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David Lockmiller · 07-06-2018, 01:07 AM

(07-05-2018 07:26 PM)L Verge Wrote: Donna - Your mother and I would have gotten along just fine!

I did make it to work by 8:30, but by 3 pm, I was so tired that I couldn't wait to leave. I managed to stick it out until 4:15 and almost fell asleep at the wheel. To top everything off, this medical stuff has brought me the "pleasures" of enduring gout from time to time. Gout is a form of arthritis, which I have a good case of, and it is triggered by certain foods that produce purines - tiny crystals that form in your joints (usually the big toe or other joints related to the foot) and hurt like heck. BTW, those nutritionists lie when they tell you to ear fresh vegetables and fruits. With my condition so far, those tear me apart!

I managed to get my shoe on this morning, but the foot had swollen so badly by the time I got home that I thought it would take a crowbar to get that shoe off.

Stick with me folks; pretty soon I should have my first year of med school completed just by going through all this. I'll share my findings free of charge.

Laurie, your post reminded me of the old Sherlock Holmes movie "Dressed to Kill" with Nigel Bruce and Basil Rathbone that I saw early last Sunday morning.

It was at the point in the movie that Dr. Watson provided accidentally the identifying clue that permitted Holmes to solve the mystery of who Dr. S. was in the missing portion of a three music box message.

By Dr. Watson mentioning Dr. Samuel Johnson, Holmes was able to determine the correct answer and was able to get to the prize in Dr. Johnson's museum home before Mrs. Courtney and her criminal accomplices were able to get there. Of course, the theatrics of the capture had Sherlock Holmes taking on the role and disguise of a visitor guide, presenting obscure facts and answering questions about Dr. Samuel Johnson's life to the tour group as only the extensively knowledgeable Sherlock Holmes can do.

Now that I have set the stage, here is the conversational tie to your post which I found by Googling "Dressed to Kill" movie transcript:

Holmes in tour guide role: "On this table Doctor Johnson's cat Hodge used to sleep while his master worked. But the strange thing about this cat, ladies and gentlemen, was its love of oysters.They do say that the dear Doctor often went hungry to find the cat that delicacy."

Woman tour member: "What a pity."

Sherlock Holmes: "Now we will visit the bedroom,which is immediately below us in which you will see the very bed in which Doctor Johnson died.

Same woman tour member: "What did he die of?"

Sherlock Holmes: "Gout. Just gout."

This is near the end of the movie when Sherlock Holmes came back up stairs to capture Mrs. Courtney and her accomplices just after they had located the duplicate set of five pound note plates, on the third shelf of Dr. Johnson's bookcase, that would have led to financial chaos and ruin for England without Holmes' intervention.

P.S. I cannot recall seeing in this movie the photograph of Abraham Lincoln on the wall of the apartment at 221-B, Baker Street. Roger, posted the Lincoln photograph in an earlier posting from a different Sherlock Holmes movie.

P.S. I have had gout in my right big toe on a number of occasions, like you. It's like having shards of glass in your veins and it lasts for days at a time. Not enjoyable.