Sherlock's Fun Facts and Trivia

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The London Underground Lines in Sherlock Are All Wrong

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This could also fit into the "Bad Obsession" thread:

A Study in Scarves

 

 

The luxury one in S3. Maybe a present from Mycroft? The replica of this scarf is like 400 $.

Oh no wonder. The 5" figurine is using this scarf, I was wondering if they get their own props wrong because I only remember blue ones without stripes.

Thank you! Now I can quarrel with the figurine again without mentioning the wrong scarf.

400 for the replica! Dear me, Sherlock. Dear me.

 

Okay, now you're just making stuff up. XD

Nope nope, of course. I won't compromise the integrity of the crimescene..eh..this thread.

Found those in the casebook :P

 

Oh.. I would be happy to provide link for other fun facts for further reading should anyone interested to know. I don't keep them, but it should only a bit of time to dig them back.

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The London Underground Lines in Sherlock Are All Wrong

Wow, this guy does his homework.

 

 

 

Here are other fun things from the casebook:

 

Sherlock's comment on John's The Blind Banker write-up,"Oh. The one where a clearly stupid woman mistakes you for me."

 

 

Some titles from Sherlock's book collection:

 

The Stray Animal Cookbook,

 

An Illustrated Guide to Human Decomposition,

 

How to Kill a Man With Cutlery.

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The Stray Animal Cookbook! Oh, Sherlock!
:D

Think I'll just stick this here...

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About bomb switch, apparently it's a real thing, and save lives before.

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Article link: US atomic bomb detonation avoided by 'the slightest margin of chance'

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Except that wasn't an off switch; it was an on switch that never turned on, thankfully. Scary stuff, isn't it?

 

I went to university in North Carolina; every once in awhile you could hear jets screaming overhead, then suddenly veering away. I was told they were practicing dive-bombing, and rumor had it their target was an electronic device underneath the campus library. (!) We used to joke about them accidentally blowing the student body to smithereens, although I imagine the real danger was from planes crashing. Either way, it was rather nerve-wracking to hear them up there!

 

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Waks.. but they never really drop anything right?? Because, practicing dive-bombing, beside the maneuvering, do they practice the dropping as well, because it's essential?

Yes, whatever it is, must be scary and loud, can imagine that.

 

 

Few days late for April Fools,

In 1965, for April Fool's prank, a Copenhagen newspaper, Politiken, reported that all black dogs have to be painted white by Danish new law, so the dogs would be more easily seen at night to increase road safety.

PC aside, maybe white painted hound would be less scary, if anyone wanted to try the painting job? (look at Arcadia)

 

There are quite a number of people who survived headshot injuries, and able to lead normal life beside some setbacks such as memory loss, difficulty to process information and other brain injury complications.

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Well, they never dropped anything on me, but the way some of my classmates acted ... not so sure about them! :d

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:lol: :lol: suddenly I have so many fun scenarios and images in my head about the way your classmates act :P

 

 

 

Jim from IT's email address is jim@dynamicasteroid.com

 

Golem's real name is Oscar Dzunda.

 

 

[J.P.]

Dzundza.

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Eh.. not according to Casebook.

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:lol: :lol: suddenly I have so many fun scenarios and images in my head about the way your classmates act :P

 

 

Like they were high, mostly. Which, come to think of it, they probably were.

[J.P.]

Opsie...

 

ETA: no opsie: http://www.sherlockology.com/characters/oscar-dzundza-the-golem

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As Ariane DeVere has pointed out more than once, the Sherlock crew is not noted for their spelling skills.... :p

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Sherlockology and many other sources indeed spell it as Dzundza, real person exists with that name as well.

 

But I wonder though, where do they get the spelling from? I honestly don't know how names are normally spelled in Czech Republic, Golem's so-called origin, however, there is no hard and fast rules for name spelling right? Eventhough it's common name, let alone eh.. weird ones. :P

 

The Casebook is by BBC, the creator/direct handlers of the series, and they write it at least twice in different form, a typo is hardly repeated that way.

 

So.. I'd say... we are bored.

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Like they were high, mostly. Which, come to think of it, they probably were.

Oh. Did the veggies in uni cafetaria tasted funny to you? XD

 

 

Another fun fact:

 

Some western airlines omit row 13 that is considered as unlucky number. Japanese, Vietnam, Korean and Chinese cultures consider 4 as unlucky number, in Italy and Brazil the unlucky number is 17.

However, there is no consistency in airline seating superstition, for example some Asian-based airlines also avoid number 13, or certain western airline has row 13 only in some of their planes, not all. Many airlines don't adopt superstition in their sitting arrangement, sometimes missing numbers are associated more to practicality and business approach than superstitions.

[J.P.]

You wouldn't believe what can happen in the Typo-Department while editing a book.

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Sherlockology and many other sources indeed spell it as Dzundza, real person exists with that name as well.

 

But I wonder though, where do they get the spelling from? I honestly don't know how names are normally spelled in Czech Republic, Golem's so-called origin, however, there is no hard and fast rules for name spelling right? Eventhough it's common name, let alone eh.. weird ones. :P

 

The Casebook is by BBC, the creator/direct handlers of the series, and they write it at least twice in different form, a typo is hardly repeated that way.

 

So.. I'd say... we are bored.

Yes indeedy. Bored, bored, bored. Good thing I don't own a gun.

 

 

Like they were high, mostly. Which, come to think of it, they probably were.

Oh. Did the veggies in uni cafetaria tasted funny to you? XD

Oi. I spent a semester working in the cafeteria, I could tell you stories about that place that would make your hair stand on end. To this day I will not eat in one as a result. Terrifying.

 

You wouldn't believe what can happen in the Typo-Department while editing a book.

Oh yes I would. One of my early jobs included typing up manuscripts for publishing, then proofreading the "typeset" copy -- because clearly the typesetters didn't! One was a book of poetry; I remember one poem was spread across three pages. The third page had only the second half of the word "believe" on it; hyphenated in the wrong place. Like this: "-ieve."

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We have had ads printed with dummy text

 

The Murphy's Law of DTP - You won't see any mistakes unless you see the first hard copy.

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:D :D

I would to, saw many typos in international level publication of all sorts.

But I would say for name, you can never be sure which one is right. GRRM, GoT author, is also known to spell character names in unconventional ways, purposely. I have strong suspicion that Dzundza is taken from real name (the 'normal' way of spelling) but the creator might want to do something different? Do I give them toomuch credit, would you have time to ask them at the con? :P

 

Anyway, actually, my real name is very common but has weird spelling too. In high school, there was another gal with same name, same height, same hair, similar face feature and body type, but her name is using common spelling. Well, nobody had hard time differentiating us anyway, I was a an unconventional nerd and she was a proper slutty lady. XD

 

Oi. I spent a semester working in the cafeteria, I could tell you stories about that place that would make your hair stand on end. To this day I will not eat in one as a result. Terrifying.

I have an informal rule; I don't look at the kitchen where I have my meals. XD

I know exactly what you mean, did some social works in deserted island before, and we were the kitchen squad. The way we made tomato soup (or sauce or whatever) was horrifying, and other menus..

Or when I had very delicious dinner at a friend's house and then I went into her kitchen and saw how unkept it was. And well, a crazy one, couple of years ago, we had Christmas dinner at a co-worker house. Everything was fine and good, she has nice apartment. I always enjoy my drink with ice and we made barbeque etc, frozen meat, fresh fruit etc. Then we found out (luckily not that very night) that she put her dead cat in the fridge's freezer before she made cremation arrangement because she wanted to give her boyfriend chance to see it for the last time. Gah..

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At least it wasn't a head! :d

[J.P.]

Today on Twitter:

 

Oh My Jod ‏@fervidasaflame Apr 2

 

David Nellist: "My Dad was a ship builder"

 

Runs in the family, apparently

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Why everytime I look at Sherlock's pictures, there is a warm fuzzy feeling?

I think I broke myself watching this series.

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From Scientific American article:

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