Hi Sumal, ... That sounds like a good solution. Speaking of majority, haven't seen Manraviel, Balaji etc for a while. Is there anybody out there? Relating to...
Hey smeagol, Nice to see you back! Hope you recover from that CTS soon. cheers r ... definitely need some sort of "scissoring." Then again, like Rishi says, we...
As members will probably know, Conan Doyle hankered after being a great novelist. He knew that detective novels were considered 'popular' rather than...
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Thanks Rishi. But, hey, I gotta confess that my CTS problems began once I got those new games installed in my system a few weeks back. Some of them, like the...
Dear Sherlockians, Firstly, my thanks to Tim for joining back . I suggest Rishi and Sridhar mail atleast one member so that they become active. I will be doing...
... Will do. But I'm busy with work over this weekend, so I can only start from Tuesday. Hope that isn't a problem. ... The Adventure of the Six Napoleons? I...
Dear Sherlockians I think I'm all right now and will be regularly contributing again. Sridhar PS: Rome, eh?! I'll try that out ASAP. Thanks again, Rishi. ... ...
Dear Sherlockiaans, It seems to be a toss up between empty house and the six napoleans. Well, Anand and Mark have deserted us , it appears .No sign of them for...
Empty House and the Hon. Ronald Adair is fine with me. Who sets the ball rolling? btw, a link you might be interested in: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: ...
Hello, Don't you think Hon Ronald Adair was rather naive in trying to expose , the second most dangerous man in England, Col Sebastain Moran for which he had...
Dear Sherlockiaans, Do you think the story of Sherlock Holmes,s escape from the Reinbach falls a little far fetched .It does stretch one's credibility a bit. ...
Naivity doesn't come into the picture. Adair couldn't have known what he was dealing with since he had only known the man as a cheater at cards. Re the Return...
Yes indeed, Holmes' miraculous escape from death at the Falls was arranged 'ex post facto' by Conan Doyle and has always made even aficionados of the Sherlock...
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Dec 12, 2004 9:55 am
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Dear Shelockians, I tried to chat with a few members but unfortunately it did not materialize.Ca anyone tell me how we get around to chatting on the groups...
SHERLOCK HOLMES FAN BASED OWN DEATH ON STORY FROM CANON The mysterious death of britians leading sherlock holmes expert sir Richard Lancelyn Green appears to...
He didn't know Moran to be the second most dangerous man in England. What interests me is Moran's membership of the Anglo-Indian Club. Perhaps he was an...
Dear Sherlockians, It might interest you to know that the expanding bullet invented by Van heden , the blind German mechanic has been banned in Combat under ...
That's really interesting. But, I've read that these bullets are used almost exclusively by assassins around the globe. Well, that's a completely different...
Dear Sir, Sorry for writing after such a long time. In fact I'm at a place whr no tel or internet facility is there..... n'ertheless, I'll try (or rather I...
Dums dums, as flat-nosed bullets are called are indeed against the Geneva conventions established after World War Two but this doesn't mean they are not used...
Tim Symonds
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Dec 21, 2004 12:06 am
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Dear Sherlockians, Dr Watson fainted when he saw Sherlock Holmes in front of him in the Empty House. Does any member has any personal experience of fainting ...
Not of joy or happiness, but I do remember fainting of hunger once when I was in the 4th std. My mom in those days was very impressed by anything that was...
Fainting in Victorian times was a common phenomenon among the more 'refined' women, rather than men, because they not only pretended they were far too ...
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Dear Tim, That was interesting. I think the wheel has come full circle. We find waif like models who achieve the same by starvingi.e Kate Moss is a prime...
I mentioned the habit of upper-class Victorian young women to pinch in their wastes with the use of corsets to give themselves hour-glass figures simply to...
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Dec 26, 2004 9:46 pm
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In my other response a minute ago, I forgot to mention that for most of history a slim figure was far from the aspiration of women, nor considered beautiful...