Unintentional Hilarity, Victorian Style

[qthewetsprocket]

It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my bed. [...]

"Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she retorted upon me, and I on you."

- "The Speckled Band", The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Comments

[travels_in_time]

Sex pollen and MPREG. I love this canon, I really do.

[qthewetsprocket]

I just wanna see how Mrs. Hudson impregnated Sherlock. "I'm your landlady, dear, not your sperm donor."

[travels_in_time]

I'll bet there was a turkey baster involved somewhere. Or a giant...what are those water dropper things, that Sherlock has when John first meets him?

[qthewetsprocket]

Maybe the superduper extra-special Sex Pollen makes them grow a temporary ovipositor?

"Mrs. Hudson! Where on earth have you been hiding that??"
"You don't want to know, dear."

[crossbow1]

Haha! I wonder if he might have done that on purpose. Not sure how old "knocked up" as a euphemism has been around.

[chamekke]

Sadly, in those innocent days "knocked up" meant something entirely different i.e. to beat mercilessly with a cricket stump.

[qthewetsprocket]

It's certainly tempting to think so, especially with the amount of time Holmes and Watson spend ejaculating at each other in the books.