| Black Cat Bases | 12 Oct 2007 5:05 a.m. PST |
Does anyone know where this first came from ? i have just heard it again in robocop 3 yes i know its just on as mind music while i package. |
| MonkeyborgRedux | 12 Oct 2007 5:29 a.m. PST |
Dr Watson having an off day? |
| nazrat | 12 Oct 2007 5:51 a.m. PST |
I'm not sure, but this figure is kind of funny! link |
| nazrat | 12 Oct 2007 5:52 a.m. PST |
Oops, it bleeped part of the address! Change that bleep to the forbidden word and you'll see it. |
 John the OFM  | 12 Oct 2007 6:10 a.m. PST |
My gf used to say it in the 70s, and even then, I thought it had heard it before. |
| Black Cat Bases | 12 Oct 2007 6:22 a.m. PST |
I can find film references of it to the early eighties, but can't find where its from. Maybe MonkeyborgRedux is right and i just haven't read that Conan doyle story "i solve all the cases really and i am a lot smarter than that dope fiend" by Watson :) |
| astronomican | 12 Oct 2007 6:36 a.m. PST |
My father has been saying that phrase since I was a wee lad back in the 60's. |
| John the OFM | 12 Oct 2007 6:57 a.m. PST |
I think Dr. Johnson said it to Boswell, and that was one of Conan Doyle's influences on the Holmes stories. It may also be found in Marlowe's "Tamburlaine".
Prospero asks "Is it not passing brave to be a King, and to ride in triumoph through Persepolis?"
Ancient Harquebusse answers, "No  , Sherlock." |
| UltraOrk | 12 Oct 2007 7:08 a.m. PST |
Holmes: Watch your step Dr. Watson. I just traversed a bit of mud.
Dr. Watson: No, , Sherlock. |
| lugal hdan | 12 Oct 2007 7:47 a.m. PST |
I'm pretty sure it was from Beowulf. |
| John the Confused | 12 Oct 2007 8:55 a.m. PST |
I thought it was in Shakepeare's first draught of the Merchant of Venice. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 27 Oct 2007 11:14 a.m. PST |
! Beat me to it….. |
| JackWhite | 06 Jan 2008 2:25 p.m. PST |
I like to think I coined the phrase "No kidding, Columbo," just as a way of watching my languange around certain impressionable youth. We used to say "No , Sherlock" at least in the seventies, but who I picked it up from, I don't remember.
JW
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| JackWhite | 06 Jan 2008 2:30 p.m. PST |
Maybe a Playboy joke. At least there was the Sherlock Holmes' joke in which Watson comes into their rooms in Baker Street and Holmes has a young girl in a school uniform on his lap and says, "Good heavens, Holmes. What manner of schoolgirl is this?' Holmes replies, "Elementary, my dear Watson." JW |
