You know your "Sherlock" obsession is bad when...

[Inge l-w]

Surely not for a fellow member, Bendyboodle, the Duke of Cumberland was the victor at the Battle of Culloden! Not a happy mind palace place for any Scots anywhere!

[sfmpco]

Bendydoodle, there is a Cumberland Street somewhere near me, and I will take a picture of the street sign just to join you in solidarity!

[Bendydoodle Cantaloupe]

I dunno, it just looked funny to me! :P

 

And sfmpco, there's a Baker Street a little ways from where I am. Next time I go near it I'll stop and take a pic! :lol:

[sfmpco]

I used to know someone who lived on S. Holmes street.  I told her the S was for Sherlock, not South.

[Arcadia]

 

I teach art; the worst thing I ever did to a student was knock over her jar of rinse water, right into her lap. Oh man, was I ever mortified. She was great about it, but I still haven't gotten over the embarrassment. I also note that she hasn't taken any more of my classes (and who can blame her? I'm a menace!  )

 

Hey, that's way, way better than spilling the water on her project!

 

Oh, I did that too. But the project wasn't harmed (nor was she, come to think of it. Just my dignity.)

[J.P.]

... when you try to find the locations for Ugly Duckling visible on Mycroft's monitor. And find two that actually have some strategic importance: Polish Air Force Academy (infiltration) and a huge chemical complex (sabotage).

[Boton]

When you are Googling some random Sherlock Holmes question that popped into mind, and you fat finger it and are accidentally redirected to a listing of a bunch of bee-keeping sites and magazines.  And it takes you several minutes to realize you're in the wrong place, because anything bee-related must be Sherlock-related!

 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

When you find yourself conducting to some of the Sherlock Soundtracks while at a coffee shop and realize that 2 of the songs (Final Act & SHERlocked) you are listening to so far are in 3/4 instead of 4/4 like most of the pieces.  (And I'm really liking the French Horn part in SHERlocked,but I'm slightly biased that way.)

[Carol the Dabbler]

I meant a plastic flying mammal. Would look better than the corpse of a real flying mammal in a frame with equally dead bugs. That box over the fireplace is as disgusting as thumbs in the fridge. Another one is the death mask in the bedroom. Shudder....

Thanks, the bat makes perfect sense now. However, now I am trying to recall a death mask -- and wondering how you know it's a death mask rather than a life mask.

 

... when you try to find the locations for Ugly Duckling visible on Mycroft's monitor. And find two that actually have some strategic importance: Polish Air Force Academy (infiltration) and a huge chemical complex (sabotage).

Must be my week for not understanding you, J.P.! Yes, I know the story of the Ugly Duckling, but don't recall any waterfowl on Mycroft's monitor, or understand what the connection might be to the Polish Airforce or a Chemical company.

[joanneta1]

If you mean what little is visible in TEH during his first English language discussion with Sherlock, is it an Ugly Duckling connotation?

And I am, as of today, a recidivist!

That poor dear girl will come out of the class traumatised or something! This time we were discussing "consequences" as a synonym for "ramifications", prompted by the Moffatt article on what we have all missed, and there was some pretty wild guesswork going on, when she piped up "Does that have anything to do with "subsequent?"...

and I replied with "What must it be like in that funny brain of yours, so calm and so placid!" :facepalm:

 

[T.o.b.y]

... when you're at a big electronics and media store and get distracted all the time by Sherlock-related items. I'm always so happy to see the DVDs, I gravitate towards them as if I'd seen a pair of old friends amongst a crowd of strangers. Then I turn them over affectionately until I remember that I've already got them all, and the British versions too, with no annoying German words floating around on screen.

[J.P.]

Thanks, the bat makes perfect sense now. However, now I am trying to recall a death mask -- and wondering how you know it's a death mask rather than a life mask.

 

 

Must be my week for not understanding you, J.P.! Yes, I know the story of the Ugly Duckling, but don't recall any waterfowl on Mycroft's monitor, or understand what the connection might be to the Polish Airforce or a Chemical company.

 

 

 

Ooops, maybe it's just a week of me not communicating clearly. 

 

 

Death mask - well, it is kind of a tradition to make them, the one in Sherlock's room has a description, some child murder or something. I also read that it is in fact one of the crew members' face casted, but Mr Google hates me today and I cannot find anything.

 

At least I have a pic:

 

 

 

Ugly Duckling - it was the code name for the infamous MI6 mission in East Europe. 

 

 

You see this little frame in the middle? This is the location I looked at. On the upper right corner of the map you can (hardly) read Target located, so I deduced it must be where the mission takes place.

 

Well, those two places I found are the only interesting things in the area.

[Inge l-w]

Heavens! Poland again! Three hundred years of power play and rift, and Mycroft wants Sherlock to go undercover in Poland! I even used Kaliningrad in the Baby Watson scenario! Have they been reading the Game, Set and Match trilogy then?

[SherlockedCAMPer]

When you want the French horn part to all of the Sherlock soundtrack and you're killing your shoulders by conducting along to SHERlocked with full gusto (even as you type this because you are distracted by the music). (and you imagine Sherlock conducting the mentioned piece with a riding crop as you type this because it's getting past your bedtime & Sherlock has to join an actual orchestra [including an actual 'live' performance] to solve a case.)

[J.P.]

Heavens! Poland again! Three hundred years of power play and rift, and Mycroft wants Sherlock to go undercover in Poland! I even used Kaliningrad in the Baby Watson scenario! Have they been reading the Game, Set and Match trilogy then?

 

Would you like to explain, please? 

[Inge l-w]

Dear J.P., there have been three partitions of Poland, starting with Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great and Maria Theresia of Austro-Hungary and lasting until the end of WWI, and I used the Kaliningrad premise in SherlockedCamper's thread about what would be the worst thing that could happen to Baby Watson at 221B.

[J.P.]

Okay, I see what you meant historically, but Kaliningrad never belonged to Poland, that's why I was a little bit confused.

 

Anyway, I found those amazing posts by Zain HERE and HERE where she finds the Polish connection being Irene Adler. Well, it is also possible that the makers just wanted to aim at Warsaw, but slipped a little bit south-east from the actual location. :P

[Inge l-w]

It was in Prussia, Koenigsberg; loved Zain's posts, concise and to the point.

[J.P.]

... when you make yourself Sherlock-related Easter goodies.

 

[sfmpco]

Nice!  Nice!  Nice!

[Inge l-w]

Nope, nope, nope, no way! Do you actually like that wallpaper motif? The one in the hallway is even worse! Reminded me of my research at the British Library Manuscripts section and the studio flat which had the exact same leaf wallpaper left over from the 90s!

It is worse than the Byronic or Shelleyesque locks! And then they have the gall to come up with lame interviews about their portrayal not being *whatever*!

[J.P.]

I hate that wallpaper. Well, my obsession is REALLY BAD. ;) 

[J.P.]

... when you notice that every second movie in TV takes place - at least partially - in London. 

[SherlockedCAMPer]

When you are sitting in a doctor's office waiting room bored and check here every 30 seconds for new content that doesn't exist.

[J.P.]

As long as you don't shoot the wall... :D