Saturday, January 28, 2017
LINK: "The 3 most famous names in history are Jesus Christ, Sherlock Holmes, and Harry Houdini"
Garson O’Toole's clever blog Quote Investigator today tackles a quote by George Bernard Shaw who identified the three most famous names in history as "Jesus Christ, Sherlock Holmes, and Harry Houdini." But did Shaw really say it? Did someone else? Did anyone say it? Click the headline and have a read.
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A while back I researched this and found nothing
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The author didn't use it, but Bill Mullins, I believe, brought up the possibility that it was John Bennett Shaw who actually said this.
ReplyDeleteI think you replace Holmes with Elvis and you got it.
ReplyDeleteEscapologist Murray performed for George Bernard Shaw. If this was his response, it's no wonder that Murray didn't like Houdini!
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I don't know whether Bill Mullins ever attributed the quote to John Bennett Shaw, but I did. It's been my pet theory about the matter for years. See, for example, the first comment (August 18, 2011 @ 5:28pm) at http://freakonomics.com/2011/08/18/there-are-opinions-and-then-there-are-facts/
ReplyDeleteIt makes good sense, given that his name is Shaw, he was known to reverse Holmes, and as an Irregular undoubtedly knew of the Houdini/Doyle nexus.
To *revere* Holmes. God bless autocorrect.
ReplyDeleteAh, yes, maybe that was you then, via your comment, that brought that idea into the investigation. I think you're onto something.
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