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[3pipeproblem]

So approximately two months later, I got my brother his birthday present. It's the collector's edition of Bubba Ho-Tep, and features Bruce Campbell as Elvis. It's a good present, if I do say so myself, although I've yet to watch it (it has a 7.9 at imdb, which is higher than sex, lies and videotape...). The guy at the store forgot to charge me for it, which was nice.

Other than that...my dad got back from India yesterday. He seems pretty wiped. He got me some nice Bollywood films to watch. I'll have to see if they work on my DVD player. No musical version of Reservoir Dogs, unfortunately.

And that's about it. I bought Cool Hand Luke and now I kinda want to see Hud.

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[thomppw.livejournal.com]

hullo! i don't know you but i was hoping you could clear up for me what a "three pipe problem" actually means. sorry to presume.

[3pipeproblem.livejournal.com]

Oh, sure. It's a Sherlock Holmes reference (from the story "The Red Headed League," I think). It's just a problem that requires a lot of thinking--Holmes would have to smoke three pipes before he solved it.

[thomppw.livejournal.com]

haha. thankyou! i knew it was somewhere in sherlock holmes but couldn't remember what sense it actually made and didn't want to go back through a thousand pages of stories to find it. thankyou!

[3pipeproblem.livejournal.com]

No problem!