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From: Chuck.Lavazzi@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi)
Subject: Re: A&E Sherlock Holmes Week
Organization: Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:38:17 GMT

In article <TORKEL.92Sep9193906@bast.sics.se> torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen) writes:
>In article <1992Sep9.170552.25326@ra.oc.com> mvick@hp835.mitek.com 
>(Marty A. Vick) writes:
>
>   >I believe his name is David Burke. He makes an excellent Watson.
>
>  Hmm..this doesn't sound familiar. As I think of it, I think the actor
>playing Watson to Jeremy Brett's Holmes is called Hardwick or Hardwicke.
	You're both right; there have been *two* Dr. Watsons in the series.
Hardwicke is, I believe, the current one.

Chuck

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From: jill@gopher.ccbr.umn.edu (Jill Hollifield)
Subject: HBO Holmes?
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Distribution: USA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 13:20:50 GMT

Does anyone remember a Holmes play on HBO within the past 10 years
starring Frank Langella?

Or am I just hallucinating?
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From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
Subject: Re: homosexuality
Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
	<1992Sep9.232004.20140@news2.cis.umn.edu>
	<1992Sep10.054008.28619@csi.uottawa.ca>
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 19:18:52 GMT

In article <ART.92Sep14105915@world.std.com> art@world.std.com (Al Thompson)
 writes:

   >Oscar Wilde was jailed for criminal libel.  He publicly exposed his
   >affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, son of the Marquis of Queensbury of
   >boxing rules fame.  Queensbury pressed charges against Wilde on the issue
   >and truth was no defense to libel.

  I don't think you have this right. Didn't Wilde prosecute Queensbury - who
had designated Wilde a "sodomite" - for libel, and lost? And was himself
subsequently prosecuted for unnatural acts, or sodomy, or homosexuality,
or whatever it was called, as a result of his disastrous performance in
that trial?

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From: nickles@sage.cc.purdue.edu (john a nickles)
Subject: Re: Conan Doyle and Piltdown
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 03:32:15 GMT

>>In article <1992Sep10.143445.3849@ils.nwu.edu> wallis@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Mindy Wallis) writes:
>>>I have read in several different places that Arthur Conan Doyle may have
>>>been the perpetrator of the Pildown Man hoax.  Can anyone supply more
>>>details?  Why do they suspect Conan Doyle?  Was he fed up with the
>>>anthropology community? If so, why?  Why did he never reveal it as a hoax?
>>


Although most scholars today do indeed implicate Dawson, Doyle was suspected
as the hoaxer for quite a few years. At the time he had a cottage near
Piltdown and was known to have a grudge against scientists. (Specifically,
those scientists who scoffed spiritualism.) As a medical man, it would have
been easy for him to obtain a human skull (though how he could have obtained 
an ape's jawe is another matter. This is explained in a Discover (the science
magazine , not the credit card) article from the early eighties (I can't remember
the exact date.
Doyle's involvement in the Pildown hoax is also explored in a god-awful
fictionalization about the incident called "Skullduggery" (author mercifully
forgotten). Doyle appears in three chapters and behaves like three different
characters in each one. In one, he behaves exactly like Sherlock Holmes
(to the extent of dramatically waving a revolver and instantly deducing 
who really planted the skull. In another, he just stands about mouthing
Spritualistic tracts. And in the third, he crawls through Soho with 
Oscar Wilde!!! (While it is true that Doyle met Wilde (they had the 
same publisher) they never went drinking together and Wilde had NOTHING
to do with Piltown, being dead at the time.

John A. Nickles
Standard Disclaimer: Purdue has their opinions, I have mine
"The Press, Watson, is a valuable instrument, if you know how to use it"

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From: whitney@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (David Whitney GDP)
Subject: Re: Shocked ...
Organization: RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:33:48 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.160951@twinpeaks.gsfc.nasa.gov>, xrjdm@twinpeaks.gsfc.nasa.gov (Joseph D. McMahon) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep9.183018.21589@research.nj.nec.com>, yoko@research.nj.nec.com (Yoko Ozawa) writes:
|> > eric_gorr@coglab_psych.uoregon.edu (Eric Gorr) wrote:
|> > > Yes, I am aware that there is either very little or no mention of it
|> > > in later novels and stories - allowing us to assume that he "kicked"
|> > > the habit.  Thank goodness.  
|> > 
|> > Actually, Holmes' use of drugs are mentioned in quite a few places, he
|> > went through fits of depression (usually, immediately after a great and
|> > stimulating case was solved) when he would reach for his "stuff".
|> > Also, he often crawled into opium dens to sleuth.
|> I'm afraid that you are not correct. The cocaine is mentioned in exactly one
|> tale. There are no further mentions. As to sleuthing in opium dens, recall 
|> that in "The Man with the Twisted Lip" that Holmes was in disguise and 
|> *pretending* to be under the influence - note his quick apprehension that
|> Watson was there and his meeting with him soon after.

Whenever he is on a case I've understood that he never takes drugs, the case is
the drug for him then.  And while I think Sherlock has been _on_ drugs only once
in story (as far as I know), this isn't too surprising because there's not much
written about Sherlock when he's not on a case.  However, Watson mentions many
times that Sherlock has the habit.  I don't have my bound volumes here with me,
but I know that Watson mentioned it in other stories.

________________________________________________________________________
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From: hennessy@acsu.buffalo.edu (Mathew A. Hennessy)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.holmes
Subject: Re: 221-B Baker Street
Date: 14 Sep 92 22:22:33 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UB

In article <1992Sep14.215517.23652@njitgw.njit.edu> lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu (Lawrence C. Mc Abee) writes:
>
>	Nope, there is no 221-B baker street, but the London post office
> gets like tons of letters a year to that address from all over the world.

	As I recall, there was a plaque on 221 Baker Street.. I think it's
some kind of insurance place or something..  saying that this is where 221b
would have been if ever there was a 221b..
		
>
>
>			
>
>-- 
>         "When you have eliminated the possible, whatever remains, 
>         however improbable, must be the TRUTH !" Sherlock Holmes.


-- 
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From: vsummers@polaris.cv.nrao.edu (Vince Summers)
Subject: Re: My favorite edition
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
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Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 17:25:51 GMT

In article <BuMLHo.M15@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> linley@qucis.queensu.ca (Richard Linley) writes:

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   In article <VSUMMERS.92Sep15081208@polaris.cv.nrao.edu> vsummers@polaris.cv.nrao.edu (Vince Summers) writes:
   >In article <1992Sep15.025740.2401@sdcrsi.cray.com> kathyli@sdcrsi.cray.com (the Rev. Mom) writes:
   >
   >   Complete?...Well, lessee... [flip flip]...
   >
   >   Study in Scarlet
   >   The Sign of Four
   >   [others omitted]
   >
   >I don't see the novel in your list that talks about the Mormons.

   It was A Study In Scarlet, Part 2, The Country of the Saints.  The Mormons
   start off sounding charitable enough but end up downright nasty.  Can anyone
   tell this ignorant Canuck how close/way-off Doyle was on the early government
   of Salt Lake City?  Was this really just Mormon-bashing?

	   Richard.

     Richard, what was that fourth novel omitted from the previous posting
that made the 60th story?

Vince
vsummers@polaris.cv.nrao.edu

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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Subject: Sherlock, Mycroft or John ?
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance Company
Distribution: alt
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:05:26 GMT

Or none of the above ?
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From: misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.holmes
Subject: Watson's Second Marriage / Holmes asexual?
Date: 13 Sep 92 21:40:08 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa


   Somebody asked about Watson's second marriage.  The death of Watson's
wife Mary Morstan is mentioned in "The Empty House":  "In some manner he
had learned of my own sad bereavement..."  Then in "The Blanched 
Soldier", set "shortly after the conclusion of the Boer War", Holmes
says:  "The good doctor had at that time deserted me for a wife, the
only action I can recall in the history of our acquaintance."  This
is well after Mary Morstan's death.

   I think Doyle intended only one marriage, but from the confused 
chronology, commentators have "deduced" as many as 6 marriages for 
Watson.  Pretty silly, really.

   Somebody else suggested that Holmes was "asexual".  I think not.
At the end of _The Sign of Four_, when Watson announces his engagement,
Holmes says, "I should never marry, myself, lest I bias my judgement."
If Holmes were asexual, marriage couldn't affect his judgement, could
it?

   None of the above quotations are accurate; I'm quoting from memory.

misrael@csi.uottawa.ca			Mark Israel
Sunbeams brightly play, where Fancy's fair pavilion once is pight.
From: kathyli@sdcrsi.cray.com (the Rev. Mom)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.holmes
Subject: My favorite edition
Date: 12 Sep 92 21:20:54 GMT
Organization: CRS San Diego UUCP Gateway

I started out reading the canon with the Signet paperback two-volume
collection, but it started falling to bits after a couple years, and
when I was looking around for a replacement, I found this wonderful
volume. The date on it is 1990, and I've seen it around, so you can
find it.

It's a big green hardcover.  8.5" x 12", and I remember it being
incredibly inexpensive (i.e. < $20).  The paper's kind of
cheapish and thin.  The publisher is Mallard Press,
ISBN: 0-792-45415-4. It's called "The Original Illustrated
`STRAND' Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Facsimile Edition."

It's *lovely* to have all the stories in their original
double-column type with *all* the illustrations.  Almost
every time you turn a page there's a picture. And occasionally,
because of fronts-and-backs paging, you'll get an original ad
from the pages of The Strand.

*Really* worth the money I spent on it. 

--Kathy Li aka the Rev. Mom
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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Shocked...
Organization: Taronga Park BBS
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 09:39:37 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.190509.11902@m.cs.uiuc.edu> sane@cs.uiuc.edu (Aamod Sane) writes:
>When the Leary's made cocaine and drugs common, and one could see
>lives being destroyed, drugs became dangerous as opposed
>to "fashionably risky".

I think you're doing Leary a disservice here. Cocaine is a primitive raw
stimulant. I don't think he ever advocated use of powerful stimulants or
depressants, just psychoactives.
-- 
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From: night@acm.rpi.edu (Trip Martin)
Subject: Re: Conan Doyle and Piltdown
Reply-To: night@acm.rpi.edu
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 15:31:17 GMT

In <1992Sep10.143445.3849@ils.nwu.edu> wallis@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Mindy Wallis) writes:

>I have read in several different places that Arthur Conan Doyle may have
>been the perpetrator of the Pildown Man hoax.  Can anyone supply more
>details?  Why do they suspect Conan Doyle?  Was he fed up with the
>anthropology community? If so, why?  Why did he never reveal it as a hoax?

>Inquiring minds want to know.

There was an article in Science '85 (or whatever year, it was, I forget now)
which went into some detail about the whole story.  If I recall correctly,
Doyle was a creationist, and cooked up the hoax to embarrass the evolutionists.
In fact, one of the leading creationists had the boldness to predict what 
would be found at the next major discovery, and Doyle used that as the 
blueprint for the Piltdown man!

The evidence was largely much circumstantial, but pretty convincing when taken
all together.  Among other things, one of the pieces was found to be from the
Mediterranean region where Doyle took trips from time to time.  Doyle was
often fond of taking walks that took him right by the site of the Piltdown
man.  I don't recall what the other evidence was since it's been 7 or 8 years
since I read the article.  I recommend the article as it was quite interesting.
-- 
Trip Martin
night@acm.rpi.edu
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From: gsouth@genome.wi.edu (Genome South user)
Subject: Re: So, which Holmes is it?
Organization: Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 11:49:37 GMT

>The thing that makes ME think this is the way Brett's Holmes hold his
>cigarettes.  He tends to hold them between his index and middle fingers
>with the lit end opposite his palm side.  Also, he tends to cross his
>legs when sitting.

European men commonly sit that way, and smoke that way.

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From: zulauf@csn.org (Mike Zulauf)
Subject: Re: So, which Holmes is it?
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:35:44 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.135303.12972@samba.oit.unc.edu> Chuck.Lavazzi@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi) writes:
>
>	If we're talking Sherlock and Mycroft, then I say it's about time;
>always wondered why there was no Sherlockian group on Usenet.

   John Holmes, perhaps?

>	If it's somebody else, I can always unsubscribe......
>
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From: vsummers@polaris.cv.nrao.edu (Vince Summers)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.holmes
Subject: A brett quirk
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:54:36 GMT
Distribution: alt.fan.holmes
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory


     One thing I think that distracts from Brett's performances is his quirky
facial expressions that don't always match what they should be at the time.
It gives a feeling not of superior intellect, but of madness.  At least
Rathbone always gave the feeling of intense, even anxious, interest in things
being said at the time.  Sometimes he showed impatience for lesser intellect,
but never weirdness in his facial expression.

Vince Summers
vsummers@polaris.cv.nrao.edu
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From: eric_gorr@coglab_psych.uoregon.edu (Eric Gorr)
Subject: Re: Shocked...
Organization: University of Oregon Network Services
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 21:30:04 GMT

In article <EJH.92Sep9132043@khonshu.colorado.edu>, ejh@colorado.edu
(Edward J. Hartnett) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Sep9.163035.15364@nntp.uoregon.edu> eric_gorr@coglab_psych.uoregon.edu (Eric Gorr) writes:
> 
> God, another drug-warrior. 

Insults are not necessary.  If you feel you cannot restrain yourself, then
don't reply.

I never once said that I didn't understand all of this or would stop
reading Holmes because of it.  I just shocked me...that is all...nothing
more, nothing less.

But if you are interested, I am totally against the use of illegal drugs,
like cocaine, as all rational people should be.

> Firstly, the reason that S.H. is such a
> memorable character is that he has depth, problems, flaws. He's not
> your typical know-it-all, chisled-looks, strong-yet-sensitive,
> geek's-superhero character. He is troubled by his frantic brain, so
> troubled that he has to resort to drugs unless he has an interesting
> case. 
> 
> Secondly, at the time those stories were written there had not yet
> been the gigantic 'drugs are evil (except for alcohol and tobacco)'
> propaganda campain that we are now subjected to. Cocain and morphine
> were legal, though their abuse was frowned upon. (Incedently, I
> recently read that the doctor of Lincoln's widow prescribed marijuana
> for her, to help her deal with her 'nerves').
> 
> Thirdly, there is no evidence in the stories (as far as I recall - I'm
> sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong) that he ever stopped using
> drugs. He refers to his drug use in several stories.
> 
> 
> --
> Edward Hartnett			ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
> 
> 
> 
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From: sane@cs.uiuc.edu (Aamod Sane)
Subject: Professor Challenger
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:58:35 GMT

Any fans of Prof. Challenger?

Challenger is a	much more childish character than Holmes, but supposedly
ACD liked it better than SH.

The Lost World is fabulous at the right age. 
I was suitably young when I read it, so I have fond memories.

Now I notice it is racist, eurocentric to the extreme - but what
the hell, the world was that way at the time from the POV 
of a citizen of the Empire on which the sun never sets!

Aamod

QOTD:

I have wrought my simple plan
  If I give one hour of joy
To the boy who's half a man,
  Or the man who's half a boy
	- The Lost World - Arthut Conan Doyle

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From: uli@cats.muh.dec.com (OOOO - Open Object-Oriented Ogre)
Subject: ???...? Re: Baker Street Irregulars
Reply-To: uli@decum.enet.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment GmbH   Hoerselbergstr.3  D-8000 Muenchen 80   Germany
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 08:06:06 GMT


Baker Street Irregulars?
Sherlock Holmes Society of London?
Sherlock Holmes Journal?
Baker Street Journal?
..?
Would some kind soul please post references (adrresses, prices,...)
Thanks in advance!

	uli
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From: xoanon@carina.unm.edu (timothy k istian soholt)
Subject: "Eliminate the impossible..."
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 22:14:39 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: na

I just can't resist doing this...

bgrubb@dante.nmsu.edu (GRUBB) writes:

>"Eliminate the impossible and what ever remains, no matter how improble,
>is the truth" -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle through Sherlock Holmes

"I reject that philosophy. The impossible often has a kind of integrity
which the merely improbable lacks." -- Douglas Adams through Dirk Gently

-- Tim Soholt (xoanon@carina.unm.edu), The Man With No .sig

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From: boh@fraser.sfu.ca (Changhao Boh)
Subject: Re: Sherlock's secret love-life Was: So, which Holmes is it?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 04:10:26 GMT

scafati@thor.med.ge.com (Victor-charles Scafati) writes:

>Watson was married _twice_.  While this in itself does not make him exclusively
Hmm.. I know he married the heroin of "The Sign of Four" -- Miss Morstan.  But
where is there mention of his 2nd marriage ?

>Now for Holmes-  If ever there were an asexual individual, it was he.  He was
>constantly dismissing anything that wasn't persuant to his craft (art?), and
>that clearly included romantic relationships.

The fact that Holmes holds no romantic interest does not mean that he is
asexual... I think asexual has alot to do with one's biology rather than
one's sexual inclination.

>I must say that Sherlock exibited a profound lack of respect for women.  That
>theme reoccured constantly, but I don't think that that is evidence of a
>secret sexual persuasion.

Yes ! This is perhaps my greatest regrets, but he did learn his lesson in 
"A Scandal in Bohemia" under the hands of "the woman" -- Irene Adler.  
However, may I defend Sherlock in
the sense that he hardly exibited any respect for man either !

Good Health.

Changhao.
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From: art@world.std.com (Al Thompson)
Subject: Re: homosexuality
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
	<1992Sep9.232004.20140@news2.cis.umn.edu>
	<1992Sep10.054008.28619@csi.uottawa.ca>
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 15:59:15 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.054008.28619@csi.uottawa.ca> misrael@csi.uottawa.ca (Mark Israel) writes:

   In article <1992Sep9.232004.20140@news2.cis.umn.edu>, kencham@ulysses.cs.umn.edu (Deepak R. Kenchammana-Hosekote) writes:

   > The issue of homosexuality, albeit not brought in the open, lurks in 
   > the background and the impression I got was that in the Victorian days
   > of SH there was nothing 'queer' about being a queer.

      Oscar Wilde was jailed for it (convicted under the same statute as
   Alan Turing).

Oscar Wilde was jailed for criminal libel.  He publicly exposed his
affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, son of the Marquis of Queensbury of
boxing rules fame.  Queensbury pressed charges against Wilde on the issue
and truth was no defense to libel.

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From: men@bjerknes.colorado.edu (Matthew Newman)
Subject: Re: A&E Sherlock Holmes Week
Organization: NOAA Climate Research Division
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 15:11:32 GMT

Although I too enjoy the Brett characterization of Holmes, and
although the shows are basically done well, I have one complaint that
I have not (yet) seen voiced on the net.  In an attempt to make Watson
look more intelligent, the writers seem to give him a number of lines
that *Holmes* actually says in the stories themselves (last night,
in 'Silver Blaze,' was a case in point:  it was *Watson* who began the
explanation of the mystery).  I understand that Watson has been
portrayed so negatively in the past that the producers wanted to
correct that, but I think they went overboard.  Also, both Watsons are
pretty bland; much better (I think) was James Mason's Watson, who was
a competent doctor, a vigorously patriotic Englishman, and in general
not a buffoon, but still clearly no intellectual match for Holmes.

Matt Newman
men@noaacrd.colorado.edu

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