#explaining the joke

Readers seemed confused about it.

O dang!

Fun fact: they are called tanks as a diversion tactic before they were to be deployed during WW1, (1916)

the british were trying to hide what they were

So the supplies were labeled as (Water) Tanks and such for shipping and manufacturing

That way german spies would not suspect it was a big gun on wheels.

And then the name just stuck around for the next 109 years

So.... pretty weird.

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casting spells: i use my amulet casting spells that are a lot alike the other spells dignity-wise but CANNOT be combined with them: i use my omtague

St. Veronica was the lady who witnessed Jesus carrying to cross and went to wipe his face and the imprint of the face is still there.

#I don't see the sherlock holmes reference

It's option 4 (I expect this is the one that's also reading as a Phoenix Wright reference, though I don't know the games well enough). Specifically it's a reference to that tumblr post on the Sydney Paget Sherlock Holmes illustrations, which summarizes the basic plot as Sitting On Chairs And Judging People. Famous for the lines "come, Watson! We've got chairs to sit on and people to judge!" and "also fuck that lamppost"

If you look at the last four days it becomes a bit more transparent

Climbing out the Baker Street exit to the Metropolitan Railway

Engaging a private detective to discover his name and address

Assigned Clerk by Detective (Mina wouldn't like that)

Starting to get sick of people Sitting On Chairs and Judging him

Baker Street is the historical end of the Metropolitan Railway line so it was a natural transition from "the Web of Fear" (late 60s Doctor Who episode featuring Yeti in the Underground) into a Shelock Holmes encounter. Will Holmes successfully solve the case and send him home to Exeter or will Jonathan tire of his methods and abscond into a new random London encounter?

Hey friends,

I just wanted to say a couple of things about the Goncharov joke I made the other day:

First, I do not regret it, because I still think it’s hilarious.

But more seriously...

I didn’t try to edit IMDB. It’s a public record and it’s important that we don’t vandalise those. The only reason to try and change or annotate a public record is when they are wrong, and then it’s really important to try and get it changed or annotated. In this case, I just did a very quick editing job with Paint.NET, my free art app of choice.

I waited until Lynda Carter (or her team on her behalf) had already made a joke about Goncharov to show they were in on it, and probably wouldn’t be confused or offended. Once I saw they were likely to get the joke, I went ahead with it.

Once I had posted, I didn’t flag it with Lynda Carter or her team in any way. It’s generally a bad idea to pester celebrities with your own fan works for a lot of reasons -- it can overwhelm and offend to start with, which is reason enough, and what I was concerned about in this case. But depending on the fanwork it can also have legal implications (eg. if they are a writer and you send them a written fanwork, it opens them to a possible copyright infringement lawsuit if they come up with a similar idea off their own bat later). In this case, I just tagged it “Lynda Carter” and she or her team likely found it that way. I’m tickled pink that they did and also thought it was funny and worth a reblog, but it’s not something I sought out.

I also made some changes to the screepcaps I used in the post, which were from Starsky & Hutch. I generally always make some kind of edits to screencaps so they are transformative works. In this case, I changed the colour-grade so they looked more like the right genre, and did a bit of cleaning up and cropping because I just got them from YouTube and the quality wasn’t great.

I wanted to make this post because I’ve seen a few people in the tags wonder who had changed IMDB to add Goncharov to Ms Carter’s page. Maybe they were just making very meta jokes, but in case they weren’t -- I didn’t change anything and IMDB’s entry for Lynda Carter is still barren of Goncharov.

Please don’t try to change public records for a joke. It’s a very terrible idea.

If you see anyone confused by the Goncharov joke I made, please direct them here to put their mind at ease.