Big Sherlock Holmes fan here. My job used to take me through London, where I would swap Nero Wolfe mysteries, that I picked up at garage sales for a quarter, returning home with their early edition Holmes mysteries.
I mentioned this before; the CBC had a podcast about the Rogaine history, to make a long podcast short – Poor Bruce Willis is the success marker for the product, if your hair loss is like Bruce’s hair loss in Die Hard 2, Rogaine will restore it to Die Hard 1, Die Hard 3 to Die Hard 2, and so on. It was an interesting article, maybe not for Mr. Willis.
Besides the conversation, the name of the shop, and the address, I note the green deerstalker cap on the hat tree. The literary Holmes never was mentioned as wearing a deerstalker, as far as I know. I believe that almost all of our impressions of what Sherlock Holmes looked like come from the movies with Basil Rathbone, who in turn was the prototype for subsequent Holmes depictions. By the way, I have a deerstalker from Christie’s in London, purchased 40+ years ago, but there’s nowhere I feel I can wear it (even here in the Pacific Northwest) where I wouldn’t feel like a dweeb (even if my wife would let me wear it!).
Ratkin Premium Member over 1 year ago
It’s 7% cocaine.
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
Sounds like a shaggy dog story to me!
Bilan over 1 year ago
Shouldn’t this have taken place at his apartment above the barbershop, Shear Lock’s Home?
Jayalexander over 1 year ago
Superbowl scalpers.
Kaputnik over 1 year ago
I thought he was in a deli, and overheard someone offering to share lox.
iggyman over 1 year ago
Pastis drop by? " Shear Lock’s Combs", love it!
backyardcowboy over 1 year ago
If he was a dog catcher, this would be the Pound of the Baskervilles.
Doug K over 1 year ago
The Inspiration: Instead of “the butler did it”, “the barber did it.”
Geophyzz over 1 year ago
Big Sherlock Holmes fan here. My job used to take me through London, where I would swap Nero Wolfe mysteries, that I picked up at garage sales for a quarter, returning home with their early edition Holmes mysteries.
osceola over 1 year ago
But Doyle wrote mysteries not hair-raising tales so why the Rogaine?
richecampbell over 1 year ago
I like the signs on the windows. Shear Locks Combs’ and 221B Baker St.
CrimsonOne18 over 1 year ago
Good one!
uniquename over 1 year ago
It was also the day that his barber, Murray Artie, gave him the worst haircut of his life.
joe piglet Premium Member over 1 year ago
I mentioned this before; the CBC had a podcast about the Rogaine history, to make a long podcast short – Poor Bruce Willis is the success marker for the product, if your hair loss is like Bruce’s hair loss in Die Hard 2, Rogaine will restore it to Die Hard 1, Die Hard 3 to Die Hard 2, and so on. It was an interesting article, maybe not for Mr. Willis.
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Shave and a haircut-Two bits‼️
Frank Burns Eats Worms over 1 year ago
Holmes’ idea for hair growth came right off the top of his head.
spaceagesoul over 1 year ago
Considering the literary Holmes never uttered the phrase, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”…
SavannahJim Premium Member over 1 year ago
But who shaves the barber?
Diamond Lil over 1 year ago
Love the name and address of the barber shop!
zeexenon over 1 year ago
We used to bring this back from Mexico for my Paralegal wife’s Lawyer boss. And for an AT&T retiree, of course it’s “Watson, come here I need you.”
T... over 1 year ago
The mystery of the bald blonde…
Lablubber over 1 year ago
There was once a book about cocaine addiction in Victorian England using Holmes as a case study. “Subcutaneously My Dear Watson”
WF11 over 1 year ago
Besides the conversation, the name of the shop, and the address, I note the green deerstalker cap on the hat tree. The literary Holmes never was mentioned as wearing a deerstalker, as far as I know. I believe that almost all of our impressions of what Sherlock Holmes looked like come from the movies with Basil Rathbone, who in turn was the prototype for subsequent Holmes depictions. By the way, I have a deerstalker from Christie’s in London, purchased 40+ years ago, but there’s nowhere I feel I can wear it (even here in the Pacific Northwest) where I wouldn’t feel like a dweeb (even if my wife would let me wear it!).
John Williams Premium Member over 1 year ago
Ro-gaine is afoot, Watson.