The Red-Headed League: It Is A Strange World

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Strangeness of the World
Title: It Is A Strange World
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

It is with some incredulity that we have to report certain events from last week.  Supposedly an area off Fleet Street was filled with men having red hair, all apparently in pursuit of a position that specified someone of that appearance.  One must congratulate the fortunate successful applicant, but one wonders whether he will become engaged in some unpleasant experiment.

Comments

[debriswoman]

Sad to see your paper going for the sensational stories now:-p
What is the world coming to?
Signed
Man on Clapham omnibus

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear!

Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Sir,
We do not make the news, merely report it.
The Editor

[morelindo.livejournal.com]

Tee hee hee :)

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[vaysh]

One must indeed wonder. Or wonder why not one of the many applicants nor the successful one itself does indeed wonder. (I was watching the Sheldon adaptation of "The Red-headed League" and was hoping for a street full of red-heads - in black-and-white nonetheless - but no such luck. ;))

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

It is apparent those who recommend not looking a gift horse in the mouth often fail to consider the full cost of the keep of said horse.

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

Very believable. Thanks for sharing the idea.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

In some ways Jabez Wilson got off very lightly.

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

A strange story indeed. It must have been quite a sight - it's a wonder it wasn't more widely reported and talked about...

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

I believe many who were there preferred not to speak of it afterwards.

[tardisjournal.livejournal.com]

I believe this is, perhaps, the very first recorded account of a "flash mob"!

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Well observed.

[mundungus42.livejournal.com]

I feel like Lydia from Pride and Prejudice: *sighs* A whole street full of men with red hair!

I for one am glad at at least one local publication saw fit to cover this momentous Gathering of Gingers, this Association of the Auburn Haired, this Conflagration of Carrot Tops, when the rest of Fleet Street couldn't be bothered.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

We proudly boast 'all news covered'.

With vocabulary likes yours I feel we may be able to offer you a part-time position.