Oh, no, Bertie has had an idea.

[callmebertie.livejournal.com]

Triple-D, we have a problem.

The problem is thus: The future of impoliteness has led to such behavior amongst chaps (and, on rare occasion, the fillies as well) that it makes me look the perfect model of charm and grace!

It makes my sense of style look timid and restrained. While at Jack's and Ianto's world, I think I came very close to witnessing Jeeves have a heart-attack.

Now, I'm sure, actually, I know there are chaps from my world and time that seem to think about women in the ugly way that Xigbar does. But even they have the decency not to speak about it in mixed company, and certainly not with some sort of twisted pride about the whole thing!

I mean to say, a lovely profile is fine to admire, and, er, a bit of, well, let's just say, some friendly knee-fondling, is, well, rather nice, that's certainly not all there is! Doesn't anyone like to chat anymore?

But I had a thought. Perhaps a big part of it is simple ignorance! I know I've been accidentally rude countless times, because I wasn't aware of the proper conduct.

So, men of Triple-D! How would you like some lessons in being a gentleman? And, er, Jeeves, how would you like to help teach?

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[mydearboswell.livejournal.com]

Writing our adventures? No - no I haven't. To be quite honest, the thought of writing them down hasn't occurred to me. Of course, I take notes of Holmes' cases on the event that Holmes invites me to join him, but otherwise...

It is quite disconcerting to be told that you are to do something in the future when I hadn't even the slightest inclination of doing it in the first place.

[[ooc. He doesn't publish A Study in Scarlet for another three years. Heh.]]

[callmebertie.livejournal.com]

I think the publication had something to do with Mr. Holmes being sick and tired of him doing all the work and Scotland Yard taking all of the credit. It was a sort of 'take that!', you see.

But now I wonder if I should have said any of that. Terribly sorry. Er. It's just that I'm a rather enthusiastic follower, and.

Actually, I rather made a fool of myself in front of Mr. Holmes, and.

Oh, dash it, nevermind.

[Three years? Goodness. *tries to remember the canonically shaky timeline* Has STUD happened yet? Or is it just about to happen?]

[mydearboswell.livejournal.com]

You are quite right in that Scotland Yard takes almost all of Holmes' work and call it their own. You have no idea who much it irks me to see a case 'solved' by a Mr. Gregson or some other police officer when I know they had very little part in its solving. Although I'll have you know that Holmes himself doesn't seem very troubled by his lack of credit. He calls them "simple problems," you see. Not worthy of his great intellect, I suppose.

Have you met Holmes in person, then?

[[ooc. Heh, we're situated in 1883 right now, and 1887 is when STUD is published. If you assume that STUD happened when Watson says it did (and there are some that say it actually happened later, then both STUD and SPEC have happened already. And then again, it depends on which chronicler you ask, of course ^^]]

GTG, byes!

[callmebertie.livejournal.com]

Not quite in person. On this community.