ACD‘s birthday

[mightymads]

I don’t have any special content for the occasion, so here’s a funny quote:

I went to a subscription ball the other night—such a lark!’ he told Lottie [ACD to his sister]. ‘I got as drunk as an owl by some mischance. I have a dim recollection that I proposed to half the women in the room—married and single. I got one letter next day signed “Ruby” and saying the writer had said “yes” when she meant “no”—but who the deuce she was or what she had said “yes” about I can’t conceive.’
—Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters, about ACD’s young days in Southsea

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Happy birthday, Artie! *blows streamer horn*

[mightymads]

I remembered only thanks to Tumblr, tbh 😆

[firecat]

As much as I dislike drunken behavior, this still has me wanting to build a time machine.

[mightymads]

Sometimes ACD did hilarious things, and not only when drunk :)

[mightymads]

Oh yes, he was. Glad that the anecdote made you smile :)