MENTAL NOTE #84:  Sherlock Holmes to Dr. Watson:

“It is quite a three pipe problem … I beg of you not to speak to me for 50-minutes.”

From the Case of “The Red-Headed League” — The Red Headed League (22 Sep. 1985), Starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes, and David Burke as Dr. Watson. The original story was published in August 1891, in The Strand Magazine, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.