Sherlock's Fun Facts and Trivia

[J.P.]

Well, if there is no Churchill museum around, it might be the reason why people think he's not real. That's why I asked :P

[Arcadia]

 

Hey, I'm dying over here, it's 96 degrees in the shade and I desperately want a chocolate cake that is NOT in my diet and the hiatus just keeps going on forever.... I gotta get my kicks somehow!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Diets are all rubbish. My advice is, have that chocolate cake.

 

Noooo, stop! Ak! That is NOT what I need to hear!!!  Away with you!!!!

 

My weight was starting to affect my health, I truly need to shed quite a bit. I found a Fitbit in a clearance sale, and that helped me to finally get started. Now if I can just stick it out for awhile..... (Mournfully eyes the carrot I'm having in place of cake... )

 

Well, if there is no Churchill museum around, it might be the reason why people think he's not real. That's why I asked :P

 

I'm still puzzling over the logic of this one....

[kimber8ada]

This is probably not the right place for this but please move it if necessary. I was watching an episode of NCIS this week and a character,upon learning he was to go to London for a case, quipped "Good thing I got caught up on my 'Sherlock' this weekend!" I thought this was so neat. I listened to it twice to make sure I heard correctly!

[Arcadia]

NCIS, huh? Sherlock has officially gone mainstream..... :d

[T.o.b.y]

There was an interview in a German news magazine the other day with a real-life female assassin. Now suddenly, Mary doesn't seem quite so fantastical a character to me any more... Unfortunately, the article isn't available for free online, otherwise I'd put a link here.

[Arcadia]

Can you remember anything that particularly stood out that related to our Mary?

 

I don't think I have trouble believing in a female assassin nearly as much as I dis-believe such a person would have such a warm, twinkly humor as Mary seems to have.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Isn't it common (I think) for such person to have double persona? When they totally separate and detach business from personal and could be a lovely person outside 'work'.

[Arcadia]

I hope not! :p Of if they did, I just don't see how they could hide it from the most observant man in the world.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I think he sees it, he just chose to not see it. You know, the screen called sympathy.. yadda.. yadda...

[Arcadia]

Mmmm ... maybe.

[T.o.b.y]

Can you remember anything that particularly stood out that related to our Mary?

 

I don't think I have trouble believing in a female assassin nearly as much as I dis-believe such a person would have such a warm, twinkly humor as Mary seems to have.

 

Her personality didn't really come across much. There weren't any pictures of her face and her responses were translated from a different language. What particularly stuck out to me was a "it's just a job" sort of attitude. She was married, her husband in a similar line of work. For her, it all seemed pretty normal the way she described it. She did say something along the lines of "people like (insert a real-life equivalent to Magnussen here) should be killed, that's why there's people like us." Not those exact words, but close enough. She stressed that they don't go out and shoot down just anybody as long as the price is right.

[Arcadia]

Wow. Still, that would be what I would expect, and what I still have trouble attaching to Mary's persona ... the callous indifference, in spite of what she said about CAM. Well, we shall see. Maybe. Someday. Or not.....

 

Thanks Toby!

[T.o.b.y]

I think we all have kind of a "callous indifference" when it comes to our jobs. If you do something daily and surround yourself with people who do the same thing, you think of it as normal, no matter how crazy or violent or just plain weird it may be.

[LadyCumberBunny]

I suppose this would be the best thread to mention this little tidbit on...

 

Did anyone else notice in TSoT when Sherlock is reading the telegrams at the wedding, there is one that says something along the lines of "wish you're family could've been here to see this -- Cam" in reference to Mary?

 

I didn't notice it until my seventh viewing of it, and all of the sudden LIGHTBULB!

 

Cam....CAM! As in Charles Augustus Magnnusen! And it explains the look on Mary's face after it was read.

[Arcadia]

I think we all have kind of a "callous indifference" when it comes to our jobs. If you do something daily and surround yourself with people who do the same thing, you think of it as normal, no matter how crazy or violent or just plain weird it may be.

I've been mulling this over for awhile, and although I see what you mean, I have to say that doesn't apply to me ... I'm passionate about my job, and I know what I do isn't "normal." But then I'm an artist and a teacher ... "callous indifference" would not be a good prerequisite for that job, unlike, say, a policeman or a doctor (or an assassin ). I think a certain level of detachment must be crucial to doing those jobs well, and I assume that's what you meant. But I still have trouble seeing Mary as that detached.

 

I suppose this would be the best thread to mention this little tidbit on...

 

Did anyone else notice in TSoT when Sherlock is reading the telegrams at the wedding, there is one that says something along the lines of "wish you're family could've been here to see this -- Cam" in reference to Mary?

 

I didn't notice it until my seventh viewing of it, and all of the sudden LIGHTBULB!

 

Cam....CAM! As in Charles Augustus Magnnusen! And it explains the look on Mary's face after it was read.

Well, you're one up on me -- I didn't notice it until someone pointed it out on this forum! I would make a lousy detective.

[Van Buren Supernova]

I think we all have kind of a "callous indifference" when it comes to our jobs. If you do something daily and surround yourself with people who do the same thing, you think of it as normal, no matter how crazy or violent or just plain weird it may be.

  

I think it's spot on, sometimes in highly stressful job, that is what you have to do.

 

Having said that, I can also see reasoning that you are still what you are. My tough friend who worked as prison officer and child protection service (at different period) gave it up because she couldn't stand it anymore after 'successfully' applying 'detachment' for many long years.

 

Cam....CAM! As in Charles Augustus Magnnusen! And it explains the look on Mary's face after it was read.

I didn't notice it too and read about it here. I blame it on finding out about Sherlock late and couldn't wait to see what others think of it before going on rewatch.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Being kind and excellent in social norm :p XD , I thought you guys might care why manholes are normally round.

 

 

Here is the main reason:

And round shape costs less to make too.

[Arcadia]

 

Having said that, I can also see reasoning that you are still what you are. My tough friend who worked as prison officer and child protection service (at different period) gave it up because she couldn't stand it anymore after 'successfully' applying 'detachment' for many long years.

 

Ha. I fell asleep thinking about my response, and now I can't remember what it was. And it was so brilliant, too! :p

[Van Buren Supernova]

Well I was preparing for meeting at work and can't remember my counter response to your brilliant response, but gotta tell you, it's killing.

[Arcadia]

That's what we get for multi-tasking. You give up work, I'll give up sleep, we'll both be fine. xd

[Van Buren Supernova]

Of course, look how we are able to have intelligent conversations while multi tasking , and I can't think of anything more relevant than researching about manhole shape while making power point presentation.

[Van Buren Supernova]

The Groombridge Place estate is approximately 200 acres and includes a canal, vineyard, arable farmland, and area of ancient woodland.

 

Conan Doyle was friends with the owners during the early 1900s. He used the place as inspiration for ‘The Valley of Fear’ in 1914, renaming it ‘Birlstone Manor’.

 

[Van Buren Supernova]

At wedding, bride normally stands on the left side of the groom so his sword hand is free.

 

This comes from the old days when the groom needs to defend his bride from other suitor, or, to fight the family of the bride, because, he has just kidnapped the bride. The classic "marriage by capture".

 

Hi Sherl.

 

Okay, John is slacking off here. I know he is left handed, but his gun-hand is right side. Lucky Sherlock got it covered.

Oh. Oh. Foreshadowing that Mary is the one who kidnaps him? Groan.

[Arcadia]

Yep. Must be. Good sleuthing!

[Van Buren Supernova]

 

One of the most bizarre psychosomatic illness is Puppy Pregnancy Syndrome, happens in rural areas of several states in India.

 

Sufferers, including man, woman and children, believe that puppies are conceived inside them after being bitten by dog, because they believe dog saliva contains dog gametes.

 

The beliefs are wide spread in those area that there are medical specialists for that condition, offering oral cures to dissolve the puppies or other measures.

 

Some researchers believe that PPS meets the criteria of Culture Bound Disorder (combination of psychiatric and somatic symptoms viewed as recognizable disease only within specific society or culture) that is a result of mass delusional belief linked to community, which also affect higher educated people.