"Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor not a..."

"Elementary, my dear Watson"

"Me Tarzan, you Jane."

These and many more non-musical mondegreens are found at:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations

(before I stumbled across this I didn't even know there was a wikiquote)

That's pretty cool, Anna; thanks. I wonder if somewhere they have the "true" quotation from the Sherlock Holmes books where he said that thing about whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth.

For those of y'all who have your own websites: I found one that has the plainest and best search results page I (keep in mind how ignorant of these things I am) have ever seen. I thought I remembered the phrase blood sweat and tears (or similar) being in the Bible somewhere, and I found this site that:
1.) lists every possible combination of words in the phrase, shown in links of a chain; and,
2.) after each combination, either gives the citations or says No match.
I don't think this is a commercial site, but if it offends anybody, give me a holler and I'll delete it. I just thought that, if any of you like it, you could investigate here what it is and maybe get it for yourself(ves).
http://www.blueletterbible.org/tmp_dir/words/b/1121791395-9284.html

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth.

I'll check my Holmes, but I think that's it.

http://www.bcpl.net/~lmoskowi/HolmesQuotes/q.detection.html

tsuwm!! [blowing kiss] I'd had the idea that that was apocryphal.
You were right, Elizabeth.

James Doohan, aka Scotty, passed away today from pneumonia and complications of Alzheimer's. Although a character actor pre-Star Trek, he was ever after known as the dour Scot, and apparently happy to be.
http://snipurl.com/Scotty

I didn't do it!

The NPR obit mentioned his autobiography: "Beam Me Up, Scotty." I guess apocrypha has its uses...

oh, I hadn't heard.

Well, following my nose from that initial link I came across some of Dot Parker's most famous quips. Here are a few for your delectation ...

- You can lead a horticulture, but you cannot make her think. (When challenged to use the word "horticulture" in a sentence.) This was was for TEd Remington!

- The two most precious words in the English language are "Check enclosed."

- I've been too fucking busy, and vice versa.

Oh wow. :( I did not know. I feel old now, everyone is dieing. sigh......

Rev. Alimae

Yes, I heard this on the six p.m. news. Don't think I'd have described Scotty as dour - he was much too cheerful for that. But a classic character, and much beloved.

Elizabeth the one-time Trekkie

Bye Scotty, sigh, now I feel all melancholy.
Apparently the "dour Scot," whose own accent was Canadian, wanted to play the engineer with a Russian accent but they had already cast the role of Checov. It seems quaint now but it was, in its day, a ground breaking show in many ways.
another once-Trekkie.

From nancyk's link:

The series, which starred William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as the enigmatic Mr. Spock, attracted an enthusiastic following of science fiction fans, especially among teenagers and children, but not enough ratings power. NBC canceled it after three seasons.

Somehow 'enigmatic' doesn't seem quite the right word for Spock.



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