cigars in the coal-scuttle.....................?

"An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.  Not that I am in the least conventional in that respect myself.  The rough-and-tumble work in Afghanistan, coming on top of natural Bohemianism of disposition, has made me rather more lax than befits a medical man.  But with me there is a limit, and when I find a man who keeps his cigars in the coal-scuttle, his tobacco in the toe end of a Persian slipper, and his unanswered correspondence transfixed by a jack-knife into the very centre of his wooden mantelpiece, then I begin to give myself virtuous airs.  I have always held, too, that pistol practice should be distinctly an open-air pastime; and when Holmes, in one of his queer humors, would sit in an armchair with his hair-trigger and a hundred Boxer cartridges and proceed to adorn the opposite wall with a patriotic V.R. done in bullet-pocks, I felt strongly that neither the atmosphere nor the appearance of our room was improved by it."
-A. Conan Doyle, The Musgrave Ritual

The new Sherlock Holmes (Elementary) TV series is on again tonight.  The first episode was pretty good, although Lucy Liu as Watson takes some getting used to.  Maybe I'm just getting older and the ears don't work nearly as well as they used to, but I also miss the crisp elocution of Jeremy Brett.  Regardless, the game is afoot and we shall be watching.