And there's not one abominable Philip Treacy hat in sight.
"Conditions are not just abominable but inhuman," she said.
At least in Paducah, McConnell is not the "abominable no-man," the sour-faced persona of Washington gridlock.
The revelations were numerous: no, that wasn't an abominable Corrs cover, Dreams was beautiful dream pop! Yes, The Chain was used as the Formula One theme tune but it's also One Of The Greatest Songs Ever Written!
Not that The Abominable Bride, unlike earlier episodes of BBC1's triumphant series, is based on an actual Sir Arthur Conan Doyle tale.
Martin and I started this relatively young compared to other Holmes and Watsons, so why not?" 'Sherlock: The Abominable Bride' will be screened on BBC1 on New Year's Day, and in selected cinemas worldwide.
The idea of this decorative mourning, smacking of kitsch, didn't seem exactly abominable, yet quite possibly tasteless.
"Not at all the abominable snowman we're used to hearing about".
(For me, his last truly exceptional track was Lovesexy's Alphabet Street, which made a mockery of the Batman and Diamonds and Pearls albums – not to mention the abominable Sexy MF single, which rightly rose no higher than 66 in the top 100).
Buhs begins his trek in the forests of nineteenth-century America, with tales of wildmen roaming the hills; he then travels to the Himalayas to come to grips (not literally) with the Abominable Snowman, then back to the late 1950s in northern California, where the contemporary creature first emerged as a media marvel.
