The Geek Interpreters

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

It's hardly important.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Are you saying you're an exiled Scottish noblewoman? 

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I do hold title to a very small plot of land in Scotland, not exiled though.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Ah.  Cool!

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I want to go see it when I get to England next years.

[Carol the Dabbler]

I do hold title to a very small plot of land in Scotland....

 

I want to go see it when I get to England next year.

 

 

Actually, I think you'd have to go to Scotland for that! 

 

[besleybean]

That sentence is very odd!

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I think Carol is pulling my leg, just a little bit.

[jesskayding]

I do hold title to a very small plot of land in Scotland, not exiled though.

 

Are you willing to sell it?

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

I can't sell it but I would be able to make you my heir.

[jesskayding]

Oh nice. I'm sure we're around the same age. And based of my family history, I'll be lucky to make it past 60.

[Carol the Dabbler]

So that's what you meant when you said "if I get old" -- well, take good care of yourself, and I wish you the best of luck!

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Will be routing for you Jess! Prosperity and long life, may you live long and prosper.

[J.P.]

Sherlock deduced that the man in the restaurant is about to become father, because the sound of his text message was a baby's cry.

 

Can anyone read lips? I wonder what Sherlock not-said to Jim at the pool when Jim is answering the phone.

4. Is anyone else driven to distraction by the close-ups of the back of BC's head? Oh, that curl....

 

It's not only in TEH.

[sfmpco]

I have heard some say that John blinked SOS at Sherlock in TGG.

[Arcadia]

Sherlock deduced that the man in the restaurant is about to become father, because the sound of his text message was a baby's cry.

 

OMG, is THAT what it is? I heard the baby cry but I never realized it was his ring tone. Thanks, that's one that's been driving me crazy.

 

Can anyone read lips? I wonder what Sherlock not-said to Jim at the pool when Jim is answering the phone.

 

Ariane DeVere says it's "oh, it's fine."

 

 

4. Is anyone else driven to distraction by the close-ups of the back of BC's head? Oh, that curl....

 

It's not only in TEH.

 

 

I know, but for some reason I'm particularly ... uh ... captivated ... by it, in that episode. :P

 

I have heard some say that John blinked SOS at Sherlock in TGG.

 

Yeah, but I've also seen where people say that's not correct. I can't tell, myself.

[besleybean]

The last bit is total fallacy, Mark and Steven have said so.

[J.P.]

I have heard some say that John blinked SOS at Sherlock in TGG.

 

When?

 

[besleybean]

Pool scene, but he doesn't.

[J.P.]

Another question: the unsolved case from TSOT.

What the heck was in that matchbox, anybody has an idea? Something from the canon?

[Carol the Dabbler]

I believe I've heard that the idea of yay-many matchboxes around a dead man are from Conan Doyle, yes -- but in that case the nth box contained a rare tropical beetle or some such thing.  That glowing object is apparently from a (non-Holmes) movie, which I am sure someone will be glad to identify.

 

[Arcadia]

I wish someone would! It seems so familiar but I can't place it .... arrrrghghg....

[Carol the Dabbler]

Google to the rescue!

 

The matchbox itself comes from a brief mention in "The Problem of Thor Bridge":

 

 

 

... the case of Isadora Persano, "who was found stark staring mad with a match box in front of him which contained a remarkable worm said to be unknown to science".

 

(OK, so it was a worm, not a beetle.  And the number 1,812 apparently refers to the war of that year.)

 

And several sites identify the glow as a reference to a glowing briefcase in Pulp Fiction.

 

[Arcadia]

Okay, not acquainted with either of those, yet it still seems familiar to me. I'm thinking some sci fi show or something ... ? Something from Dr. Who maybe? Or I could be making it all up......

[besleybean]

I think it's just supposed to be a bit of fun!