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by charlieo88 1008 days ago
And how does the dog figure into the story? Doesn't appear to haven anything to do with the pollination... almost as if this was an early form of click bait to draw in the dog lovers to read the papyrus.
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It's a pop-culture reference to the title of a recent novel and play, which is, in turn, a Sherlock Holmes reference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Incident_of_the_Do...