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Tussle

Introduction

This is an April 1998 message from Miss Roylott to the HOUNDS-L list, originally with the subject line "Re: CUPS (really um, sex)". At the beginning, Miss Roylott quotes from a chain of three earlier Hounds messages.

Tussle

by Miss Roylott

> > > Anyone care to write a paper on the relative sizes of Holmes'
> > > and Watson's coffee and tea cups?
> > ***********************************************
> >I'd be much more interested in the size of Kitty Winter's cups!
>
> You know, on the Bakerstreet list, there was a recent discussion
> about who would come out on top in a no-holds-barred fight,
> Holmes or Watson. The Lascar's response above is now making
> me wonder about comparative cup size...
>
> Nevermind!
>
> a diggler-worth of difference

Oh, my! But why on earth would they be fighting? Not our dear old chummy devoted friends! They'd have to be really upset and angry, and they might both hurt each other! What with Holmes being an excellent boxer and Watson being a rugged ex-Army doctor. Oh, oh, it's too much for me to bear. I shall have to shut my eyes!

Except--

Did you say "come out on top"? Not, "who would be victorious" but "who would come out on top. . . Holmes or Watson"? Oh dear, your wording is giving me um, unladylike thoughts. Watson *on top* of Holmes . . . or Holmes *on top* of Watson. Oh dear, I shall have to open--shut!--my eyes before this tussle on the floor gets anymore heated!

Miss Roylott
(being not quite so innocent as you may believe. . .)

Notes

Kitty Winter
Ms. Winter is a character from the story "The Illustrious Client," wherein it is suggested, but not clearly stated, that she is a 'fallen woman' of some kind, ruined by Baron Adelbert Gruner. The Lascar anachronistically, but humourously, refers to Kitty Winter's brassiere cup size.
a diggler-worth of difference
It should be noted that, usually, this writer's nom is "a penny-worth of difference." Her nom is from Holmes's remark to Watson that whether the sun goes round the earth or the earth around the sun would not make "a penny-worth of difference" to Holmes (STUD).

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