This is my ice bucket fic -- challenge courtesy of capt_facepalm at great_tales

This Week, Reykjavik!
DOUGLAS: I would, of course, be happy to be stuck in a hotel room with you, if only this water could be made a few degrees cooler.

ARTHUR: I wish that were my superpower!

DOUGLAS: Ah, but it is.

ARTHUR: What?

DOUGLAS: Of the Iron Man variety. Your superpower is ( Read more... )

But wouldn't you love to have seen this?

"We'll jut try it," said Guillam, and while Smiley went upstairs to check the tape deck, Guillam sang "Old Man River" in a low Paul Robeson growl.

"Thank you," said Smiley with a shudder, coming down again. "That's more than enough."(They replaced this with Guillam reciting "The boy stood on the burning ( Read more... )

I tried to give myself a concussion.  And Arthur tried to follow my example it seems ( Read more... )

I have been analyzing John Finnemore's writing in Cabin Pressure to DEATH in my head.

Essay-ish rambling is sure to be inflicted on you all soon.

So there's this boy ( Read more... )

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PART ONE

INTERCOM VOICE:  Attention, Ladies and Gentlemen, Fort Walla Walla has now closed.  Please make your way to the nearest exit,

[door being locked, followed by a toilet flush]

SHERLOCK AS MARTIN [on the phone]:   Come in, M.  This is double oh-seven.  The-

DOUGLAS [on the phone]:  Yes, Martin.  You just managed to elude capture by a ( Read more... )

[door opens]

JOHN: Sherlock, the next time you make a shopping list this long I'm making you…Who the…

SHERLOCK: Ah-John, put one of the packs of lightbulbs in the freezer.

JOHN: Yes, yes in a minute…Sherlock, who is that?

SHERLOCK: This is Martin Crieff-an airline pilot, judging by his left thumb.  First offi-

MARTIN: Captain-Don't you see the stripes?

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...my students are really really really brilliant?

Well, one of my ex-students said yesterday,

"Oh!  Miss V.  I saw this picture online of Sherlock and he's saying "Hot Cup of Coffee" "Cup" and making a face at it was hilarious, so I downloaded it onto my iPod to show you!"

And he showed me:


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http://johnfinnemore.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/cabin-pressure-faq.htmlFor those of us who go "PLEASE DON'T WRITE DOUGLAS/MARTIN OR CAROLYN/MARTIN OR ARTHUR/ANYONEELSEONTHATAEROPLANE BECAUSE JUST... EUGH!" I point to this beautiful sentence ( Read more... )