The Cardboard Box: Anatomy of a Joke

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Title: The Cardboard Box: Anatomy of a Joke
Author: gardnerhill               
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Judging by one of my former-nurse mother’s stories, medical students haven’t changed at all.
                                                                                       
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“I can understand Miss Cushing’s original belief that it was a disgusting prank, Holmes. Medical students do tend to become calloused about dealing with human body parts.”

Holmes looked at me and cocked one eyebrow.

I smiled, in an ungentlemanly manner. “Some night I may tell you about the mystery of the pensioner’s corpse, the Anatomy professor, and the absinthe.”

The Cardboard Box: Hans Sloane Could Lend Him a ... Hand.

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Cardboard Box
Rating: Teen for Creepy!Holmes
Summary: Two monographs is just the beginning.

“Holmes! Where are you?” I stopped. “Oh, are those—?”

“As I said, no part of the body varies so much. I endeavour, as always, to be thorough in my research.”

“Your collection is extensive,” I said.

“Thus, the use of the lumber room. Extensive, yes, exhaustive, lamentably, no,” he replied as he eyed my pinna with no little interest.

The Cardboard Box: Antimacassars

[grrlpup]

Canon Story: The Cardboard Box
Title: Antimacassars
Author: grrlpup
Rating: G

She'd meant to finish these new antimacassars long ago. Living alone with few visitors, however, she'd put it off. Well, now she was caught out. Detectives all over the house, curious neighbors dropping by, seeing the stains! It wasn't sisterly to blame, but she wished Sarah had never brought that... oily Mr. Fairbairn around. Her needle stabbed with more force.

Discussion Post: The Cardboard Box

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This week, the canon story we’re looking at is The Cardboard Box, and the chosen topic is Seaside Holidays.

( Discussion continues... )

Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Cardboard Box

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then go on to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.

And here, courtesy of my housemaid Rachel, is this week’s suggested poem to read—a suggestion inspired by the themes and subjects in this week's story. Hopefully you will enjoy the poem, and perhaps it may give you some ideas for a poem of your own or allow you to look at Dr. Watson's story in a new way.


A Divine Image

by William Blake


Note from Rachel: I think this poem fits the horror of the crime and also reflects Holmes’s existential questioning at the end of the story. Looking at the misery and evil in the world, what sort of divine image does that reflect? Blake’s poem envisages a bleak one.



And here is my suggested form to revisit this week: the diamante. (The link will take you back to a previous poetry page.)

Incidentally, to centre your diamante in the comments, you simply need to use the tags:

< center >your diamante here< /center >.
(With the spaces within the angle brackets removed.)



But you do not have to use that form. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, alexandrine, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, Fib, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Cardboard Box in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!



Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Cardboard Box: Daisy Roots and a Whistle and Flute

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Canon Story: The Cardboard Box
Title: Daisy Roots and a Whistle and Flute
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “Ring for our boots and tell them to order a cab.” As has been pointed out elsewhere, this is an amusingly ambiguous sentence… (And apologies to all Cockneys.)


“Cab!”

Right-Boot waved primly.

“Nah!” said Left-Boot. “Yer’ve gotta make a fuss to get a flounder!”

Right-Boot turned and stared. “A ‘flounder’?”

“Don’t worry, chaps! We’ll do it!”

A jacket, waistcoat and trousers appeared and started flapping at the traffic.

“See,” said Left-Boot. “Dey’ll bloody get the cab!”

Right-Boot frowned. “Why?”

Left-Boot grinned at him. “Well… Dat’s Mr. ‘Olmes’s ‘whistle’.”



A/N:
daisy roots = boots
flounder and dab = cab
whistle and flute = suit
knees and ankles = penitent Frankles

The Cardboard Box: Just Two Good Women

[sanguinity]

Canon Story: The Cardboard Box
Title: Just Two Good Women
Author: sanguinity
Rating: G
Author's notes: A very placid and respectable maiden lady of fifty, leading a most retired life, with so few acquaintances or correspondents that it is a rare event for her to receive anything through the post...

 

Susan was wearing mourning.

"Forgive my intrusion, Miss Cushing," I stammered, "but I saw in the papers--"

She blanched, and I took her elbow. Our skirts swirled together around our feet.

--and I couldn't be sure you'd send for me.

"Miss Collins," she said. She gave me her chilled hand, and I brought it to my cheek to warm it.

The Cardboard Box: A Personal Interest

[castiron.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Cardboard Box
Title: A Personal Interest
Author: Castiron
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Just how long ago was "some" years?

Those three rowdy medical students had proved steadier men than my story might suggest. Dr. Cruise practices in Belfast, Dr. Huncote studies tropical disease in the Caribbean, and....

Astute readers have certainly realized that I conceal details in the stories I tell of Holmes's cases.

War changed my appearance. I am still grateful that Miss Cushing did not recognize me.

The Cardboard Box: Second Impressions

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Canon Story: The Cardboard Box
Title: Second Impressions (the serialisation of the Private Journal of Dr Watson)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

Today has been extremely interesting.  A husband driven mad by love sent the severed ears of his wife and her lover to his sister-in-law.  And I have been reminded of the dangers inherent in not controlling ones emotions, for I cannot allow anyone to be aware I love both women and men equally.

And truly he is not really ferret-faced.