What if we told you that there are extra scenes of your favorite book, written by your favorite writer, that you've never read before? Awesome, right? And what if we told you that they're all incredibly fucking stupid ? We like to think of authors as infallible geniuses who have brilliant ideas coming out of every orifice in their bodies -- but the truth is, even the greatest novel has a cemetery of embarrassing deleted ideas the writers didn't want anyone to see. Here are those ideas:

6 Sherlock Holmes Was Called Sherrinford Hope (and Watson Was Ormond Sacker)

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There's famous, and then there's "your name becomes an everyday phrase" famous. Sherlock Holmes is in the second category. Arthur Conan Doyle probably knew he'd made it as a writer the first time he made an obvious observation and someone said, "Yeah, no shit, Sherlock." Or perhaps it was when he found out his phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" had become extremely common, despite the fact that he never actually wrote it.

This is made even more impressive by the fact that Doyle wrote the first book featuring Holmes book at age 27 and extremely fast. It was all there from the beginning, though: the Baker Street address, the faithful army doctor sidekick, the master detective Sherrinford Hope himself, the ... wait, what the hell is a "Sherrinford"?!

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Are we sure Doyle wasn't just an extremely poor speller?

What Was Scrapped:

As revealed by Doyle's early notes, Sherlock Holmes' original name was Sherrinford Hope, and he was described as a "sleepy eyed young man -- philosopher -- collector of rare violins" (try picturing that on a PI's door). It's not outright stated, but it's implied by his name that he would have been an expert wedgie-receiver, too. It's hard to imagine a character called Sherrinford being deemed cool enough to be portrayed by Robert Downey Jr. in a film. Benedict Cumberbatch? OK, maybe.

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Jonny Lee Miller? Definitely.