'Okay, so you've got an inferiority complex about people calling you junk mail. What are your feelings when you write that down?'



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Hey Ooktavia, while you and Jon are mucking about in Dr. Who, could you make sure they actually finish "Shada"?

For those who don't know entirely too much about this show (and I don't even have a not (or real) boyfriend to blame) , Shada would have been the second Tom Baker episode written by Douglas Adams (the first being "City of Death", the one in Paris with Julian Glover stealing the Mona Lisa). Apparently filming was interuppted by an actor's strike, and by the time the strike was over all the actors' contracts had run out. I've seen a version where they patched together the bits that are left, with the story being narrated (by TB, I believe), and there's one particular chase scene with the Doctor on a bicycle, being chased by some spherical object, for which the special effects had been added to some of the clips, and not to others, so it kept disappearing (leaving the Doctor looking worriedly over his shoulder at nothing) and reappearing.

Speaking of City of Death...

Doctor: "Hello, I'm the Doctor, I'm a thief. This is Romana, she's my accomplice, and this is Duggan, he's the detective who's been kind enough to catch us. You see, our two lines of work dovetail beautifully."

Count Scarlioni: "Who sent you?"

Doctor: "Who sent me what?"

Countess (aside to Count): "I don't think he's as stupid as he seems."

Count (in reply): "Nobody is as stupid as he seems."

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So far as dating online goes, my brother met his wife on a bulletin board in the 80's (before the web). Mind you, they started dating when my brother was only 17 and she was 23, but he was actually the more mature of the two of them (and still is by far).

I've met a lot of folks online, but most of the nice men have been married, and the rest have been geographically challenged with respect to my location.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
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Magda wrote:

> Hey Ooktavia, while you and Jon are mucking about in Dr. Who,
> could you make sure they actually finish "Shada"?

Magda, your wish is our command ... sort of. See

[news.bbc.co.uk]

for the full exciting story. And did you know that one of the books in the H2G2 sequence (Life, the Universe & Everything, IIRC, the one with the robot warriors of Krikkit) was worked up by DNA from an unmade Dr. Who story?

City of Death is my no. 2 fave Who story, and not just because it's got John Cleese in it.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Anyone interested in Dr Who round here is directed to www.kaldorcity.com, where they will find all the interesting articles on the subject they could wish for, not to mention assorted links. The site is owned by my great friends Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore. Alan has such a lovely voice that I can listen to him boring me about Dr Who for hours on end (and often do), and Fiona is an anthropologist and brings a unique - but never dull - academic perspective to her insights into the programme.

You might also notice the conspicuous presence of a certain Mr Darrow, deeply relishing the role of professional assassin Kaston Iago in Alan's series of SF audio dramas "Kaldor City". Ah well, SF acting is kind of like that... and even at his current age, he still sounds damn good on a CD...



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Sarah

Thanks Jon, that should be interesting. Mind you, it won't quite be the same without Tom Baker and Lalla Ward, but it should still be fun.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

According to the cast list on this site -

[www.tertiary.consoleroom.btinternet.co.uk]

Lalla Ward will be playing Romana. Which is nice, as opposed to Bonnie Langford, who wasn't.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

Strange resonance here - I'll be seeing Lalla Ward on Thursday (er, stay with me here, this isn't dodgy) as she reads bits from her husband Richard Dawkins' new book while he talks about stuff.

I'm mostly going as it was the only way I could think of to have an excuse to meet up with a girl I realy liked from Durham... Which is all a bit complicated, really, but should be fun....


I still think she did her best work with the Teletubbies though....



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

Well, I played with a couple of the Dr Who quizzes here:
[www.bbc.co.uk]

Only got about 60% on the experts quiz (100 question version).

One of the easy quizzes (which I aced) gave me the following question:
Question 6
The Daleks come from where?
A Skaro
B Scarman
C Swindon

Hmmmmm.........



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

Magda wrote:> Question 6
> The Daleks come from where?
> A Skaro
> B Scarman
> C Swindon
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> Hmmmmm.........

It certainly looks like somewhere designed by (and possibly for) Daleks.



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

For some reason I'm now picturing Daleks parading up the Double Helix car ramp, shouting 'THURSDAY NEXT MUST BE EXTERMINATED! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!'.



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

Ha! So, that's why muti storey car parks have ramps instead of stairs!



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I am very interested in the Universe. I am specialising in the Universe and everything surrounding it. - E. L. Wisty

And here was I thinking it was for the cars.......

Naah - they only want you to think that...



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This is the work of an Italian narco-anarchic collective. Don't bother insulting them, they can't read English anyway.

BTW, the other thing on the quiz that particularly amused me was the inclusion of Judi Dench among the choices for who had played Mel. Now there's a thought.....



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"I've often said that the difference between British and American SF TV series is that the British ones have three-dimensional characters and cardboard spaceships, while the Americans do it the other way around."
--Ross Smith

Whilst sorting through a heap of notes, letters, old Christmas cards, concert programmes, magazines, maps & other paperwork that had accumulated in one corner of my bedroom (as such stuff does...) I recently found an old newspaper cutting about a 9-foot-tall Dalek-shaped car that somebody in southern England built a few years ago. He got it properly licenced & insured ( & through the MOT test), and was actually using it for everdya travel around on the public roads! It was even set up so that he could make it call out "Exterminate! Exterminate!" in an appropriately Dalekish voice when he was annoyed by other road-users' driving...

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Four cats. "Envious mutterings." I'm currently living in a (shared) upstairs flat, with no access to a garden (OK, I know that some people keep cats who have to stay indoors all of the time, but in my opinion that's as much cruelty to animals as insisting that they have to spend a lot of teh time out of doors would be...), which means that I can't play host to even one cat at the moment. "Sigh."

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