Letters to the Editor
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But which one wrote the monograph on identifying cigarette ash?
The one on marijuana cigarettes? When I use to read about Sherlock, many long decades ago, that was the only kind that mattered. One toke over the line sweet Jesus, one toke over the line; sitting in a ...
(peace brother, and a little Bud to go with it)
I must go back to work; have fun.
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Cigarette
http://tinyurl.com/2jfc5a
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BLAME IT ON THE RED-TAPE FISA!
Sung by the Gonzales CLONE and Bush-ANUS-Kissing toady Michael Mukasey:
"BLAME IT ON THE RED-TAPE FISA, WITH ITS NUMEROUS RULES!
BLAME IT ON THE RED-TAPE FISA, WHEN WE ARE THE FOOLS!
OH, IT BEGAN WITH JUST ONE LITTLE MISS
BUT THEN IT ENDED UP A BIG PUDDLE OF PISS!
BLAME IT ON THE RED-TAPE FISA
(THE FLOP OF BUMBLING DOLTS!)
(NOW WAS IT THE WARRANT?)
NO, NO, THE RED-TAPE FISA
(OR THE BROKEN SNOOPER?)
NO, NO, THE RED-TAPE FISA
(NOW WAS IT OUR INEPTITUDE?)
YEAH, YEAH, THE RED-TAPE FISA
(THE FLOP OF BUMBLING DOLTS!)"
[TO THE TUNE OF "BLAME IT ON THE BOSSA NOVA", with APOLOGIES to Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Eydie Gorme]
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Hey, it did not say tobbaco...
It might have been ... ah hell, goodnight.
http://tinyurl.com/2jfc5a
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All of the above?
... in "The Boscombe Valley Mystery," Holmes expresses his knowledge of different varieties of tobacco ash, and tells of the monograph he wrote on the subject, a very strange field of knowledge, but it is understandable seeing as how it relates to his detective work. Holmes states, "I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this and written a little monograph on the ashes of one hundred forty different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco."
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That was from Wikipedia
other stories make reference to "tobacco" monograph, IIRC.
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Don't toy with me
I know my Conan Doyle. He didn't write that book.
The Infernal Device and Others: A Professor Moriarty Omnibus (Professor Moriarty Novels) (Paperback)
by Michael Kurland (Author)
In the Conan Doyle stories it was cigar ash.
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BaruchOlam
Let me try another hypothetical, from my own experience. My dog was recently attacked by a pit bull that belongs to my neighbor. I reported the incident to Animal Control, and my neighbor got a citation and a fine. He now hates my guts with a passion, and told me so. He’s too intelligent to do anything rash or overtly criminal, so he blows off some steam, threatens to “get even,” and that’s that.
If I were you and your state one where it is legal to record a conversation without the knowledge of the other party I would make a recording of this man making threats against me.
But, this guy works for the government in Washington (actually, almost everyone in my neighborhood works for the government), and here’s where my hypothetical comes in:
Here’s a man with a grudge against his neighbor, a desire for revenge and access to some datasets that could cause untold mischief… There are some risks, and he would be violating his department’s code of ethics, but hey, the guys at the top have set the example, haven’t they?
They sure have, but frankly it's nothing new.. Look at what J Edgar Hoover did.
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Gordon has it right..
"I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this and written a little monograph on the ashes of one hundred forty different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco."
From "The Boscombe Valley Mystery"
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The reason is obvious
Cigars are hand made, wrapped by hand with full leaves, and cigarettes were not. Even if hand rolled, the paper is pretty uniform and the tobacco is shredded and cut in a fashion to facilitate hannd rolling. I know, I roll my own. You can't tell one cigarette ash from the next by looking. Holmes could look at the ash in the ashtray and tell you what kind of cigar left it.
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Frankly my dear..
Actually I was referring to the entire adult population of the US, of which I suspect a rather small percentage are aware of Mycroft.
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It's Elementary
My dear Watsons.
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@ Mona
That is not accurate, I don't think. None of which is to say Mukasey didn't spew a boatload of lies -- and the 72-hr emergency provision still would obtain -- but it had been my understanding that if the recipient of an overseas call is a "U.S. person," a warrant -- before or after the eavesdropping -- must be obtained.
Actually, with the old (and present, post-PAA-expiration) FISA, it depends on where the intercept is physically done. Se 50 USC § 1801(f)(2). If they actually do the tap overseas. they can get all the foreign target's calls, even into the U.S., without a warrant.
Cheers,
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Holmes cheated
“You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety which are rolled in Rotterdam.”
He looked for the "stump". The butt.
So we are all wrong/right/confused.
I will tell you this, I don't think it is possible to do this with ashes by eyesight. Cigars maybe, but these days they can use technology. It is fiction, after all. Pipe tobacco may be another matter because it rarely all burns. At the bottom of every pipeful some of the tabacco is just charred.