This month not only rings in the Holiday Season but also brings us the arrival of a Sherlock Holmes movie to the theaters. The arrival of the movie is a great time to use Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as our quote for this month. Doyle was a British author best known for his books based on the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes as well as several other crime and science fiction stories and historical novels. Doyle’s first significant work came in 1887 when he wrote ‘ A Study in Scarlet’ which was the first known appearance of Sherlock Holmes in one of Doyle’s writings. Arthur’s short stories about Sherlock Holmes would continue to be published in ‘Strand Magazine’. Doyle killed the character of Sherlock Holmes at one point in order to concentrate on more important historical novels but the fan reaction was mostly negative and he wound up bringing the character back from the grave by making the death sound like an excuse for Sherlock Holmes to go deep undercover to unravel a mystery. Holmes would later write political novels surrounding various wars at the time including the Boer War and would go on to write several spiritual novels after his bouts with depression following the deaths of his wife and son. Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes did a great job at convincing people not to rule out any possibilities and to look at every single clue in order to solve a crime. Here is one of Sherlock Holmes’ quotes from one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories on the detective…

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Thomas Hood was a British humorist and poet. Hood began writing and contributing various humorous and poetical articles to the provincial newspapers and magazines. In 1821, he was appointed as Sub-Editor of the ‘London Magazine’ and became acquainted with several established writers and poets such as Thomas de Quincey, Charles Lamb, John Clare and Allan Cunningham. Hood would become ill and created many of his poems and writings while on his sick-bed. Hood would create such popular poems such as ‘Song of the Shirt’ , ‘The Bridge of Sighs’ and ‘The Song of the Laborer’. Hood would later become associated with ‘Athenaeum’ which was a literary magazine that began in 1828. He would become a regular contributor to the magazine until his death. Hood was also an accomplished illustrator having drawn many of his pictures for his Annual Comic Hood Volumes that he created himself. Hood is being used this month for his humorous quote on November’s weather and how it’s easy to tell what time of the year it is based on this quote he gave us about the month of November…

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October at BoobNewb signals the beginning of hockey season. The Montreal Canadians finish up their Centennial season this year and we thought that it would be a great idea to honor the Montreal Canadians with a famous quote from one of their hall of famers – Jacques Plante. Jacques Plante was a goaltender for the Montreal Canadians on a full time basis from 1954 to 1963. He became the first National Hockey League goaltender to wear a mask during a regular season hockey game at a time when goaltenders still hadn’t worn a mask yet and helped to make the mask part of a standardized equipment for goaltenders nowadays. He was also one of the first goaltenders to stick handle with the puck and go behind the net to stop the puck for his defenders as before then goaltenders would simply stay in their nets all of the time and not move around very much.

Plante was also the first goalie to raise his arms up in the air to signal an icing call so that his teammates would know about the call in advance. In addition, Plante would go on to win several awards including the Hart Memorial trophy and the Vezina trophy which was a awarded to the league’s best goaltender. He would eventually be traded to the New York Rangers following several poor seasons due to injury. He would finish his career with the Edmonton Oilers of the WHA. He would later move to Switzerland with his second wife and act as an advisor and goaltending coach but later died of Stomach cancer in 1986. In this month’s quote, Jacques discusses the difficulties of being a goaltender in the NHL back during his playing days…

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Freaks and Geeks is a television show that was produced by Judd Apatow. It lasted only one season and was cancelled after its twelfth episode aired. Despite the cancellation, Freaks and Geeks has gained a cult status and has received critical acclaim from critics with Time Magazine giving it the honor of being labeled as one of the 100 greatest television shows of all time in 2007. The show focuses on Lindsay Weir (played by Linda Cardellini) as she struggles with being a smart student mixed in with a group of ‘Freaks’ who are a bunch of slackers who prefer to have sex and smoke marijuana. The other side of the show focuses on a group of geeks headlined by Lindsay’s brother Sam (played by John Francis Daley) who must survive the school year with his group of geeky friends as they try to avoid being picked on by jocks and other mean spirited individuals.

The show has helped to launch the career of Judd Apatow who has become a successful writer/director/producer in Hollywood and has cast a large portion of the Freaks and Geeks cast with starring roles in some of his movies such as actor Seth Rogan in the film ‘Knocked Up’ , Jason Segal in the film ‘Forgetting Sarah Marshall’ and James Franco in the film ‘ Pineapple Express’. We leave you with a quote from the episode entitled Beers and Weirs’ where Lindsay and Sam’s parents go away for the weekend and Lindsay wants to have a party with alcohol involved. Sam doesn’t think it’s a good idea and consults his two friends Neal and Bill who think that they should switch the alcoholic-beer with non-alcoholic beer without Lindsay knowing about it. Here’s Bill trying to convince his friends about switching the beer to non-alcoholic beer instead…

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It’s back to school time for most kids and we thought we would start the month of August off with a school-themed quote of the month courtesy of the television show ‘Saved by the Bell’. The television show is based on the adventures of a bunch of high school students and their principal at Bayside High school in California. The show would launch the careers of several of its stars including Mario Lopez and Tiffani-Amber Thiessen while other stars such as Dustin Diamond and Mark-Paul Gosselaar had trouble escaping being typecast for their roles on the program. The main character played by Gosselaar is Zack Morris who is popular student at the school and is always trying to find an excuse to skip school and have fun. A large percentage of the episodes deal with Zack’s schemes to skip school by creating elaborate plans that end up backfiring and having to deal with principal Richard Belding played by actor Dennis Haskins.

Another recurring theme in most episodes deals with Zack’s interests in All-American Sweetheart Kelly Kapowski. This storyline would go on for several seasons with Zack and AC Slater trying to outwit each other in order to win Kelly’s love but ultimately Zack would prevail and AC would then go on to date Jesse Spano played by actress Elizabeth Berkley. The show would go on to feature 2 spin-offs which included ‘Saved by the Bell – The College Years’ and ‘Saved by the Bell – The New Class’ which featured a whole new cast of characters with Screech and Mr. Belding being the only characters from the original show to return. We finish off by giving you one of Zack Morris’ quotes on school tests from the episode entitled ‘Zack in the Gift’.

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