When Flying Saucers Attack!

[plang]

Mayerling, a subsription to Met Art Magazine would be welcomed!!!

[Mike Covell]

I actually made contact with the guys at TAPS last year, it appears they had a TAPS International database of groups but did not include the UK!
I contacted them and asked why, and they said they were working on it!

We re hoping to do Marston Moor in the Summer, its a large open expanse of Moorland were a large battle claimed a large loss of life.

Phantom armies, battles and running hooves have been heard on the moor.
The idea we have is to get as many Hull/Yorkshire Based paranormal groups together and have one big investigation.

We have also been invited to a Castle in Scotland!!

[Celesta]

Those Philestine sites actually had more interesting statuary than the Judean and Israelite and Samarian sites. After all, the Jews (like extreme Mohammedans today) disliked idols. They destroyed them wherever they found them.

Best wishes,

Jeff

The Philistines were a more sophisticated culture in almost all regards. There is some basis for suspecting they are descendants of Cretan Myceneans, who had become hardly distinguishable from the Minoans in some ways. The Israelite PR is that idols must be destroyed but they ignored the Asheras in their own kitchens! Or so archaeological finds would suggest.

[Celesta]

Mike,

Is this the Marston Moors that was in Hound of the Baskervilles? Yes, I would think you would need a large group to tackle something like that.

[Mike Covell]

Mike,

Is this the Marston Moors that was in Hound of the Baskervilles? Yes, I would think you would need a large group to tackle something like that.

I am not sure, I have read several books about it in the past but have never taken much notice as I usually try and find "local" phenomena.

We have loads of places up and coming, and not a day goes by, when I don't get informed of a new location!

[Celesta]

Actually, Mike, I may be confused. There's a Colonel Marston in the Schlock Holmes stories, so I may have gotten that mixed up with the Moors. I think that was the Grimpen Mire in Schlock's stories. It's been a long time since I read those.

Where is everybody?

[Tom_Wescott]

Celesta,

Are you ridiculing Sherlock Holmes when you say Schlock Holmes, or is there really a series of stories called that?

Yours truly,

Tom Wescott

[Celesta]

I'm just kidding, Tom! I've read every Sherlock Holmes story there is. I have that big book with the brown cover that has been around for ages. I love Sherlock Holmes. I think the name Schlock Holmes came from a movie, that had Gene Wilder as Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. I think Wilder's character called Sherlock "Schlock," but I haven't seen that movie in umpty-ump years, so I could be misremembering. Not ridiculing our Sherlock.

[Celesta]

Schlock for Tom

Hi Tom,


I got curious about the origin of the name Schlock. Take a look at this link. There is a series using that name, although I have never heard of it til now. I still think I got it from that Wilder movie, but I can't say for sure.

http://www.sherlockiana.net/books/rev/schlock.html

[Mayerling]

Mayerling, a subsription to Met Art Magazine would be welcomed!!!

I agree Plang - when I can expect my first copy?

Jeff

[Mayerling]

Though he might be more humble , there's no police like Holmes!

I'm just kidding, Tom! I've read every Sherlock Holmes story there is. I have that big book with the brown cover that has been around for ages. I love Sherlock Holmes. I think the name Schlock Holmes came from a movie, that had Gene Wilder as Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother. I think Wilder's character called Sherlock "Schlock," but I haven't seen that movie in umpty-ump years, so I could be misremembering. Not ridiculing our Sherlock.

Hi Celesta and Tom,

This is complicated.

First: Yes there were a series of short stories by the detective novelist / humorist Robert Fish that were spoofs on the Doyle classical 60 story canon. They were about "Schlock Holmes" of Bagle Street, and his assistant Dr. Whatney.

They are not the only spoof on Holmes. Mark Twain wrote a novella called
"A DOUBLE BARRELLED DETECTIVE STORY" in 1902, in which Holmes is spoofed
in botching an investigation (but the best detective spoof Twain did was a piece called "THE STOLEN WHITE ELEPHANT" written decades earlier. Try to read that one).

Bret Harte also wrote a spoof as did O'Henry.

2) The film SHERLOCK HOLMES' SMARTER BROTHER, has names for the characters of Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman based on ... Conan Doyle.

When Conan Doyle was thinking of the story that became the first Holmes' novel/novella: A STUDY IN SCARLET, he called it "A TANGLED SKEIN". The narrator was to be one Dr. Ormond Sacker, and the detective was to be one
"Sherrinford Holmes".

Fortunately for literary immortality, Conan Doyle got rid of these two names. He named the narrator Dr. John H. Watson (there is controversy about the "H." - most people think it is for "Henry", and that Watson's father named him for Cardinal John Henry Newman; others point to an error in the story THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP, where Watson's wife Mary Morstan Watson calls him "James" - so they suggest that the middle initial "H" is for "Hamish", a Scottish version of "James" - actually Conan Doyle had a friend named James Watson, hence the mistake in TWISTED LIP). He renames Holmes "Sherlock", possibly after a cricketer of that name or after one of two prominent 18th Century divines of that name (the Holmes was for the American author, Oliver Wendel Holmes Sr., author of THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE, a Conan Doyle favorite).

Wilder, who helped write the screenplay of the movie, obviously knew something about the history of those names.

Best wishes,

Jeff

[plang]

Mike, you mean gather as many nuts as possible?

[Mike Covell]

Funny you should say that Plang, there is a group on the internet based in my home town who claim to be paranormal investigators. A friend of mine from another group met up with them to join forces and walked away after he found the group carrying out a black mass! They were all robed and chanting!

[plang]

Schlock Holmes. That is a great name for a porn star stud.

[Mike Covell]

I am back on Humberside Paranormal Radio tonight from 23.00 to 01.00 UK time, so it's about lunch time in the USA!

The show can be listened to here,

http://humbersideparanormal.com/inde...d=49&Itemid=79

Here is the announcement of my show, http://humbersideparanormal.com/inde...d=51&Itemid=81


FRIDAY SHOW
This weeks guest is again as promised Mike covell
Mike is our resident historian and he is also a investigator mike always brings us good conversation and good ghost hunting locations
please tune in to mikes show as you wont be disopointed we promise
11pm-1am gmt



I have a big announcement to make on the show regarding my current status in Hull's paranormal Scene!!!!