poirot

He’s also got a good book on it and what it was like to be Poirot for that long.

Most examples of 'truth-seeking' however, in fiction are portrayed in the reverse: unlike sherlock on who House is based, columbo/poirot/etc.

Apparently she sells particularly well in French because Poirot is a popular character with French-speaking people.

There are GUI tools for this like poirot[3], but the command line still exists because of its accessibility, uniformity, and extensibility.

This one in particular seems too implausible - inspiration for Poirot and Downton Abbey?

Hercule Poirot or Sherlock Holmes could also be saying something like this.

You know, I just saw the new Hercule Poirot movie (hey, I'm a fan), and I had the same experience.

If you never watched the Hercule Poirot series with David Suchet, I highly recommend it.

Picture yourself reading a Hercule Poirot story by Agatha Christie, but stop reading just as Hercule summons all the participants into the living room to wrap up the story.

Suchet's Poirot is definitely good, but I should point out that it is produced by ITV not BBC (their long term rival).

To properly appreciate a post like this one, it should ideally be paired with a Raymond Chen post that argues in Hercule Poirot style irrefutable logic how a combination of backwards-compatibility with CP/M and some 1990s programming done by raccoons means that this messed up state of affairs is logically the only way it could possibly be.

I don't watch broadcast television any more at home but I do when visiting family and I now find it immensely irritating except for the few splendid things like Suchet's Poirot (better than the books in my opinion).

Hercule Poirot (in "The Cornish Mystery"): "Hein, the pancreas is nothing.

Interesting find: "Sherlock Holmes" avoids the Argument/Philosophy loop; "Poirot" does not.

I smugly thought to myself "there's no way it would be able to figure out Hercule Poirot, it's not even worth trying." I'll be damned, it got it.

Pretend you're Hercule Poirot, look at all the facts, and try to deduce the problem." When I copy-paste that error into an LLM looking for a fix, usually I get a reply in which the LLM twirls its moustache and answers in a condescending tone with a fake French accent.

Just compare the characters list in literature: Hercule Poirot: an investigator Linnet Doyle: a rich heiress...

Joan Hickson's is maybe the best (even though I prefer Geraldine McEwan as an actress) but I never took to it like Poirot.

But the Belgians are French, especially Poirot.