Sherlock's Fun Facts and Trivia

[Van Buren Supernova]

Don't worry. The tapeworm diet I was talking about has no resemblance to spaghetti at all. It's in pill shape. :p

It will then (supposedly) reach maturity in the intestines and absorb food, and it can grow up to 30feet (9meter!). When the dieters reaches the desired weight, they would then find a way to get rid of it, provided they survive all the negative impacts of having them inside the body, they still have to survive the 'extraction' method.

 

See it's not like what you think, so I hope you are able to enjoy your breakfast now? :p

[Arcadia]

Oh god, after reading that I think I'm going to lose my dinner.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Dear me, maybe I should try to make a living by selling effective diet plan with my stories? :p

[besleybean]

People always ask me my secret for having lost so much weight.

I always laugh:  just not eating...is the obvious reply!

Well really it is eating less and only the right things.

[Van Buren Supernova]

The Iceman...

 

 

If only Mycroft knows who else is being named Iceman, or maybe he does.

 

Richard Kuklinski, was an American, a seemingly happily married man with three kids, a cold-blooded serial killer and professional hitman convicted of five murders but allegedly had killed hundreds since he was 14 years old.

He shot, stabbed, strangled, bashed, burned and dismembered people, used firearms, hand grenades, chainsaw, ice pick, crossbow, bomb, bare hand and his favorite, cyanide solution sprayed on victim's faces.

 

He was nicknamed The Iceman by the media because of he sometime froze his victims to thwart the efforts of forensic examiners.

 

His criminal life had been made into book, documentaries and movie.

[besleybean]

Who would love to read Holmes stories written from Mycroft's point of view?!

[Van Buren Supernova]

Well, but it would be frigging difficult to follow.

 

He would name everyone else as Goldfish #1, Goldfish #2 etc, and then suddenly a chapter would turn gibberish because he has just mastered a new language.

 

Also, because he hates legworks, he doesn't describe a setting well, but just include links for everything.

 

Then, he would have long winding chapter about umbrella, only umbrella. Then plum pudding. Then cakes. Then exercise.

 

Well, the plus thing is, he probably would talk about Sherlock as a pirate and talks about potatoes that constantly piling on his laptop.

 

 

Short answer: YES

[Van Buren Supernova]

Okay, the only time I want to be a queen is when I learn that she has 1:12 scale very realistic doll house with outstanding collections of real art works. Holy carbonara, those royalties and rich people. Money and power can't buy happiness eh? Eh? EH?

 

Originally built for Queen Mary in thanks for her presence in WWI, this dollhouse has saloon, kitchen, dining room, fully stocked wine cellar, garden, strong room for the crown jewels, garage with its contents, many others, include fully furnished interiors with amazing details and realism, it also has electricity, running hot and cold water, working lifts and flushing lavatories.

I can't even...!

 

 

The connection with Sherlock.

Well, this doll house has a very exquisite library, with real tiny books written by real writers, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about Sherlock. In a book measured at 38.5 X 30mm (Holy smoke! Good god! Damn my leg!) titled How Watson Learned The Trick, tells story about how John trying his ability in deduction game.

 

 

 

 

 

Downplaying Holmes's skills, Watson remarks over breakfast: 'I was thinking how superficial are those tricks of yours…Your methods are really easily acquired'. He goes on to deduce that Holmes's unshaven appearance indicates that the detective is 'greatly preoccupied' and that his friend's interest in the financial page of the newspaper reveals that Holmes has turned to financial speculation. Unfortunately, Watson is proven wrong at each turn – in fact Holmes has sent his razor to be sharpened, and the cricket page is adjacent to the financial page.

 

 

P.S ahem.. if it sounds like I am fully envious while creating this post... WELL I AM!

[Arcadia]

I don't care about owning that dollhouse, but I sure wouldn't mind living in it. As long as someone else cleans it ....

[J.P.]

It looks a bit big for 1:12. But it doesn't matter that much.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Yes..I think it's more suitable for 1:6. Which is pretty nice since my Sherlock is 1:6. Oh dear..

[Van Buren Supernova]

Beside Sherlock, John and Molly, someone else has.. eh.. had a blog.

Connie!

 

Well, too bad..

 

 

This is how it looks like normally

 

And... I noticed little gem here.

It's our Molly!!! Poor Molly.

[Arcadia]

I wonder why they stopped doing John's blog ... I miss it.

[J.P.]

They need someone to run it. Someone definitely better than the author of Molly's blog or Sherlock Live. Could be a great marketing gag, and I have a feeling they botched it a bit. But again - it would need a LOT of attention.

[Arcadia]

They could have just kept doing it the way it was done before, it seems to me. That was plenty for me.

[Van Buren Supernova]

Yes, especially they make a lot of mention to it.

They can hire us... :p

You guys do the fact check and all tedious stuff, I'll pose as Sherlock and theimprobableone

[Arcadia]

Oooh, oooh, can I be Stella and Ted? I want to make Sherlock roll his eyes!

[Van Buren Supernova]

Yes of course.

But wait, if I roll my eyes as myself, do I need to roll them as Sherlock and improbableone?

 

Because there will be a lot of eyerolls! Eyes will roll!

[Arcadia]

Whatever you're drinking, I want some.

[Van Buren Supernova]

You are not the first, second or even third person who said that to me.

 

I'm starting to suspect my plain old sugarless green tea is not what it is.

[Van Buren Supernova]

The Creeping Man tells a case about a respected Professor Pressbury and his mysterious changing behaviours after taking treatment of rejuvenating serum extracted from a monkey, black-faced langur, published in 1923, was probably influenced by real life scientific experiment in 1920.

 

 

Surgeon named Serge Voronoff, learned transplantation technique from respected Nobel Price winner, Alexis Carrel, was interested in finding solution to reverse aging process that he called rejuvenation.

 

Veronoff believed that testosterone produced by the testes, was the key to that. In earlier experiments he injected himself with dog and guinea pig testicles under his own skin. When it failed to show significant effects, he revised his method into cross-species glandular transplantation surgery, like transplanting testicles of executed criminals into rich old guys as treatment for senile and schizophrenia. Because demands exceeded supply, he began to use monkey testicles, first "monkey gland" to human transplant took place in 1920. Thin slice of testicle would be inserted into recipient's scrotum, the theory was that it would fuse with the host tissues so that they would receive rejuvenation and renewed vigor. His work was applauded by world's leading surgeons at International Congress of Surgeons in London in 1923 and published in respected journals from The Lancet to Scientific American. He even had to set up his own monkey farm to keep up with the demands.

 

However, after years, hundreds of patients, the treatment was not proven and even resulted in various complications, infections and shocks. Veronoff's reputation was ruined, clinic disappeared, and he died in obscurity.

 

[Arcadia]

!!!

[Van Buren Supernova]

Reality is, more often than not, stranger than fiction.

[Shadow Dweller]

And now we use pig organs :lol:

[Van Buren Supernova]

When the supernova projection program was playing in the planetarium, as one of the filler/distraction it said that Planet Earth would fit inside Jupiter 11 times.

 

 

Actually, Jupiter's diameter is indeed roughly eleven times Earth's, but in this case, volume should be used. So, with Jupiter's diameter of roughly 139,882km and Earth's 12,742km and sphere volume formula being 4/3 pi r^3, Jupiter could actually fits about 1321 Earths.

 

:p