Did Sherlock Holmes Have a Sense of Humor?

<h4 style="text-align: center;">“Homes seldom laughed.” [MAZA]  </h4> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">  </div> <div> <div>Sherlock Holmes could be deadly serious. As in his encounter with Professor Moriarty, his matter-of-fact explanations, and when Watson wrote "Holmes seldom laughed" in "The Mazarin Stone."</div> <div> </div> <div>But was Sherlock Holmes really all that humorless? Fortunately, we have decades of Watson's chronicles from which to choose. Let's get into it. After all, it's just a Trifle.</div> </div> <div> <div> <div style="margin: 0px;"> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> </div> <div style="text-align: center;"> </div> <h3><strong>Links / Notes</strong></h3> <ul> <li style="text-align: left;">This episode: <a href= "https://ihose.co/trifles259" target="_blank" rel= "noopener">ihose.co/trifles259</a></li> <li style="text-align: left;"><a href= "https://www.futilitycloset.com/2021/12/09/data/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Data!</a> (Futility Closet)</li> <li style="text-align: left;">Find us on <a href= "facebook.com/ihearofsherlock">Facebook</a>, <a href= "https://twitter.com/ihearofsherlock">Twitter</a>, <a href= "https://instagram.com/ihearofsherlock">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/ihearofsherlock">YouTube</a></li> <li>Email us at trifles @ ihearofsherlock.com</li> <li>Support us on <a href= "https://patreon.com/trifles">Patreon</a></li> </ul> <div> </div> <h3><strong>Sponsor</strong></h3> <div><a href="https://ihose.co/BSJ" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><em>The Baker Street Journal</em></a></div> <h3><strong> </strong></h3> <h3><strong>Music credits</strong></h3> <div>Performers: Uncredited violinist, US Marine Chamber Orchestra</div> <div>Publisher Info.: Washington, DC: <a href= "https://www.marineband.marines.mil/">United States Marine Band</a></div> <div>Copyright: <a href= "https://imslp.org/wiki/IMSLP:Creative_Commons_Attribution_3.0">Creative Commons Attribution 3.0</a></div> <div> </div> <div>--</div> </div> </div> <div> </d