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Volume
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February 2008
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Number 2
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Please visit our web sites at <http://www.sherlock-holmes.com>,
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Dear friends of Sherlock
Holmes:
You are receiving this communication because you have either purchased something from us, requested a catalog, or otherwise have done business with us in the recent past. The Sherlockian E-Times will contain Sherlockian news, announcements, features and will also call attention to a subset of new Sherlockian products which we feel might be of interest to you.. We would very much appreciate hearing from you concerning your reaction to this method of communication. Just click here to access our pre-addressed e-mail form. BTW, if you find something you'd like to purchase, but don't want to buy on line, the toll free telephone number is 877-233-3823. Or, you can always write to us at Classic Specialties; PO Box 19058; Cincinnati, OH 45219. Of course, you always have the choice to "opt out" - should you wish no longer to receive our E-Times (we hope this never happens!) - just click here to conjure up our pre-addressed e-mail form, just put "unsubscribe" on the subject line, and click on "send.". BTW: For folks who have not subscribed to the E-Times, a copy of this issue can be seen at http://www.sherlock-holmes.com/e_times08-2.htm. Tell your non-subscribing friends! | ||
COGITAVIT, ERGO SUM !
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Please Click Here for something we believe to be, not only unique, but pretty neat, too! |
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In our 20, or so, years of our active involvement in The Sherlockian
Community, we have noticed that Sherlockians are usually quite multi-dimensional
people. That is, Sherlockians tend to have many diverse interests
as certainly, we do. In that light, we'd like to call your attention
to a new venture which we are setting forth - one dedicated to the
beauty of frivolity (e.g., look to your right)! The graphics shown
on the "Lift Your Spirits" page were created by Professor
Gerald A. (Jerry) Stratton; the same artist who gave you the 2008
Sherlockian Calendar |
 Our artist's version of "Pie in the sky" (get it?) |
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Important Notice - we are still
on hiatus!
Friends of Sherlock Holmes: As many of you know, since the end of the "official" 2007 Holiday Season, we have been taking the liberty of going on a bit of a hiatus. As it turned out, this was a great year to do this considering the rotten weather back "up North!"During our absence from our home office, we will be unable to ship any merchandise to you from that facility. So far, we have made a couple of arrangements for you so that you won't have your supply of our Sherlockian items completely cut off. First, you can order anything you like from our shop at CafePress - these good folks always ship directly to you under ordinary circumstances. Just Click Here to go to our shop on that site. We do have a lot of interesting things in our CafePress shop - in fact, more that we could ever have produced working by ourselves. Then some of our suppliers have agreed to ship their books directly to you. We have set up a special page from which you can take advantage of our suppliers' kind cooperation and you can reach this page by Clicking Here. Now, in time for our February issue, we have also asked our supplier of those fabulous custom-made passports and Casablanca movie props to ship to you directly from his studio (which is literally half-way around the world from our home facility) - just Click Here to visit our page devoted to those collectibles. Direct delivery means that our suppliers' prices will include shipping charges and no additional shipping costs will be added. During the next few weeks, we will try to negotiate with other suppliers so that you will be able to receive their items via direct delivery from them, too. |
Photo clues lead to camera's owner
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Please check out this news report
and see a neat bit of "Sherlocking" by some clever New Yorkers
who traced a lost camera to its owner in Sidney Australia using only
information "deduced" from the photos in the camera! <http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=108&sid=1333181>
interesting reading |
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February is not
too late to get your
Classic Specialties' Sherlock Holmes Calendar for 2008 Please Click Here (If you didn't get your birth date to us in time for the 2008 calendar, please consider our adding it to the collection of your esteemed fellow Sherlockians for the 2009 calendar. E-Mail us and let us know your name and birth date. BTW, the theme for the 2009 calendar has been chosen to be "Sherlock Holmes in the Movies.") |
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Our Sherlock Holmes
2008 Calendar will be shipped directly from CafePress.
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There
exists an e-mail correspondence group, called "ShamlockHolmes"
whose members call themselves "Shamlockians." The origin of
the group, and of its name, is complex and cloudy, but suffice it to
say that "Shamlockians" tend to focus their attention to the
lighter side of the Sherlockian hobby. Recently members have been contributing
"quotations you won't see in the Canon." These are comments
which canonical characters might have made (but didn't) in the context
of their roles in their respective cases. We think that some of them
are pretty funny. Here are a few lifted from recent "Shamlockian"
e-correspondence. What do you think?
VIOLET SMITH TO HERSELF: "To heck with this Schwinn, I'm gettin'
me a Harley!" |
A couple of news items |
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We have been informed by reliable sources, that the following Sherlockians were honored by induction into the Baker Street Irregulars at that organization's January 2008 meeting: Betsy Rosenblatt invested as Lucy Ferrier
if any of these announcements are in error, we trust that BSI members will provide corrections. |
We are further informed that Dr. Tracy J. Revels,
associate professor of history at Wofford College, has been named to
the Chair of the Department of History at Wofford. She received her
bachelor of arts degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. from Florida State
University. Dr. Revels is an active member of "The Survivors of the
Gloria Scott;" Greenville, South Carolina's Sherlock Holmes society,
and she has been a regular contributor to that scion's newsletter, the
Gaslight Gazette (David Milner editor), via her humorous, and
often poignant, short Sherlockian pastiches and parodies. Dr. Revels
has recently agreed to allow the publication of a collection of her
Sherlockian works (one of her works we have previously published via
this web site - you are invited to see <http://www.sherlock-holmes.com/featur9.html>).
Please watch future editions of The Sherlockian E-Times for announcement
of the publication date of Dr. Revels' book.
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We have been contacted by Ms Kristan Sagliocco,
daughter of a fellow Sherlockian, Frank Vacante, founder of MCGinty's
Bird Watchers scion in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Ms Sagliocco has opened
a B&B (The King's Inn) in Summerville, SC. She has indicated
that she intend to host (hostess?) Murder Mystery Dinners at her
B&B and further asked us if we would mention her hostelry and
her proposed programs to our Sherlockian clientele. She told us
that she is planning her first Murder Mystery dinner for March 29th.
Weather permitting, the dinner will be held outside in her garden.
Photos courtesy of Ms. Sagliocco
E-Mail The King's Inn by Clicking Here. |
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Sherlockian Publications
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Mr. Peter Blau's singular Newsletter
Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press
Click Here to e-mail and ask Mr. Blau about subscribing. |
The
Illustrious Clients' News. You might send an e-message over
to Steve
Doyle.
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The
District Messenger is the official newsletter of The Sherlock Holmes
Society of London.Roger Johnson at <rojerjohnson@yahoo.co.uk>
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The
Baker Street Dispatch. Click Here
to ask our good friends and fellow Ohians, Tom and Janet, about subscribing.
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The
Gaslight Gazette is the official publication of Greenville, SC's scion,
Survivors of the Gloria Scott. Please e-mail our good buddy David Milner for further information. |
An
interesting and colorful newsletter from Columbia, SC's Hansom Wheels
is The Pink 'Un.
Email Bob Robinson at rer@lindau.net |
Click
Here to contact The Blue Whale, Michael Bragg, about subscribing
to The Whaling News,
the newsletter of Harpooners
of the Sea Unicorn
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Chicago's
Scotland Yarders produce a newsletter entitled The Police Gazette.
Please Click Here to
contact the Gazette's subscription manager.
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The
official web site of The Baker Street Journal
The Baker Street Irregular's Premier Publication of Sherlockian Scholarship |
"Ineffable
Twaddle" is a monthly publication of The Sound of the Baskervilles
Serving the Greater Puget Sound Region of Western Washington.
For information please email our friend Terri
Haugen.
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The
Petrel Flyer , the newsletter of the Stormy Petrels of British
Columbia. The Flyer is published six times per year and is
in its 19th year of publication. Contact Mr. Haffenden
<len_haffenden@ shaw.ca>. |
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Here is another newsworthy item
from our friend Dr. Bob Robinson of Columbia, SC..
If the lady to your right looks like Sherlock Holmes, she comes by it honestly. She is Heloise Rathbone, Basil Rathbone's granddaughter. Dr. Bob told us that he took this photo during the most recent January BSI gathering in NYC. Thanks, again, Dr. Bob |
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Some Hyperlinks
Occasionally, we receive communications from fellow Sherlockians, and other mystery lovers, asking us to mention their web sites or edresses hereupon. We like to do this as a courtesy extended to our fellow Sherlockians. If you have any hyperlinks you'd like to see included, please let us know. |
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The Harpooners of the Sea Unicorn at
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Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
http://www.siracd.com/ |
Balaji Narasimhan, our friend from India,
http://www.balaji.ind.in/ http://www.geocities.com/sherlockbalaji/ |
The Hansom Wheels
http://www.capnbilly.com/hansomwheels.htm |
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The Sherlock Holmes Society of London.
Bob Ellis for membership information.
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Judi
Ellis for information re: The Sherlock Holmes Journal
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Do you
have a hyperlink you'd like to see in one of these spaces?
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Peoria, January 2008.
(Photo Courtesy of Bob Burr) |
We, January 2008
(In Florida. ) |
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Well, we admit that the snow is pretty, but . . .? (besides,
we have been told that Cincinnati has been encrusted in ice!)
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