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  • #16167
    Whisht @whisht

    @shazzbot – as far as willy jokes manage to hit home, I blame @wolfweed.

    Generally I blame wolfweed – even at work where they’ve never heard of wolfweed and wonder how it impacts project timelines, I hold firm.

    I hold firm and stand proud.

    I’m never wibbly wobbly at work.

    now, lets leave it there and say no more about it….

    #16168
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    @whisht  Thank God I’m not really a Wolfweed! (I’m actually the talking cabbage that Tom Baker wanted to replace Leela with…)

    z

    #16171

    @Bluesqueakpip

    engineers make terrible boyfriends

    They should stick to building bridges then.

    #16172
    Whisht @whisht

    @wolfweed – you’re a chameleon arched cabbage???!!?

    To be honest, sometimes i feel like I’m a talking aspidistra…

    #16231
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    @whisht   Uncle Rangdo? Gronda! Gronda!

    z

    #16234
    Anonymous @

    @wolfweed

    Now that’s weird. Mrs Fish and I have just been talking about The Adventure Game this morning.

    Here’s Paul ‘Avon’ Darrow having a go at it…

    (Remember, don’t trust Lesley Judd….

    #16457
    TardisBlue @tardisblue

    Broadchurch has finally made it over to this side of the pond, and I’m enjoying it tremendously.

    TardisBlue

    #16458
    TardisBlue @tardisblue

    @htpbdet and/or his nephews or fledgling:

    Please pop your head into the Rose and Crown long enough to let us know you’re OK. I hope you’re enjoying your time back at home, catching up with friends, making plans for Nov. 23rd, and a whole Tardis full of exciting things. I’m usually the one who pops over with a casserole or offers to take out your trash, take the dog for a walk or change the kitty litter/newspaper at the bottom of the birdcage when someone’s on the mend.* And as much as I’d love to offer to do any of these for you, virtual reality makes it a little hard ATM..

    *I *do* draw the line on stuffing ferrets down my clothes, however. It sound like it’d be incredibly uncomfortable, and, besides, importation of domesticated ferrets is illegal in my state. Something about agriculture being the cornerstone of our economy or some such. But I really rather think it’s in reaction to McCoy’s act.

    TardisBlue
    (or message me if you’re not up to the rowdy pub atmosphere yet.)

    * for the newbie who’s wondering why I’m talking about ferrets, google Sylvester McCoy (the Seventh Doctor) and ferrets.

    #16462
    janetteB @janetteb

    @tardisblue and @htpbdet I will wholeheartedly agree and volunteer to aid and abet TardisBlue with pet minding, cake delivery etc. We are missing you HTPBDET.

    Cheers

    Janette

     

    #16466
    Anonymous @

    @tardisblue

    I’ve been enjoying Broadchurch too & surpised at how many folks from DW and its spin-offs are in it. Besides David Tennant & Arthur Darvill:

    Olivia Coleman (plays DS Miller) was the “mother” form of Prisoner Zero in The Eleventh Hour

    Matthew Gravelle (Joe Miller) was a doctor in Torchwood – End of Days

    Susan Brown (Liz Roper) was Bridget Spears in TW – Children of Earth

    Simon Ludders (Trevor Smith) was a patient in New Earth

    David Bradley (Jack Marshall) was Solomon in Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, Shansheeth Blue in The Sarah Jane Adventures – Death of the Doctor and will be playing William Hartnell in the upcoming Adventures in Space and Time

    Tracey Childs (CS Elaine Jenkinson) was Metella in Fires of Pompeii

    Sancha McCormack (Nicky Smith) was a housing officer in Turn Left

    and Simon Rouse (Len Danvers) was Hindle in the BG story Kinda.

    #16467
    HTPBDET @htpbdet

    @tardisblue @janetteb @xad4 @scaryb @craig @Shazzbot @all

    Thanks for the kind words ( and welcome @xad4 ) – much appreciated.

    I have had a little setback with incompatible medication and thus have been retreating into dark, cool places with a “Must Rest” stamp on my forehead.

    I have missed most of what has been posted these last eight or so days but will catch up in time.

    I will probably be in radio silence for a few weeks as things settle into a routine. Well, as much of a routine as there can be when there is a wedding to arrange, nephews to educate on the mysteries of earlier Doctors and thoughts to pull together in preparation for the Anniversary Special.

    Hope you are each and all – everyone of this Forum – having a lovely Summer.

    All the best

    #16469
    Bluesqueakpip @bluesqueakpip

    @htpbdet – glad to see you back, if only briefly. Best of luck with the medication juggling!

    #16470
    Anonymous @

    Hello @htpbdet!  Your week does not sound so great;  I’m so sorry to hear about your troubles.  But glad you took the time to let us know you’re on the mend.  So many of us have missed you.

    Stay cool, stay rested, and hope you’ll be back on these fair shores a lot sooner than ‘a few weeks’.

    #16471
    Anonymous @

    @MadScientist72 – that’s some pretty impressive cast knowledge you have about Broadchurch (and DW and its spinoffs!).  Have you seen the whole thing, or are you in the middle of it?

    #16474
    Craig @craig
    Emperor

    @htpbdet Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus. Glad to hear from you and sorry you’ve been having a tough time. I know multiple medications can be a nightmare, but they do get it right in the end. Will keep my fingers crossed for you.

    Take it easy, and if there’s anything I, or we, can do for you just let me, or us, know. And don’t worry if your Eccleston is a bit late – it’ll be all the sweeter when we do get to read it.

    #16478
    Anonymous @

    @MadScientist72 – Yep, Broadchurch was a ‘Who’s Who’ of Who.

    It used to be the case that if an actor appeared in Poirot and/or Agatha Christie’s Marple then they invariably end up in Dr Who.

    I didn’t watch them first time round but recently started watching the re-runs they have on ITV3. So far I’ve spotted…

    Zoe Wanamaker (Lady Cassandra)

    Simon Callow (Charles Dickens)

    Tim McInnerny (Planet of the Ood)

    Mark Gatiss (Professor Lazarus, voice of ‘Danny Boy’ in Victory of the Daleks)

    David Warner (Cold War)

    Neve McIntosh (Madame Vastra)

    Alexander Armstrong (voice of Mr Smith [SJA] and TDTWATW)

    Frances Barber (Madame Kovarian)

    Clair Skinner (TDTWATW)

    Bob Pugh (TW Series 2 and ‘Grandad’ in The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood)

    Jessica Hynes (Joan Redfern/Verity Newman)

    Anne Reid (Smith and Jones)

    Burn Gorman (Owen Harper)

    Claire Bloom (‘Mystery Woman’ in TEoT)

    Russell Tovey (Voyage of the Damned)

    The actress who played Miss Evangelista in SitL – who’s name escapes me 😳

    And, finally, Catherine Tate who, as you all know, went on to play Donna Noble and shocked many, myself included, by being a pretty fine actress.

    #16481
    sonicginsling @sonicginsling

    Hello pub!! … Hello good people in the pub… hello @shazzbot , @madscientist72 , @fatmaninabox  et merry al …

    Just thought I’d pop in and get a round in (newbies duty and all that…)

    If it helps with the current discussion- in among all the actors who’ve been in DW and TW etc … (Btw – in this land of acronyms – Wtf is ‘TD TWAT W’? … sounds a little rude…)  I have a couple of mates who’ve been in the shows… Ok – don’t get all excited – one was an extra in ‘Human Nature’ and ‘The Family of Blood’ (played Mr Snell, but ended up cruelly cut down and ended up on the cutting room floor …) and another who was in ‘The Sound of Drums’ and ‘Last of the Time Lords’ … ( he was the baldy bodyguard at the bottom of the stairs when the President got minced…) and was also in Torchwood (Baldy guard type again)

    Sooooo …. on with the pub games…

    #16482
    wolfweed @wolfweed
    #16483

    OK, I admit it it…

    This is more an excuse to show off some of my photos: new blog post, nowt to do with Who.

    Also, if you haven’t watch Les Revenants (The Returned) try to track it down or catch it when one of the C4 channels repeats it.

    #16486
    Anonymous @

    @pedant – you know I love your blog entries.  But in this instance, I’m going to be snarky and quote Private Eye no. 1346, page 18, which had a comic by Mike Barfield:

    Great Sporting ‘Britons’: Their Origins

    1.  Chris Froome – born: Kenya

    2.  Kevin Pietersen – born: South Africa

    3.  Mo Farah – born: Somalia

    4.  Happy Fan (“Britons lead the world in sport again!  Hooray!”) – born: yesterday

    I know that wasn’t anything to do with the thesis of your blogpost, but it still made me laugh.

    #16487
    Anonymous @

    sonicginsling

    Wtf is ‘TD TWAT W’?

    The Doctor, The Widow, and The Wardrobe.  The 2011 Christmas special of Doctor Who.

    Your enthusiasm is …. well, it’s enthusiasm.

    #16489

    Oh, I’m fully aware of that @Shazzbot ! (Did you know that Mo has a twin brother who did not come to the UK, but who at school showed similar talent – we could have had two.) And I noted Zola Budd’s mile record. But in athletics this pattern is also true of one or two other places (Ethiopians and Kenyans competing for Sweden and Qatar, for instance).

    But the long term risk, of course, is shown by the problem with football – talented young English players do not get a look in partly because of the fact that it is cheaper to buy foreigners. Our national game is pitiful… This has a potentially ominous foreshadowing for other sports.

    BTW, I love how no commentators point out that Mo prays, in Muslim stylee, after every win…

     

    #16498
    TardisBlue @tardisblue

    @sonicginsling

    (Btw – in this land of acronyms – Wtf is ‘TD TWAT W’? … sounds a little rude…)

    I had to Google it myself. Turns out it’s short for The Doctor, the Widow, and The Wardrobe.

    (ETA: The fleet-fingered @Shazzbot beat me to it … I got distracted by other things before finishing this post.)

    Spotting Doctor Who alumni just might turn into the next Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon.

    I just saw The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and was happy to see that Harriet Jones survived the Dalek attack in TSE (The Stoien Earth). I really liked Jones’ spunk and carry-on-ness in the face of unbelievable tragedy and danger.

    I’d so hoped she had escaped extermination, even if it was through the deus ex machina act of being sent back in time by a Weeping Angel to she live out her life as a woman widowed too soon, who then looses her only son in a tragic auto accident the day that her grandson was born. And, guess what? That happened! On the silver screen, at least. (In plainer, non-bonkers English, Penelope Wilton: Harriet Jones, Former Prime Minister; Jean in TBEMH; and Isobel Crowley in Downton Abbey.)

    And Miss Kizzlet (TBoSJ) seems to have found a new honey in TBEMH (A much more passionate and life-affirming man than Richard E. Grant’s Great Intelligence. Good for you, Celia Imbrie, good for you.)

    @fatmaninabox, I had no idea it was Mark Gatiss, scriptwriter extrodinaire, playing Dr. Lazarus in TLE and voicing Danny Boy and — per Wikipedia — falling through a trap door and getting eaten by the skulls of Headless Monks in TWoRS and playing Mycroft Holmes in the latest version of Sherlock.
    And a warm welcome to our Forum, @sonicginsling, @xad4, and all the other newbies and lurkers.

    TardisBlue

    #16499
    sonicginsling @sonicginsling

    Hi @tardisblue …. I’m just lurking around …. lurking around… lurking? … looking? … around? …  geddit? …. 😉  Oh please yourself… 😀

    @shazzbot .. thanks for the explanation (well, thanks for the chorus of explanation folks – love a good sing-song…)  and yes – enthusiasm is apparently quite healthy – it never hurt Peter Capaldi ! ….

    #16500
    janetteB @janetteb

    @htpbdet. I was glad to hear from you. Hope there will be no more delays to your recovery.

    @wolfweed. You never fail. 🙂

    @tardisblue. A lot can be explained with Weeping Angels..

    Cheers

    Janette

    #16502
    Craig @craig
    Emperor

    @sonicginsling Just to let you know I made a slight edit to your last post above. As you had said… “best not to go there”. I hope you don’t mind.

    #16503
    Whisht @whisht

    Massively belated, but doogy rev @wolfweed doogy rev…

    #16504

    @tardisblue – it’s an old game. It used to be Spot The Buffy Alumni.

    #16510
    TardisBlue @tardisblue

    @pedant

    Wow. I didn’t know Spot had a TV career before his literary debut with Dick and Jane. http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5480088/il_570xN.170029616.jpg

    @htpbdet (and nephews and fledgling)
    So glad to hear from you. Tell those doctors and pharmacists I said to take excellent care of you, OK? I hope that they’ve gotten it all sorted by now, and you no longer feel like the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, Bhopal, Chernobyl, and Love Canal all at once.

    Rest up and concentrate on the important things in life: wedding preparations and the education of nephews about Doctor Who.

    Don’t worry. Feel free to drop by whenever you have the time and energy. As the Motel 6 adverts say, “We’ll leave the light on for you.”

    TardisBlue

    #16545
    sonicginsling @sonicginsling

    Thanks for the edit @craig … Nothing like a little trim to make one more suitable for public presentation… Having spent a couple of years on motorcycle forums, I now have to rein things in and get used to the limits and parameters of this ‘brave new world’, so I’ll rely on your eagle eyes to spot any slips of taste and/or decency that may accidentally dive in under the radar  (Ok, so now everybody else will be wondering what the heck I said … exciting stuff!) Now … as we’re in the pub… a little light-hearted Tomfoolery as we munch the Cheese and Onion…

    Who’d win in a Celebrity Deathmatch fight between a Yeti and an Ogron? ….

     

    #16631
    wolfweed @wolfweed
    #16756
    Anonymous @

    @shazzbot

    that’s some pretty impressive cast knowledge you have about Broadchurch (and DW and its spinoffs!).  Have you seen the whole thing, or are you in the middle of it?

    Nah, just efficient use of IMDB. I thought I’d sen a couple of the actors on DW so I looked it up to see just how many had ties to the series.

    I’ve only seen 3 or 4 episodes so far. It just got to BBC America.

    #16906
    #16910
    Anonymous @

    @pedant – And there goes the commercialisation of all the good things.  ‘Branding?  You don’t have it? Then shove off!’

    I got stuck at an early part of your link, which name-checked Phil Lamarr.  If this is the same one I know, I knew him from the Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles.  Back in the day (early 1990s), I remember when he got a minor film role in a Quentin Tarantino movie.  All of us at the theatre were always ecstatic when a fellow Groundling got a movie deal, but were wary of how many of them got left on the cutting room floor.

    Phil assured us:  ‘I’m in the final cut!  I’m a plot point!’

    Phil Lamarr dies as Marvin in Pulp Fiction

     

    #16929
    Bluesqueakpip @bluesqueakpip

    London now has its own Death Ray

    http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/sep/02/london-skyscraper-melted-my-car-says-motorist

    Burning question: is the architect a Zygon?

    #16930
    janetteB @janetteb

    I thought that was one of the funniest news stories I have read all year. They are just going have to reposition the sun..Can’t have it melting peoples’ jags.

    Cheers

    Janette

    #16931
    Anonymous @

    @bluesqueakpip @janetteb

    This exchange BTL on that Guardian article about the Walkie-Talkie melting a Jag made me laugh:

    It’ll come in handy if we are invaded by giant ants.

    I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords!

    #16934
    stevethewhistle @steve-thorp

    We have our own Dalek (otherwise known as Bridgewater Place) in Leeds.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Place

    It was built with an aerofoil shape in one of the windiest parts of Leeds and it accelerates the winds around it.

    It blew tiles off the roof of the neighbouring Grove Inn, which I found shut for that reason when I once went to celebrate my birthday there.

    There are times when I have nearly been blown off my feet when walking near it.

    On a more serious note, it once killed someone when it blew over a lorry on top of a passing pedestrian, and they often close off the roads near it when there is a high wind.

     

    #17171
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    z

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXDYKLpZE7Y
    Let’s Play: “Dr. Who”
    Step into the shoes of ALL your favorite Doctors from past, present and future, as you race against time, preventing the evil Daleks from- eh, hell if I know, just run around and shoot Doom barrels, then die, the end.

    #17188
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXgfkAAD_TY
    Grand Theft Auto IV – Dalek (Dr Who MOD) HD
    z

    #17190
    blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave

    @wolfweed

    Brilliant Grand Theft Auto -Dalek link. Made my day.

    And speaking of your links and photos, I salute the fact that you have, single-handed, provided us with more Doctor Who enjoyment in the lead-up to the 50th than has been provided by the entire BBC.

     

    #17382
    wolfweed @wolfweed

    http://www.kasterborous.com/2013/09/tom-baker-sees-into-the-future/
    z
    This audio sketch by John Guilor in which the actor voices a spoof Nationwide with Frank Bough interviewing Tom Baker in 1979 might just be what you need…

    #17422
    Anonymous @

    It’s a proud day for Grammar Daleks everywhere:

    The ability to spot a minor grammar error is proof that you are amazing, it has been confirmed.”

    If grammar people just learned to let things go sometimes, where would we be as a civilisation? Just fighting in mud, probably.

    😆

    #17540
    Anonymous @

    OK, y’all know I’m a dog nut, but here’s a lovely article in The Guardian explaining a bit more about why dogs are Man’s Best Friend.  One of the central ideas is that dogs understand ‘pointing’ by humans – something my own lovely Airedales haven’t ever seemed to really ‘get’, but – my boy Triton once did the most extraordinary ‘pointing’ of his own.

    When my dogs were younger , we went to some new woods and wandered around off-piste (rather than keeping to marked paths, as was our wont in a new place).  We stopped for a water break, and continued rambling.  Suddenly, I realised I had only one dog lead around my neck – and I knew instantly that I’d left the other lead where I’d poured their bowl of water.  But, we’d been crashing through undergrowth and around trees for a while since then, and I was totally lost in these new woods.

    I said straight to Triton: ‘I don’t have your lead!  Look, I only have your sister’s; oh no, this is terrible.  Where is your lead?’

    Triton started sauntering off in some random direction, totally different from where I thought we’d been.  I followed him, growing more frantic, and after a few minutes he sat firmly down, flung his head ostentatiously to the left, and held that position.  I caught up to him, and looked where he was looking (Readers, you know what happened next  🙂  ) … and there was his lead, lying on the log where we’d stopped for a drink of water.

    #17541
    Bluesqueakpip @bluesqueakpip

    @Shazzbot. Yup. If you want me to guess at the doggie psychology – Triton understands the word ‘lead’. Leads are important – you can’t have a proper walk without one. Obviously, therefore, ‘where is your lead?’ means ‘Triton, find your lead’. His lead isn’t in sight, but we are on a walk. So there must be a lead. It’s been hidden; all he has to do is find it.

    Once he’s figured out that it’s basically a game of ‘find the lead’, it’s pretty simple (from a dog point of view) to find it again. Follow his own scent back to his own lead. 😉

    #17542
    Anonymous @

    Ha @bluesqueakpip – the story is so much richer than even my wordy ramblings before.  🙂

    Triton was always ‘the stupid one’.  His sister Scout simply and immediately ‘got’ everything I tried to teach them as puppies – sit, lie down, roll over, ‘Hello’ [i.e., ‘give paw’], ‘pray’ [two paws up]; and in the children’s section of the local parks at night, ‘go down the slide’, ‘weave in and out of these poles’, etc.  Scout was always unaccountably eager to please, and did everything absolutely perfectly after one demonstration.  She was so totally The Smart One … I thought.

    Triton, on the other hand … {sigh}.  I don’t want to re-live those noxious training times.  He seemingly couldn’t [wouldn’t; but that’s foreshadowing  🙂  ] do bloody anything.  I thought he didn’t understand.  I thought he was, shall we say, ‘touched’.  He just didn’t seem to ‘get it’.  I wrote him off as the intellectual runt of the litter.

    It was only after his nonchalant rambling through the forest that day, and his disdainful toss of his head toward his found lead, that I realised … oh my giddy aunt, he knew everything!  He just couldn’t be bothered!  I got home from the woods that day and called all my friends, screaming “He always knew what I was saying!  He’s like that kid in the joke who started speaking at 5 years old who suddenly said ‘up until now, everything was satisfactory’.”

    Triton was never The Stupid One.  He’s perhaps smarter than his sister, in that ‘sit, lie down, roll over’ etc was just too bloody boring for him to want to partake in.  It was only when I told him ‘I’ve lost your lead!’ that he thought, ‘well, if Mum’s too much of an idiot to remember where she left it, I guess I’ll have to flipping show her’.  And he did it with an insouciance that to this day I still vividly remember.   😆

    #17543
    Bluesqueakpip @bluesqueakpip

    @Shazzbot – yes, well, I didn’t want to say ‘and by the way – your dog thought you were a complete idiot.’ 😆

    They can be very expressive; sometimes you can practically see them rolling their eyes at our sheer stupidity.

    #17578

    Apropos of nothing, was at an event with Kahler-Jex this evening (this: http://www.berkospeakeasy.co.uk/search/label/what if you are wondering).

    ’twas fun. Seems a v nice chap.

    #17586
    #17587
    Anonymous @

    OK, I know the Doctor Who stuff will be ramping up soon, but I just had to share this one with everyone in the interim:

    Open-plan bathrooms: the ultimate hotel horror?

    I simply cannot believe that any hotel, of any budget but especially not ‘luxury’ ones, think having a bathroom open-plan to the bed is a Good Idea.

    Even if the loo is surrounded by frosted glass.  Because sometimes it’s not:

    in some rooms at the Renaissance Beijing Capital Hotel the lavatory is on show behind its clear glass walls

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