If so, it's probably not a clue to anything, but just a friendly reference to a famous line about the Sherlock Holmes stories. One of the biggest Holmes websites is called Always 1895, which in turn is a reference to the years when the original Holmes and Watson were in their prime and a symbol of how in the eternal Victorian world of Sherlock Holmes it is always 1895. The line comes from a poem about Holmes written in the 1942 by Vincent Starrett. I reprint it here:
Here dwell together still two men of note
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very near they seem, yet how remote
That age before the world went all awry.
But still the game’s afoot for those with ears
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:
England is England yet, for all our fears–
Only those things the heart believes are true.
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five.
Here dwell together still two men of note
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very near they seem, yet how remote
That age before the world went all awry.
But still the game’s afoot for those with ears
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:
England is England yet, for all our fears–
Only those things the heart believes are true.
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five.
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02/01/2012 03:02:51 PM
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Yes, I liked it a lot.
02/01/2012 03:26:23 PM
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Re: Yes, I liked it a lot.
02/01/2012 06:40:25 PM
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I only just saw the last episode of the previous season. Which I liked.
02/01/2012 07:41:46 PM
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Well...
02/01/2012 09:00:36 PM
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I like Moffat, I'm not complaining. It's just, where is everybody else?
02/01/2012 11:08:10 PM
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I wonder what the deal was with the view counter on John's blog
03/01/2012 12:53:00 PM
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Yes, the blog actually exists online and is stuck on that number as well
03/01/2012 06:30:05 PM
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Wasn't the number 1895?
03/01/2012 08:30:29 PM
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Argh.
03/01/2012 01:19:41 PM
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Move to England! *NM*
03/01/2012 06:30:20 PM
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Or get a VPN. Or just download the stuff using a method of your choice.
04/01/2012 09:31:12 PM
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That was excellent.
03/01/2012 03:53:46 PM
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Where was it? I couldn't find it *NM*
03/01/2012 04:12:57 PM
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I ...
03/01/2012 06:11:21 PM
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You plead that Prince Edward Island should get a fixed link bridge? *NM*
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