I think it is in your nature to start trouble, which is why you aligned yourself with the police. At least that way you're less likely to be arrested for being a troublemaker. :D
I'm afraid he doesn't really make me think of DangerMouse, Bronwyn. Although maybe I'll try to get him to try an eyepatch at some point. And who would be Penfold? Could Mycroft and Sherlock share? Definitely not me.
The eyepatch would go with Sherlock's pirate theme at least? And the fact that he's wee and badass isn't enough to make him DangerMouse? Too bad. Dr. Danger isn't bad, save that it makes me think of both Dr. Death and Dr. Destiny - which may say something about my childhood obsession with superheroes.
Mycroft would be Penfold. I can't even think of a place for Sherlock in that cartoon. Sherlock is far more Invader Zim, really.
You make a good point. Although if I call him 'wee' he shows me just how 'badass' he is. I've learnt that the world is too big, John is not too small...
No suffering you could inflict upon me could match the suffering I'm going through here.
And you're not small. So I won't say anything trite like 'good things come in small packages'.
I've escaped the horrible 'get to know you' thing downstairs. Consigned my name badge to the bin. Given up trying to tell people it's not pronounced 'Lastraid'. Have a few beers, might watch Porto vs. Spartak in a bit. And possibly brave going downstairs later to eat.
We all got pizza, and we've got Mrs H and Anthea and one of her team (I only know his code name, so I probably shouldn't say it here) to help us eat it. I'm not quite sure what we're watching, but it has a lot of explosions.
Mycroft's doing his Greek homework and looking less than impressed. Sherlocks wants to know how they made the explosions. Unnamed team member knows entirely too much about how to make explosions. He's definitely wasted on us.
GREGORY MARTIN FINCHLEY LESTRADE, ARE YOU AND THAT BOY ACTUALLY THE REASON WE'VE HAD NO INTERNET ALL DAY?
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, leading him astray like that! Not to mention I'm still at work at almost 8pm finishing this because I can't do it from home because I HAVE NO INTERNET.
You are the adult! Think about the sorts of morals you're teaching him! If you end up having to arrest him for - for hacking something governmental, I don't know, when he's sixteen, it'll be YOUR FAULT.
You ought to arrest yourself RIGHT NOW, as I'm absolutely sure that wasn't legal, and I bet John knows where you're staying, and I know your boss does, and there you are conveniently surrounded by policemen.
Just because it's fixed now doesn't mean you're off the hook! I see John's conspicuously silent, which no doubt means he agrees with me, although he's to blame as well. He shouldn't have let you do it.
"He's too good to get caught" is not a valid excuse for ANYTHING!
John says I've got to apologize and he says you should too.
I'm sorry, Nichola. Lestrade's right though; it's not his fault. I'm old enough to make my own decisions. It's okay. Mummy wouldn't let us go to prison.
Sorry, I was off getting a sandwich. And being asked what I thought of the barmaid.
Nicky, it wasn't Mycroft's fault. He's a good lad. It was entirely me. He would never have done something like that without my influence. Look, he can even use a semi-colon - that proves he can't be bad.
That's better. Even though you haven't actually said you're sorry at all. And why are you suddenly denying your perfectly decent middle names? It's not like you got Ida Marigold, or Annabeth Hope.
Yes, all right, there are worse names in the world.
Sally, I might've guessed you'd turn up. You never knew it because...oooh, I never tell anyone? There's a reason my warrant card just says 'G'. I suppose it's entirely pointless asking you not to tell anyone?
I'm open to bribery. And/or blackmail. But I'm also not the only one at work who reads your blog. It's all right. Once you start turning up on the motorbike again they'll forget all about it.
In my defence, I didn't know he was called 'Danger' when we started seeing each other!
Today has been made slightly better by meeting and old friend - well, actually an ex of mine - so we're having lunch together, avoiding some of the less desirable conversations you can get dragged into at these things.
Sally - really? I was wondering who all the people voting on the polls were. I assumed it was you logging on from each computer in the office.
Innie - he's one of the few I could do this with. We went out together about 18 years ago, when we were both in London. He's drugs squad in Birmingham now.
Sally - I have no idea what you're on about, as usual.
Or that you liked Orange. But yes, try working. You might like it.
Oh, Christ. We had a fling 18 years ago! He's bloody got a wife and kids now. We even talked about John and the boys. right after he got thoroughly embarrassed about asking me about my marriage. We're not about to start Fucking each other over lunch!
In defense of my name: I'm a lawyer who's retired due to disability, so the name is ironic. I originally cribbed it from Lucy Lawless, whose name occurred to me when I needed a screenname to comment on a TV blog, but I wasn't a Xena fan. It could also be the name of a fighter-sacrifice pair in the manga Loveless -- most of them have names ending in -less.
John, a manga is a Japanese comic book. Some of them are translated into English for commercial sale and more are found amiture translated on the internet.
Jumping in to apologize for my comment above - I only meant to applaud you for your maturity in remaining friends with an ex (and possibly to make a silent comparison between that maturity and the . . . lack thereof in someone who'd cut off his sister's internet).
And to explain GQMF = Gentlemen's Quarterly (the men's fashion magazine) Motherfucker. It's a compliment, really - you're so stylish and badass that you're a GQMF. The L just doesn't fit.
GQMF is an internet thing. um. how to explain. GQ is a magazine, i think? gentlemen's quarterly, full of posh hot dudes. MF stands for mother-fer. the meme usually manifests as a picture of the hot person with a profanity-laden bit of text praising his/her epic amazingness, as seen here http://mylittlemacro.tumblr.com/post/1632184379 <---not work/child safe. basically it means you are hot and badass and hot some more. :D
Quentin would go well with the other names. Gregory Quentin Martin Finchley . . . Lestrade. Or perhaps you could just choose a descriptor like Danger did. Quick? Quixotic? Quicksilver? Quarry? Idek. Toodle, Bronwyn
I absolutely agree, but he'll just question my eyesight and/or sanity as well. Next year for my birthday I think I'll ask him to just take a compliment and say thank you, heh.
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Excellent poll! :D My favourite so far.
I hope you know I'll be posting that uniform picture while you're too far away to defend yourself.
Oh Lestrade, you really do bring these things upon yourself. It must be in your nature to start trouble.
I think it is in your nature to start trouble, which is why you aligned yourself with the police. At least that way you're less likely to be arrested for being a troublemaker. :D
DangerMouse. That is all. *wanders off humming DangerMouse theme*
Toodle-pip,
Bronwyn
You'd post it regardless of proximity. There is free WiFi at my hotel, you know.
I still don't know where it can have come from though.
Lawless, you're one to talk, with a name like that!
Dr. Danger?
Isn't it odd that I never think of him as Doctor John Watson. Mind you, I never think of myself as Inspector, either.
I like "Nanny McDanger".
And now I kind of want to go watch Grey's Anatomy.
Nanny McDanger does have a certain ring to it.
I'm afraid he doesn't really make me think of DangerMouse, Bronwyn. Although maybe I'll try to get him to try an eyepatch at some point. And who would be Penfold? Could Mycroft and Sherlock share? Definitely not me.
The eyepatch would go with Sherlock's pirate theme at least? And the fact that he's wee and badass isn't enough to make him DangerMouse? Too bad. Dr. Danger isn't bad, save that it makes me think of both Dr. Death and Dr. Destiny - which may say something about my childhood obsession with superheroes.
Mycroft would be Penfold. I can't even think of a place for Sherlock in that cartoon. Sherlock is far more Invader Zim, really.
Toodle!
Bronwyn
You make a good point. Although if I call him 'wee' he shows me just how 'badass' he is. I've learnt that the world is too big, John is not too small...
I know you're still mocking me, and you will suffer for it when you get back.
No suffering you could inflict upon me could match the suffering I'm going through here.
And you're not small. So I won't say anything trite like 'good things come in small packages'.
I've escaped the horrible 'get to know you' thing downstairs. Consigned my name badge to the bin. Given up trying to tell people it's not pronounced 'Lastraid'. Have a few beers, might watch Porto vs. Spartak in a bit. And possibly brave going downstairs later to eat.
We all got pizza, and we've got Mrs H and Anthea and one of her team (I only know his code name, so I probably shouldn't say it here) to help us eat it. I'm not quite sure what we're watching, but it has a lot of explosions.
Mycroft's doing his Greek homework and looking less than impressed. Sherlocks wants to know how they made the explosions. Unnamed team member knows entirely too much about how to make explosions. He's definitely wasted on us.
Is this helpful or just depressing? I can stop.
GREGORY MARTIN FINCHLEY LESTRADE, ARE YOU AND THAT BOY ACTUALLY THE REASON WE'VE HAD NO INTERNET ALL DAY?
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, leading him astray like that! Not to mention I'm still at work at almost 8pm finishing this because I can't do it from home because I HAVE NO INTERNET.
Not helpful, but not depressing either...
Nichola, little sis...would you believe me if I said 'No'?
(I am SO glad you don't even know which city I'm in right now.)
And I assure you, if there was leading astray to be done, it would be him leading me. I'm a luddite! I don't know anything about computers!
(And now you know what my job's like...8pm is a fine time to still be at work.)
You are the adult! Think about the sorts of morals you're teaching him! If you end up having to arrest him for - for hacking something governmental, I don't know, when he's sixteen, it'll be YOUR FAULT.
You ought to arrest yourself RIGHT NOW, as I'm absolutely sure that wasn't legal, and I bet John knows where you're staying, and I know your boss does, and there you are conveniently surrounded by policemen.
Ah! Now Danger can vouch for me here - Danger, out of Mycroft and myself, who is the more adult?
Plus, I'm a murder 'tec. He'd be the cyber-crime squads problem. And they wouldn't catch him. He's too good.
But that's all irrelevant, as I'm sure BT having a fault on your line isn't actually a crime - although I admit their customer service is criminal.
Just because it's fixed now doesn't mean you're off the hook! I see John's conspicuously silent, which no doubt means he agrees with me, although he's to blame as well. He shouldn't have let you do it.
"He's too good to get caught" is not a valid excuse for ANYTHING!
Silence cannot be taken as agreement. I can teach you some interrogation techniques if you want...actually, no, on second thoughts, I can't.
It wasn't an excuse. It's just a fact.
Glad BT have sorted that out, then.
John says I've got to apologize and he says you should too.
I'm sorry, Nichola. Lestrade's right though; it's not his fault. I'm old enough to make my own decisions. It's okay. Mummy wouldn't let us go to prison.
GREGORY MARTIN FINCHLEY LESTRADE
...that is possibly the sexiest name i've ever seen. apart from danger watson, of course.
Sorry, I was off getting a sandwich. And being asked what I thought of the barmaid.
Nicky, it wasn't Mycroft's fault. He's a good lad. It was entirely me. He would never have done something like that without my influence. Look, he can even use a semi-colon - that proves he can't be bad.
JustblueyouhavearidiculousnamebutDangerisfabulousindeed - it's not my name. But thank you.
That's better. Even though you haven't actually said you're sorry at all. And why are you suddenly denying your perfectly decent middle names? It's not like you got Ida Marigold, or Annabeth Hope.
admittedly either of those options would have been worse for me - given that I'm male.
But they are not perfectly decent. Well, Martin is okay.
Just....shhhhhhhhhhhhh.
Finchley isn't Hubert, at least.
Martin Finchley? Really? How did I never know this?
Yes, all right, there are worse names in the world.
Sally, I might've guessed you'd turn up. You never knew it because...oooh, I never tell anyone? There's a reason my warrant card just says 'G'. I suppose it's entirely pointless asking you not to tell anyone?
I'm open to bribery. And/or blackmail. But I'm also not the only one at work who reads your blog. It's all right. Once you start turning up on the motorbike again they'll forget all about it.
Well I clearly won't attempt any bribery if you're not he only one who reads this.
Danger, you see the trouble you get me in?
Maybe I'll transfer to Arts and Antiques or something. I bet they don't get this sort of grief. They're all weirdos.
I'm pretty sure a couple of the weirdos from A&A read this too, Martin Finchley. You're pretty popular these days.
Really, you don't date a guy named Danger if you aren't hoping to get into a little trouble.
1) Never get involved in a land war in Asia.
2) Never go up against a Sicilian when death is one the line.
3) Never date men called Danger, if you aren't in the mood for some trouble?
*shrugs* Works for me!
Toodle,
Bronwyn
In my defence, I didn't know he was called 'Danger' when we started seeing each other!
Today has been made slightly better by meeting and old friend - well, actually an ex of mine - so we're having lunch together, avoiding some of the less desirable conversations you can get dragged into at these things.
Sally - really? I was wondering who all the people voting on the polls were. I assumed it was you logging on from each computer in the office.
It's nice to be friends with exes - that takes a certain level of maturity. Tell us more?
God, you really are asking for trouble, aren't you?
And no, if I had that sort of time and motivation the orange would've won. ...I mean, I would've applied it to solving cases. Obviously.
Innie - he's one of the few I could do this with. We went out together about 18 years ago, when we were both in London. He's drugs squad in Birmingham now.
Sally - I have no idea what you're on about, as usual.
Or that you liked Orange. But yes, try working. You might like it.
Just be glad John's more sensible than most people and leave it at that.
Amen, Sally.
Oh, Christ. We had a fling 18 years ago! He's bloody got a wife and kids now. We even talked about John and the boys. right after he got thoroughly embarrassed about asking me about my marriage. We're not about to start Fucking each other over lunch!
In defense of my name: I'm a lawyer who's retired due to disability, so the name is ironic. I originally cribbed it from Lucy Lawless, whose name occurred to me when I needed a screenname to comment on a TV blog, but I wasn't a Xena fan. It could also be the name of a fighter-sacrifice pair in the manga Loveless -- most of them have names ending in -less.
I can assure you, Lawless, attempting to defend names around here does little good.
What's a manga?
And hey, you lot, stop making him paranoid please. Thanks very much.
if you threw a quintus in there, your initials would be GQMF...L.
John, a manga is a Japanese comic book. Some of them are translated into English for commercial sale and more are found amiture translated on the internet.
Okay, GQMF...L you'll have to help me.
Am I paranoid? You've got me worried now...
Jumping in to apologize for my comment above - I only meant to applaud you for your maturity in remaining friends with an ex (and possibly to make a silent comparison between that maturity and the . . . lack thereof in someone who'd cut off his sister's internet).
And to explain GQMF = Gentlemen's Quarterly (the men's fashion magazine) Motherfucker. It's a compliment, really - you're so stylish and badass that you're a GQMF. The L just doesn't fit.
GQMF is an internet thing. um. how to explain. GQ is a magazine, i think? gentlemen's quarterly, full of posh hot dudes. MF stands for mother-fer. the meme usually manifests as a picture of the hot person with a profanity-laden bit of text praising his/her epic amazingness, as seen here http://mylittlemacro.tumblr.com/post/1632184379 <---not work/child safe. basically it means you are hot and badass and hot some more. :D
Innie, justblue - thanks for the education. Stylish, hot and badass. Right.
You absolute bunch of nutters.
You could put it after your name, like a degree. D.I. Lestrade, GQMF.
And thanks, Anon, for the manga explanation.
Quentin would go well with the other names. Gregory Quentin Martin Finchley . . . Lestrade. Or perhaps you could just choose a descriptor like Danger did. Quick? Quixotic? Quicksilver? Quarry? Idek.
Toodle,
Bronwyn
D.I Lestrade, GQMF. Nice. Has a good ring to it...
We're not nutters! I think Danger will agree that we all have excellent taste. And eyesight, and whatnot. ;)
@Bronwyn - I'd go with Quicksilver, only the implication that our good D.I. is poisonous to ingest might not go over so well.
I absolutely agree, but he'll just question my eyesight and/or sanity as well. Next year for my birthday I think I'll ask him to just take a compliment and say thank you, heh.
Ha ha. Compliments from you are slightly easier to take than fro people I've never met.
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