NE thing I love about most Sherlockians is that they are aware of the line that exists between serious scholarship and self-parody, and cross over it frequently. Ironic cartoons, terrible limericks, and –of course– silly songs then become the order of the day, as you’ll see with Craig Hilton’s mash-up of Gilbert, Sullivan and Sherlock entitled The Very Model of a Modern-Day Sherlockian:

I am the very model of a modern-day Sherlockian,
I rank Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Asimov and Tolkien,
I’m versed in all the works, both imitative and canonical,
Through setting each to memory by strategies mnemonical;
I hold the view from Reichenbach of Holmes’s spark unstoppable,
Believe in all remaining things, no matter how improbable,
I’ll proudly tell you how to pace the ritual Musgravian,
And why you get a limp from being shot in the subclavian.

(And why you get a limp from being shot in the subclavian.
And why you get a limp from being shot in the subclavian.
And why you get a limp from being shot in the subclavi-avian.)

Read the rest (from The Sherlock Holmes Society of Western Australia).