Countdown from 100,000

[SherlockedCAMPer]

98.529 times creative writing moments happen at random and not when you would like them to happen.

[Inge l-w]

98,528 times the name is...C. Auguste Dupin, and the address is ...Faubourg St. Germain. (It was Edgar Allan Poe's 207th birthday anniversary yesterday. Chicken and egg story.)

[SherlockedCAMPer]

98.527 experiments going on at any given moment in Baker Street and not all of them may have been purposely started by Sherlock.

[Ruthyone]

99,963 times Sherlock wondered if Moriarty would show up again.............and again!!!

[Arcadia]

98525 times Moriarty DOES show up again!

[Inge l-w]

98,524 times we're thankful the playful villain is definitely dead! Or is he?

And 98,432 times dear Arcadia took us back a century or so, presumably to keep to the Victorian theme!

Next time suggest counting on fingers!

[SherlockedCAMPer]

98.523 times we throw out random numbers just because we can.

[Arcadia]

98522 flakes of snow on my driveway.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

98.521 Snow flakes in 1 cubic foot of my front yard

[Inge l-w]

98,433 times I have enjoyed every minute of being part of this forum. Do reset the countdown, ladies, please!

[Van Buren Supernova]

98.430 is the right number, I believe.

[Arcadia]

98429 clues before it dawns on me what you all are talking about. (And I believe your number is the right one, VB!)

[Van Buren Supernova]

98.428 times Jeff Hope shaves sloppily.

[Arcadia]

98427 couriers killed off by the Black Lotus Tong.

[Inge l-w]

98,426 times I wonder in which language killed off (double negative) counts as "killed"?

[SherlockedCAMPer]

98.425 times I double check the numbers to see that we are definitely back on the right track for the sequence

[SherlockedCAMPer]

98.424 times some of us initially missed the numbering that happened a page or so before.

[Van Buren Supernova]

98.423 stinky shoes in 221C Baker Street.

[Arcadia]

98422 nuances in colloquial English, among them "killed off" actually being more acceptable usage than "killed" when used in the context of a work of fiction. :p

[Inge l-w]

98,421 times 'killed' troops in Afghanistan or Iraq were not 'killed off', but Merriam-Webster says that 'The BBC decided to kill off some of its most popular programs',

[SherlockedCAMPer]

98.420 times 1 English word or phrase can throw off even a native English speaker.

[Arcadia]

98419 words in the English language I don't know the meaning of but Sherlock probably does.

[SherlockedCAMPer]

98.418 words int he English language we use wrong not even realizing we are doing it.

[Van Buren Supernova]

98.417 characters killed off :p in Games of Thrones compared to 98.416 Sherlock character's fake deaths.

 

{Fun fact (for me) this is actually real scenario of first time I heard about Sherlock, while reading discussion about GoT}

[Arcadia]

98415 times I think I dozed off trying to think of something.