Holmes and his pipe. I am partial to the Holmes stories myself and happened to see the atrocious Guy Ritchie film recently. Give me Rathbone any day. The sign is a no smoking sign. I rather like its elegance and lack of clarity. It has been designed for readers of Chinese only. Rather than representing smokers with an impersonal lit cigarette with a red line struck through it, they take Holmes, the Englishman, to represent all the smokers in the world, crediting them with style and simply inviting them to smoke elsewhere. How very civilised, Watson.