Anonymous asked: Did you have a favorite story as a kid?

The Ugly Duckling.
Alternatively, The Bible.
-SH

Anonymous asked: If you can tell a good Chinese restaurant by the bottom part of the door handle, is there a good way to tell a good Italian restaurant?

The owner’s moustache.

-SH

Anonymous asked: What do you think of poetry? Do you have a favorite poem?

Poetry is interesting, although it depends on the post that pens or. Often its deliberateness becomes mundane. I like Sylvia Plath and Percy Bysshe Shelley, and some of Wordsworth’s earlier works.

Anonymous asked: Have you ever been asked to babysit? Are you any good at it?

Nobody in their right minds would ask me to babysit their devil children.

-SH

Anonymous asked: How did you celebrate Valentine's Day?

I’ve been busy with cases, sorry. John went out with his latest conquest. I stayed home and played with hearts.
Pig hearts, I mean.
-SH

Anonymous asked: Do you like the snow?

I find it both fascinating and irritating.
-SH

Anonymous asked: Some would say that always stating the truth makes a person rude and ornery. Do you believe this, Mr. Holmes?

I don’t see people who are truthful as being irritable at all, although I do think they’re a bit silly.

-SH

Anonymous asked: In the last question someone asked you (even thought it was more of a statement), in the last two sentences, there needed to be a comma after the word Sherlock. Why did you not correct this?

Occasionally I come across moods that allow me to ignore my problems.

-SH

Anonymous asked: Sherlock, I am watching you. Sherlock I am coming. Sherlock I have found you.

Are you the one that’s installed the camera in the flat across the street?

-SH

sshdonttellshirley asked: What did you do with the wax bust? Do you still have it in case of emergencies?

Yes, John has it encased in his shrine of me in his bedroom closet.
-SH

I have done nothing of the sort.
-JW

Doesn’t explain why you insisted on keeping it there.
-SH

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-JW