The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for January 08, 2023

It’s 7% cocaine.

Sounds like a shaggy dog story to me!

Shouldn’t this have taken place at his apartment above the barbershop, Shear Lock’s Home?

Superbowl scalpers.

I thought he was in a deli, and overheard someone offering to share lox.

Pastis drop by? " Shear Lock’s Combs", love it!

If he was a dog catcher, this would be the Pound of the Baskervilles.

The Inspiration: Instead of “the butler did it”, “the barber did it.”

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.

But Doyle wrote mysteries not hair-raising tales so why the Rogaine?

I like the signs on the windows. Shear Locks Combs’ and 221B Baker St.

Good one!

It was also the day that his barber, Murray Artie, gave him the worst haircut of his life.

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.

Shave and a haircut-Two bits‼️

Holmes’ idea for hair growth came right off the top of his head.

Considering the literary Holmes never uttered the phrase, “Elementary, my dear Watson.”…

But who shaves the barber?

Love the name and address of the barber shop!

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.”

The mystery of the bald blonde…

There was once a book about cocaine addiction in Victorian England using Holmes as a case study. “Subcutaneously My Dear Watson”

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!).

Ro-gaine is afoot, Watson.