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bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Saw Dr Who on Top Gear as shown in Oz this week (about Nov 2007 in UK) and learned he took his acting name from a beer (a good one) as his own name was already listed with equity.
Good thing he was 17 at the time or he may have been called David Irn-Bru