The Lion's Mane: Fitzroy McPherson

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Lion's Mane
Author: scfrankles
Rating: PG




Fitzroy McPherson
Was a curious person.
Wet and in pain, he got back in his trousers.
Howzis?

Comments

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

A true gentleman to the last.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I applaud his sense of propriety - I just feel in the circumstances, he would have been forgiven for not trying to put them back on ^^"

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

It is a very strange thing indeed. So much so that it seems to have thrown the great Sherlock Holmes off his game as well!

Perhaps there is a small window after being stung, before the pain gets too excruciating, in which something like normal thought and action is possible. It could take less than a minute to jam oneself into trousers and shoes and throw on a coat, especially if one was motivated by fear and adrenaline.

Just how long it takes for the full effects to set in seems like the kind of thing Holmes might have wanted to test using an extract of the poison from the dead jellyfish, had this case taken place years earlier. Perhaps he could have even written a monograph on the subject! Alas, he is retired now.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

You know, when I saw your comment in my messages, I assumed you'd left it on the discussion post. I've never had such a thorough comment left on a clerihew before ^_^

That is an excellent point - McPherson would have been running on adrenaline. Though there is the matter of him being sopping wet. I mean, I think getting back into clothes in these circumstances would be a struggle - they would cling to the skin. And trousers are a bit of a palaver at the best of times.

I do like the idea of Holmes studying the jellyfish poison - I can absolutely see him doing that ^^ But I suppose you're right - he wouldn't want to be distracted from his bees ^^" (And it does beg the worrying question, who or what would he experiment on..? ^^")

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

Ah, sorry for any confusion! I was sitting there giggling at "Howzis" and trying to come up with something pithy and clever to say--and suddenly an explanation for that very vexing question that had been bugging me as well popped into my head and I was sharing it before I knew what happened. LOL.

Agreed, adrenaline might not be enough to explain the sudden ability to put on a trousers while soaking wet--but then again people have been known to lift cars off children and what have you in crisis, so perhaps it is possible if one is sufficiently motivated. (My tiny grandmother carried her new clothes dryer upstairs from the basement when there was a flood--and this was in the 50's when they were heavy beasts!) So one never knows for sure.

(I suspect Holmes would test the poison on himself... at least the smaller doses. Which makes me rather glad the bees won out!)

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Thank you for mentioning "howzis" - I was embarrassingly pleased with that ^_^

And, OK, I will allow your excellent argument - adrenaline might explain how McPherson managed to get his trousers back on, even while wet. (As I said to thesmallhobbit, I applaud his sense of propriety ^_^ And I love the image of your grandmother saving the clothes dryer - what a woman! ^^)

[winryweiss.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wonder ... let's incline to the adrenaline theory.
But still, there's something fishy about this whole case.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Definitely something jelly-fishy :P