The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

In " A Scandal in Bohemia " Holmes deduces that Watson had got very wet lately and that he had " a most clumsy and careless servant girl ".

Holmes was in fact a high-school dropout who never returned to school ; according to Bill Amerson, " the closest John ever got to UCLA was breaking into cars in the school's parking lot.

Three months later, on September 28, 1979, Holmes had a rematch with Shavers, who got a title shot by knocking out Ken Norton in one round.

Holmes got up, but Tyson put him down two more times in the round, and the fight was stopped.

The win got Holmes a shot at Evander Holyfield for the Undisputed World Heavyweight Championship.

Holmes won seven consecutive fights and then got another title shot.

Foreman received a nonrefundable $ 1 million deposit, and Holmes got to keep a $ 400, 000 down payment of his $ 4 million purse.

The sketch always ends with the characters saying their catchphrases (" You got that right " for Ferguson, " You betcha " for Morgan, " Tell me about it " for Goy, " Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah " for Abbott as he pours sugar into his coffee, and " Totally " for Holmes, typically in that order ).

In a 2007 interview, Tim Holmes confirmed the band had a potential un-released album: " We ’ ve got at least another album worth of music recorded and we just need to mix it.

Holmes dropped Cooney in round two, but Cooney got up and landed a damage-causing shot to the body by the end of round four.

Bernstein had wanted to do a comedic version of Sherlock Holmes, and when watching the Stupid Pet Tricks segment on Late Night with David Letterman, got the idea for a pet detective.

A 22-year-old student at Kent State University who comes from Uniontown, Ohio, Holmes got onto the show by being one of the two Wendy's Wild Card Winners ( the other being K. C.

Holmes did try out for the show's first season, got to the semifinals of the competition, but was passed over for the televised finals for the Spring of 2004.

Smith would often bring his guitars backstage at concerts, and eventually got his break when Derek St. Holmes, of the Ted Nugent Band, agreed to try out # 2, the second guitar Smith had ever made.

Once he got there, Victor told Holmes that his father was dying as a result of a stroke suffered after he received a letter.

However, towards the end of the 2004 season, Johnson got an opportunity to start after injuries to Priest Holmes and Derrick Blaylock.

Holmes questions Bannister and is apparently interested in the fact that anyone in the room could have got out after having entered with the key.

Other famous owners included Dick Martin ( 1971 ), Lucille Ball ( who got her 1971 Blackhawk as a gift from her husband Gary Morton with a dash plaque saying I Love Lucy-Gary ), Sammy Davis Jr. ( who owned two 1972, one for himself and one for his wife ), Dean Martin ( who owned three and crashed his 1972 Blackhawk with vanity plate DRUNKY ), Robert Goulet ( 1972 ), Evel Knievel ( 1974 ), Wilson Pickett ( 1974 ), Luigi Colani ( 1974 ), Johnnie Taylor ( 1975 ), Johnny Cash ( 1975 ), Curd Jürgens ( 1977 ), Larry Holmes ( 1982 ), as well as Jerry Lewis, Liberace, Willie Nelson, Lou Brock, Isaac Hayes, Muhammed Ali, George Foreman, Tom Jones, Billy Joel, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Al Pacino, Wayne Newton and H. B.

In April 2001, having put together a 31-0 ( 28 knockouts ) record, he got a high profile fight defending his British and Commonwealth titles and challenging for the vacant European title against Robert McCracken, who had unsuccessfully challenged Keith Holmes for the WBC world title the previous year.

According to Holmes, it was an encounter with the father of one of his classmates that led him to take up detection as a profession, and he spent the six years following university working as a consulting detective, before financial difficulties led him to take Watson as a roommate, at which point the narrative of the stories begins.

Warden, however, knowing of Holmes ' treatment and realizing Prewitt is a career soldier, suggests that he try to entice Prewitt to change his mind by doubling up on company punishment.

Other landmark examples include a character made up of broken pieces of a stained-glass window in Young Sherlock Holmes, a shapeshifting character in Willow, a tentacle of water in The Abyss, the T-1000 Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, hordes of armies of robots and fantastic creatures in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the planet Pandora in Avatar.

The name came up in conversation with the novelist John Clellon Holmes who published an early Beat Generation novel, Go ( 1952 ), along with a manifesto in The New York Times Magazine: " This Is the Beat Generation " In 1954, Nolan Miller published his third novel, Why I Am So Beat ( Putnam ), detailing the weekend parties of four students.

Following his fight with Vargas, Trinidad moved up in weight – this time to participate in Don King's middleweight unification tournament featuring IBF champion Bernard Hopkins, WBA champion William Joppy, and WBC champion Keith Holmes.

Holmes helped to set up a robbery that was committed on the morning of June 29, 1981.

In 1979, Holmes with his younger half-brother, David Bowman, opened up a locksmith and used furniture store called The Just Looking Emporium in Los Angeles which both managed.

Holmes ' career was promoted with a series of outrageous claims that he made over the years ( many made up on the spur of the moment by Holmes himself ).

The festival's Blues Stage is always set up in front of the world-famous Blue Front Cafe, which is still operated by proprietor Jimmy " Duck " Holmes who, as a young man, largely learned the local style from Bentonia Blues master Jack Owens.

Holmes's victory over Shavers set up a title shot between Holmes and WBC Heavyweight Champion Ken Norton in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 9, 1978.

Many felt Holmes was unfairly slighted leading up to the fight.

:" John Clellon Holmes ... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said ' You know John, this is really a beat generation '; and he leapt up and said, ' That's it, that's right!

Gillingham plays Sherlock Holmes to his younger counterpart's Doctor Watson ; they progress almost playfully through the novel while the clues mount up and the theories abound.

After the repression following the Red Scare, and general disillusion with the war, Holmes sought to prop up free speech with the " clear and present danger " test, a standard intended to clarify and narrow the circumstances in which speech could be restricted.

Sherlock Holmes ended up being the 8th highest grossing film of 2009.

Through May and June, the band toured with the " classic " line up of McCluskey, Humphreys, Holmes and Cooper.

There are a lot of references that are hard to miss, such as the fact that the little boy winds up being Charlie Chaplin, the detective is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who goes on to writing the Sherlock Holmes mysteries and Roy talks about Zeppelins " taking off " and being a successful invention despite what will happen to the Hindenburg in 1937.

Cooney, a white challenger, was dubbed " The White Hope " in what built up to be a very racially toned fight: see Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney.

Like Sherlock Holmes, he has an omnivorous reading habit ( reflecting that of Ray's own ), which add up to his enormous general knowledge.

* In Jasper Fforde's series of books about Thursday Next, Mycroft is revealed to be Thursday's uncle, having escaped into fiction and taken up residence in the Sherlock Holmes series to escape the evil Goliath Corporation.

S. E. Dahlinger, leading expert on the play Sherlock Holmes, summed him up: " Without seeming to raise his voice or ever to force an emotion, he could be thrilling without bombast or infinitely touching without descending to sentimentality.