The Sherlock Holmes Meme Weekend Open Trackbacks

In “A Study in Scarlet” Dr. John Watson lays out the limits of the great Sherlock Holmes’ knowledge:

Knowledge of Literature, Philosophy, and Astronomy-Nil
Knowledge of Politics-Feeble
Knowledge of Botany.—Variable. Well up in belladonna, opium, and poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening.
Knowledge of Geology.—Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks, has shown me splashes upon his trousers, and told me by their colour and consistence in what part of London he had received them.
Knowledge of Chemistry.—Profound.

Knowledge of Anatomy.—Accurate, but unsystematic.
Knowledge of Sensational Literature.—Immense. He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.
Plays the violin with questionable skill.
Is an expert singlestick player, boxer, and swordsman.
Has a good practical knowledge of British law.

I decided to do a Meme based on this famous description of Holmes. Below are the questions and my answers:

1) What is something you know practically nothing about?

Geology.

2) What is something where your knowledge is weak?

Automobile Repair.

3) What is something you know just enough about to get by?

Mutual fund investing.

4) What is something where you have a profound depth of knowledge?

Political processes.

5) What is something that you do even though you don’t do it well?

Sing.

6) What is something you are expert at?

Oral interpretation.

Now, this meme is very different and I don’t know how many bloggers will take it. Indeed, for a blogger to admit they don’t know something will be a monumental event. However, I trust it will get some interest.

In advance I take the following people who are likely to willingly serve as Guinea Pigs for this meme:

Elementary, my dear Yak
Third World Holmes

Now, onto the Party. First, the rules:

1) Post about anything that’s in good taste. No porn, no spam, no profanity.

2) Send me a trackback of any tasteful post you want and as soon as I check my blog, I’ll update this post with your link provided you link back to this thread. If your software won’t allow you to send trackbacks, just use the Wizbang Standalone Pinger
3) Deadline is Sunday at 11:00 PM MDT. Further trackbacks won’t be posted after that time.

For your convenience here’s today’s >link and the trackback:

http://adamsweb.us/blog/htsrv/trackback.php/2554

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