Friday, Jun 13, 2014

Who'da thought?  --  Arthur Conan Doyle's original name for the world's most famous detective was -- would you believe? -- Sherringford Hope.  Who knows where Sherringford comes from, but Hope was the name of a whaling ship that the author loved.  In any case, Doyle's wife Louisa thought her husband's name choices were awful and she urged him to come up with something else.  So after much thought he used Sherlock (after famed violinist Alfred Sherlock) and Holmes (after Oliver Wendell Holmes).   Good thing, otherwise we might all be going around saying, "No Sh*t, Sherringford."