Pathetic fangirling is the best kind. It's nice to have someone you can be a complete and total dork with, knowing all the while that they are just as bad. I note that you have discovered my secret weakness - the inability to back down from a dare. Consider yourself on.

I actually like that Watson got rid of the dog for the comfort of a man he'd only been living with for a few weeks. He was clearly enamoured from the beginning. And I think that Watson making a deliberate "Holmes and Irene were not shagging" statement proves that fairly well. (I tend to think that "John, I'm only dancing" is the Holmes/Adler song).

(No, I think the "strangest theory" award has to go to the "Holmes was disguised as a horse in STUD" one. Because I think it would be fairly easy to tell the difference between a pantomime horse and a real one).