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1 - JaneCo
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Best Inanimate Object
In honour of my favourite category in the Tubey awards (please see awards thread if you have missed these 
) I wondered if you would like to suggest your favourite inanimate objects in either series of Sherlock. The Tubey categories include Sherlock's purple shirt, his coat and Irene Adler's phone. Suggestions welcome with a possible poll to follow. 
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I suggest the dressing gown. And the pillow with the Union Jack so that it's not just Sherlock's clothes 
. And the violin, I mean, he's holding it in these hands *clear throat* (somehow I always get back to Sherlock).
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- Smoggy_London_Air
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The violin.
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- sherlove
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Mycrofts Umbrella! :D
- veecee
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If purple shirt is already taken, then coat or skull.
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Mrs. Hudson's bins.
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For God's sake, guys... the skull! 
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Well, I'd say that those couple of bags of Quavers have attracted quite a lot of attention!!
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Excellent Molly! I like it...and Quavers!
Just as well it's nearly the end of term!
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Just three more weeks to go! (not that I'm counting or anything!!)
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Well, we all love the skull - but I think I'll vote for the scarf and the framed periodic table on the wall of Sherlock's bedroom.
Speaking of that, I'd like to get a glimpse of John's bedroom some time. I wonder what he keeps in there. Compared to the sitting room and the kitchen, Sherlock's bedroom seemed immaculate. I wonder if John is as neat. Maybe he is, coming from the military. Probably he bounces a coin off the bedspread each morning to make sure he made it up nice and tight
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Sherlock's magnifier
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Lots of what I would have suggested have already been mentioned but here's one more:
A microscope. Can't say The because Sherlock uses more than one: in St. Bart's, at his apartment, at Baskerville. But ya know what? They all look to be the same model! So, I submit a microscope as best inanimate object since it's so integral to Sherlock's work.
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The Diogenes Clubs' silence - if this is inanimate enough .
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KeepersPrice wrote:
Well, we all love the skull - but I think I'll vote for the scarf and the framed periodic table on the wall of Sherlock's bedroom.
Speaking of that, I'd like to get a glimpse of John's bedroom some time. I wonder what he keeps in there. Compared to the sitting room and the kitchen, Sherlock's bedroom seemed immaculate. I wonder if John is as neat. Maybe he is, coming from the military. Probably he bounces a coin off the bedspread each morning to make sure he made it up nice and tight
Can he be neater than Sherlock? I mean, Sherlock has a sock index!
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Re: Best Inanimate Object
Well, we all love the skull - but I think I'll vote for the scarf and the framed periodic table on the wall of Sherlock's bedroom.
Speaking of that, I'd like to get a glimpse of John's bedroom some time. I wonder what he keeps in there. Compared to the sitting room and the kitchen, Sherlock's bedroom seemed immaculate. I wonder if John is as neat. Maybe he is, coming from the military. Probably he bounces a coin off the bedspread each morning to make sure he made it up nice and tightCan he be neater than Sherlock? I mean, Sherlock has a sock index!
Yeah, it's weird that he has a sock index yet the living room and kitchen are always a complete mess. Obviously tidy in some aspects but not in others.
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The sheet with Mycroft's foot print or the ash tray from Buckingham Palace
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Can I vote for myself? If not, then I'll have to vote for either Sherlock's racquetball or the pills from Pink.
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Er...what actually is a sock index? I've never heard that phrase before. I'm assuming it's some sort of list/organizer for socks--yes, no???
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Er...what actually is a sock index? I've never heard that phrase before. I'm assuming it's some sort of list/organizer for socks--yes, no???
Do you mean you don't remember it from the show or that you heard it, but didn't know what it meant?
If the former, I think this is how it showed up: While Sherlock is off identifying Irene's (supposed) body, Mrs.Hudson and John search the flat for what I suppose is some substance that Sherlock might abuse in his emotional/mental state. Sherlock realizes it as soon as he walks in the door and says, "I hope you didn't mess up my sock index this time," or something like that.
If the latter, I believe it is Sherlock's own system for organizing his socks. I imagine he has a purple shirt index, too.
