? OK, here are the lines where she refers to him or addresses him (from Ariane DeVere's transcript):

(to Mary) Now, if Father starts making little humming noises, just give him a little poke.

 

and

 

(to her husband) Now, no humming, you!

 

Sorry!