• Fat Tony@lemm.ee
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    So, the joke is just paedophilia?

    Edit: Okay so according to the comment below “Elementary, my dear Watson” is his catch phrase. hence, the joke. Thanks for clearing that up Famko.

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      It’s a pretty lame comic trying to ride on having a controversial “punchline.”

      If it was posted on a larger site like reddit it would probably be on front-page just because of the drama and controversy people would extract from it.

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      This is an unusual comment I’m gonna make, unusual for me b/c I get phased by violent content and not dark humor

      Comic made me a little uncomfortable maybe because it’s actually showing implied child abuse. If it’s just alluded to then it’s just your imagination and you don’t imagine it well enough way it’s painful, but they show it & it’s like “bro that guy’s a child rapist holy shit wtf”

      Plus the lowest possible defense, 4chan-esque “akshually ephebophilia” “but in Japan…”, don’t even fly for Sherlock

      Edit: also there’s no greater point as you’ve mentioned, like if he wore a Jared Subway mask… potential big change in vibe

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        Sherlock Holmes’ “catchphrase”, for lack of a better term, is “Elementary, my dear Watson”, which is parodied in this comic.

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          Fun fact though, Sherlock never actually says these phrases together. He does say “Elementary” and “… my dear Watson” but not together.

          But really this is just an “akchtually” comment

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            To akchtually your akchtually… He doesn’t say it in the original books, but he has been saying in secondary sources for over a 100 years. So I don’t think people are wrong in saying that it’s his catch phrase.

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              I’d like to think of an akchtually to your akchtually but I actually can’t think of anything to rebut with.

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                Akchually you don’t need anything. Here’s your permission slip:

                +-------------------------+
                | Permission to akchually |
                |   without a rubuttal    |
                |  is hereby granted to   |
                |  @Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world  |
                +-------------------------+
                

                Hope you appreciate your new found powers :)

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            He never actually says that exact phrase in the books. It’s a cultural misquote, like “beam me up, Scotty,” that somehow caught on in popular culture but wasn’t in the original source.

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              I think it caught on because few people have read the books. Once they used it in media and continued to that is what folks know of sherlock holmes.

              • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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                It also caught on because, while he never said it in the original books and short stories, it’s something he absolutely could have said. He described things as “elementary” and used the phrase “my dear Watson” more than once, just never in quite that order.

                For instance, here’s a bit from The Crooked Man:

                “I have the advantage of knowing your habits, my dear Watson,” said he. “When your round is a short one you walk, and when it is a long one you use a hansom. As I perceive that your boots, although used, are by no means dirty, I cannot doubt that you are at present busy enough to justify the hansom.”

                “Excellent!” I cried.

                “Elementary,” said he.

                It’s just a coincidence that he never used the two phrases in one sentence.