BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 » You know you're obsessed with Sherlock when...

sherlockskitty · May 28, 2012 7:25 am

smoggy london air---VERY good usage of those words in your sentences. I would give yu 100%

OK

You know you're obsessed with Sherlock when...

When I see an umbrella just like Mycrofts, I take it out and stand with it just like he did.
Today at the fair, I searched for that luminous rabbit.
Today at the fair's Art building, I tried looking for Ben and Martin's faces. (didn't find them tho!!)

Wholocked · May 28, 2012 11:37 am

On the radio this morning there was an add for a carpet cleaning company; they were offering 20% discount for an empty house. Betcha can guess what I was thinking about!

Smoggy_London_Air · May 28, 2012 4:25 pm

Molly Hooper wrote:
I bet you got full marks!!!

I wish I knew. They haven't posted our exam grades yet! My teacher loves 19th century literature, though, so I think it's a safe bet!

Sherli Bakerst · June 2, 2012 3:38 pm

You know you're obsessed when...

...you suddenly remember that when you were a kid, your mother possessed a real human skull which you thought was so cool but it got lost when you moved to a new house, and you are even more angry/upset about its loss now, forty years later!

(True story--she'd been a nursing student and somehow acquired the skull, which we kept in the basement with all the other esoteric stuff. But if I had it now, it would have pride of place in my home!)

Britigander · June 2, 2012 5:08 pm

You've just finished reading 'The Sign of Four', and, whilst you're working to walk, a fire engine comes haring along to the junction you're approaching, halts abruptly at the otherwise completely empty junction, at a green light, and the occupants appear uncertain as to which way they should go, and you think "Oh no! They've lost the scent! Don't go to the left, that's toward the timber yard!"

Davina · June 2, 2012 8:06 pm

You know you're obsessed when clicking through the tv channels on Discovery Shed ( yes, there really IS such a channel) you see Holmes Inspection and immediately think of Sherlock.

Sentimental Pulse · June 4, 2012 2:02 pm

When you decide to finally cleanout the refrigerator because you fear the thumbs have gone bad

When you start rummaging through old clothes from the '80s looking for that fuchsia outfit

When you appreciate Golem as a throw back homage to Rondo Hatton's Creeper

When your boyfriend receives your orgasmic text during a business video conference call

When you see ?????? around your partner's head as he or she emerges from the shower

When you look up everytime you walk past a hospital

When you surf home shopping channels hoping for a Moriarty cut in broadcast

When you start referring to every dog you encounter as a great hound

SusiGo · June 5, 2012 12:21 pm

When you post photos of yourself in a Sherlock T-Shirt on your Facebook page.

When you change your ringtone to the title melody.

When you put Sherlock wallpapers on both your laptop and iMac.

Sherli Bakerst · June 5, 2012 10:19 pm

I just heard on TV the music that Jim Moriarty was listening to when he broke into the Tower for the Crown Jewels, and when I looked up from my computer screen to see the TV screen, I expected to see a commercial for the show rather than a commercial for JetBlue, which is what was really on. And then I felt kind of bummed, too.

Sherli Bakerst · June 6, 2012 3:03 am

And also when I see a headline on the BBC News homepage:

Boring votes to pair with Dull

and the first thing I think is that it'll be about Sherlock. Alas, no; it's about two towns--the first is in the US and the second in the UK--with those names who are forming a relationship. Of course, maybe Sherlock inspired them to pair up!

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Sentimental Pulse · June 6, 2012 10:55 am

OMG Sherli. I saw same Boring/Dull Story and thought exactly the same thing!

Sherli Bakerst · June 6, 2012 11:14 pm

That's hysterical, Sentimental Pulse! Or perhaps I should say: GMTA!

Sentimental Pulse · June 7, 2012 10:42 am

Great minds indeed, Sherli We're not ordinary, Jim Moriarty!

Davina · June 7, 2012 11:33 am

You know you're obsessed when you find yourself going to the supermarket at 10pm for no other reason than to buy a copy of the Radio Times because it has an interview with Andrew Scott in it. Oh...and to post said interview on this forum, of course!

Molly Hooper · June 7, 2012 11:34 am

Yay! How lovely of you!

Sherlock Holmes · June 7, 2012 3:41 pm

When you get your hair cut and ask the hairdresser to do it like Sherlock.

(Yes I did this yesterday! I'm so happy with it! )

Molly Hooper · June 7, 2012 3:50 pm

Did the hairdresser know what you meant?!

tobeornot221b · June 7, 2012 4:00 pm

Oh - hairdressers! That reminds me of my last visit to my lovely Chinese hairdresser. She wanted to try "something different" on me. I said ok, go for it. And I ended up looking like Benedict in TTSS...

Molly Hooper · June 7, 2012 4:02 pm

Does that work on a women?!

tobeornot221b · June 7, 2012 4:05 pm

It wasn't too bad, I presume. Meanwhile I'm looking more myself again...