Mrs.Wenceslas wrote:

I would kill for that Belstaff coat!

It's such a dramatic coat! I love the colour and how it swirls around him like a cloak. I had to replace my own beloved coat after a significant weight loss and happened to stumble on a coat at a charity shop that has quite a few of my favourite characteristics of the Belstaff while looking nothing like it -- the colour, the A-line cut (but much shorter), the cuffed sleeves, and the belt at the back of the waist. My last coat was brown leather, so this is quite a change, but this one matches all my scarves, too. I was doing the dramatic coat and looped scarf thing weeeeeeeeell before Sherlock was even conceived by Moftiss and that's not going to change.

I had an 'obsessed with Sherlock' moment today, or, rather an 'obsessed with quoting Sherlock' moment. I have a bad leg that gives me a lot of trouble when it's damp out. We are presently in the middle of an interminable record breaking rainy stretch and I'm limping badly and in quite a bit of pain. I went to a neighbour's for coffee this afternoon and she promptly told me to sit down and that she'd get an ottoman to rest my leg on. Frustrated with the weather and the pain, I burst out with, "DAMN MY LEG!" It was one of those moments when I really wish I could get that friend to watch Sherlock because I think I rather alarmed her...

Mary

 

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:

Hope your leg feels better soon, Mary!

Thanks! It just gets worse over the years, hence why I moved to what is supposed to be a dry climate... *sighs*

You also know you're obsessed when you really should be sleeping but you're trying to find a long blue scarf online wondering if it's supposed to be that difficult

I have a ginormous scarf collection and am looking for dark purple, royal blue, and forest green.  My rule, because I have so many now, is that I can only get them used at charity shops or as gifts.

Mary

When you're inches away from writing a lenghty email to the Danish news to eductate them after claiing that Breaking Bad was the ultimate winner of the Emmy's... and even mentioned a list of other shows but didn't even mention Sherlock once... 

I mean; Come on!! A Danish actor had one of the main parts on the episode!! 

My fingers are itching to write it...

Congratulations, La Jolie! Plus - you give husband and children some space and time of their own.
Maybe they will even love it! 

And Phantom: Right you are! Did you? 

You comment on Facebook that you've got a wet job to do today, the responses are along the lines of 'scared of you!', and you only get what they mean because of what Magnussen says in HLV.

Bonus: the same three friends as always, John, Mycroft*, and Sarah, comment on your feed and you now find this funny.

Mary
*I mentioned my friend Mycroft in another thread. His folks were Conan Doyle fans and thought Sherlock would be too obvious!

Oh no, that sounds like a horribly sad dream La Jolie.. hopefully the mood didn´t last! 


You know you´re obsessed with Sherlock when your thoughts about your new haircut go something like this: "I want to look like someone from Sherlock! Okay, let´s do it! But who? Molly´s hair is too dark, and I don´t want plain long hair anymore. Irene? Same.. I need someone blonde.. John and Mary are blonde. But their hair is way too short.. what to do.. ha! There is Jamie Moriarty from Elementary! She´s the love interest of a Sherlock, and she looks like the best of Moriarty, Irene and John combined! So Jamie Moriarty it is.." ^^

When you see this Cyanide and Happiness comic and honestly think it's a fanart on your feed...

maryagrawatson wrote:

I mean, I only really picked up on the name when I became a fan of this show. Otherwise, he was just a dear friend with an old fashioned name.

But then it's less weird now than it was before the BBC version, isn't it? I mean, who would name their child after a grossly obese weirdo who hardly ever talks to anyone? It makes a lot more sense to name him after a clever, decent, upright civil servant in a smart three-piece suit, doesn't it?

That said, we actually named our son John. Long after we fell in love with the books and the BBC series.
 

maryagrawatson wrote:

All I can say is that my Mycroft's parents must have been HUGE fans because his older sister is Shirley. I am not kidding. 

Now that's dedication. Scary!

 

John's a very common name

Yes, that's why we thought we'd get away with it.

Seriously though, he wasn't named after Dr. Watson. He really wasn't. I wouldn't do that to a kid, not even with such an unspectacular, non-specific name. It's just a family in-joke that he got that name because Sherlock would have been too obvious. 


On a related note, my husband happens to be named Benedict. So much for confusion of real life and fandom in this household!

Why am I talking about my family? Maybe I'm missing them after all?

Last edited by La Jolie (August 28, 2014 9:49 pm)

La Jolie wrote:

Now that's dedication. Scary!

I don't think I've laughed as hard as when I got the email from him last week that said, "Offline for a week, going to visit Shirl!"

On a related note, my husband happens to be named Benedict. So much for confusion of real life and fandom in this household!

I have a cousin named Benedict last initial C. The name's not as uncommon as our Cumberbunny likes to make it out to be.

Mary