Re: What do you do with your old computers?

Not so.  Watson was ****trayed as a dolt in many of the movies & TV series -
especially in the atrocious Basil Rathbone movies.  But he was a normally
intelligent man who simply wasn't told what Holmes was finding - or else
Doyle found it necessary to withhold the details so as to make a better
story.  IMHO, the only story in which Watson really missed the boat was
the
"Six Napoleaons".  It was obvious from the get-go that there was something
in one of them although of course Watson & the reader had no idea what it
might be.

So - if you don't speak German - what would you think "Rache" meant?

PL

Bill Gunshannon <billg999@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <EZXzj.16834$097.3151@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "tlmfru" <lacey@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> > Sherlock Holmes also said - in "The Adventure of the Lion's  Mane",
one
of
> > the last stories - that you can never tell what's going to be useful
so
read
> > everything!  Although he made it explicit there, it's obvious as you
read
> > the "canon" that he knew of all sorts of things that the average
person
> > didn't.  F'r instance, he knew what KKK means although Dr. Watson was
> > flummoxed by the abbreviation.
> >
>
> Actually, Dr. Watson was "flummoxed" by lots of things like assuming
that
> "RACHE" scrawled on a wall in blood meant there was a woman named
"Rachel"
> involved in the crime.  A mistaken notion that Holmes, in his usual
fa****on
> did not correct.  I think he only brought Watson along for comedy relief
> and his service revolver.  :-)
>
> bill
>
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