Comments on: Sherlock Holmes goes camping: A story about perception

By: Tammy Lenski

Tammy Lenski — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:53:39 +0000

Lori, your comment transported me back to my teen years when I, too, read a lot of Sherlock Holmes stuff, and all of Agatha Christie. Great memories — thanks for that!

By: SpaceAgeSage

SpaceAgeSage — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:33:27 +0000

Crystal — “Sherlockians”??? A new one for me.

I read all of the Sherlock Holmes stories as a teen, so I enjoyed the joke.
I have always been amazed at how humans find and entrench themselves in certain perspectives, especially culturally different ones.

By: Tammy Lenski

Tammy Lenski — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:36:37 +0000

Hi, Mike – You’re right, it has some interesting fodder for thinking about perspectives, too. It’s a sign of a great story when it offers many angles from which to understand it. Feel free to share on your blog as you will, since I’m not the original source of it — and I’d appreciate the link.

By: Mike Kirkeberg

Mike Kirkeberg — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:01:40 +0000

By the way, can I borrow it for my blog at some point?

By: Mike Kirkeberg

Mike Kirkeberg — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:00:11 +0000

I saw Sherlock Holmes and couldn’t resist checking it out. This is a great story . It fits perceptions and it may be a subtle difference, but Watson shows it is also about perspectives.
Love it.

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By: Crystal

Crystal — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:37:46 +0000

That joke is commonly called “The Tent Joke” among Sherlockians. It’s gained a rather infamous standing, as it’s been told several times too often. I really like how you thought of a different way to look at it.

As for the origin, according to http://www.sherlockian.net/about/faq.html Direct Quote: “The earliest known version of the tent joke for some reason refers to “Matthew Watson” — an unknown twin of John H., perhaps? That version was posted to the Hounds of the Internet July 2, 1998.”