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@craig

Let us not forget Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant

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Correction

I should have typed William McBride, not Jimmy

Eric Bogle’s version can be found here

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This YouTube video is a suitable one for Remembrance Day. It is June Tabor’s version of Eric Bogle’s song,

also known as Jimmy McBride and The Green Fields of France. I was singing it to myself most of the morning while I was on my way to my regular MRI scan.

 

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&p=youtube+june+tabor+no+man%27s+land#id=1&vid=90d470d606ecbb927ad304e36e0050b3&action=click

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@lisa

Be careful of believing the Telegraph.

Just after Apil fools day, they ran a story where they claimed that the National Trust had banished mentioning Easter in the publicity for its Easter events, and also managed to get Teresa May and the Archbishop of York to make comments on the bogus story. When I checked on the National Trust’s website at the time. it was obvious that the story was fake news!! but they had managed to get the PM’s and the AoY’s comments to be rebroadcast by the BBC and possibly others

I also heard on the BBC, quoting the Telegraph’s Sport’s page that Cricket’s governing body was going to make it compulsary or test matches to be played on grounds that could be covered with roofs, I have not been able to confirm or deny this by searching the internet but I am suspecting that this is another case of Fake News.

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@mudlark

 

On the Wikipedia Julian and Sandy page

It says “The fiftieth <i>Doctor Who Virgin New Adventures</i> novel <i>Happy Endings</i> by Paul Cornell features a Polari-speaking Silurian musical duo from the 30th century called Jacquilian and Sanki.”

 

I don’t know if they are male or female.

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It is looking like this site is being spammed by mater and pater’s precious little snowflakes as they complain about an episode that hasn’t even been screened yet,and hopefully they will not watch, although that will probably not stop them from commenting,as in the past comments have been posted before episodes have started.

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Will Bill become Handles?

PS

If there is anybody out there whose physics is more up to date than mine, how does time dilation due to gravity combine with any tidal effects?

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Time to be Bonkers

Could Bill’s emotional feeling (and  the ability to feel pain) cause a developement in cybernation where the cybermen become more empathic with people that they try and upgrade?

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Is this week’s David Bowie song “Fill Your Heart”?

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Fully-converted cybermen arn’t supposed to show emotions.

However, fully-converted Bill was crying her eyes out.

Also note Nardole’s digs about The Doctor not showing emotions.

I also wonder whether The Doctor will have the stronger bond wuth Missy or The Master.

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Some lovely bits:

The english teacher not recognising a quote from Shakespeare.

The little white dot at the finish (for any younger people. this is what the broadcast picture defaulted to at the end of the day’s programmes, after the epilogue.) – it might have been through this dot that the “infection” was broadcast,if it wasn’t through the pixelated bit.

The unstated reference to That Thatcher Woman!!! who apart from her propensity to evil deeds, was also notorious for not sleeping much.

 

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<span class=”useratname”>@jphamlore</span>

Oops

I should of realised this

Obviously, my brain tumour and it’s subsequent removal are still having some consequences.

One last daft thought:

truth and consequenes = T&C = terms and conditions.

The original song,  I believe was written by an ex-captain of a slave ship.

 

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One thing that I have not seen disussed yet.

If zygons take on human form, they will surely be able to mate and reproduce with humans.

What will be the status of their offspring?

Bonkers Theory:

Could the hybrid offspring of humans and zygons (with the ability of the zygons to take on the form of other life forms evolving into regeneration) be the progenitors of the time lords?

The wine is going down (too) well tonight!

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I am having trouble working out the full significance of “Amazing Grace” being played, unless it is a reference to Clara saving him.

Could “no dogs” (re-inforced by the sound of barking) be an indication that some of the Zygons have taken on the form of dogs (as in dogs are a man’s best friend)?

Bonnie/Clara’s assessment of Unit having being ‘neutralised’ (horrible Department of Defense (sic) (euphamism) isn’t necessary the true situation (I suspect that the first wave of Zygons were given employment as members of UNIT) and I await to see the how the consequences resolve!!!

 

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EXTERMINATE, EXTERMINATE (to be translated from Dalek)

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Unless I have mised a comment, I don’t think that anybody has mentioned that whereas old- Davros has an eye in the middle of his forehead, boy-Davros desn’t. I think that this implies that the old-Davros and boy Davros may not be the same person (unless the third eye developes later in life, I am not an expert on Dalek anatomy.).

 

It wasn’t until a rewatch that I realised that the tune that the Doctor introduced himself with was the Doctor Who theme. Duh!!! I wonder if this version will be used for the title music.

 

With the parallel between boy-Davros and the boy that Danny saved, Maybe the plan is to rescue the boy and foster him to Clara.

 

I thought that old-Davros was looking very weary after a lifetime of war, and it has occurred to me that this might be the start of an attempt to end the Time War.

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<h2 class=”user-nicename”>@bluesqueakpip</h2>
<h2 class=”user-nicename”></h2>
<h2 class=”user-nicename”>and others</h2>
 

I don’t think that we have mentioned Natalie Bnnett, leader of the Greens yet. Sureely she must be a Silurian. Ed Milliband could be a Cyberman.

 

🙂

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PS sorry about typos in my last posting, the keyboard on my laptop seems to be getting eratic.

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@fatmaninabox

Surely, lookin at the waxen faces of Cameron-Clegg, th Autons hav lredy taken ovr te government,

Also, I am not sure that Monsieur Farage looks human.

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@purofilion

 

It’s not “talking to yourself”,

it’s “Thinking aloud”!

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What did anyone think about The Doctor chalking symbols on the bedroom floor?

I wondered if he was trying to calculate a way to send the dynosaur back to her own time.

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@geoffers

but the race thing, i don’t think that would affect me, if he changed race. perhaps many other fans would be outraged, but as long as the actor is right (as you say)… and british! the doctor should always have an accent, from somewhere in the isles…

This comment of yours made me think of Lenny Henry , and I found this on YouTube (although I would have liked to have heard him do it in his strong Dudley accent).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdfwXiVyE8I

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Re: The Last Day

As there doesn’t seem to be a blog for “The Last Day”……

Was that Christopher Eccleston doing the voice over, or just someone with a very similar accent?

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I ate a salmon fillet with veg for my tea, washed down with a bottle of Chilean Cabinet Sauvignon as I watched last night’s “An Unearthly Child”.

Cheers to HTPBDET & to everyone.

Tomorrow’s the AGM of Friends of DalesBus (aka The Yorkshire Dales Public Transport Users’ Group”), then, in the evening, I will be visiting a nearby cinema to see “The Day Of The Doctor”.

(and then, on Sunday, off for a walk in the Yorkshire Dales – if I wake up in time.)

 

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Not bad at all!!!

It’s of its time, but none the worse for that.

However, I was waiting for two of the flint axes to strike each other and create some sparks!!

At least there weren’t any dinosaurs!

BTW I don’t think that Ian’s attempt at rubbing two Boy Scouts (sorry, sticks) together looked very convincing.

ALSO

The radiation meter at the end would have seemed even more menacing at that time in the cold war, even without fore-knowledge of the Daleks>.

 

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@pedant

I couldn’t agree with you more.

An excellent tribute to William Hartnell. It nearly had me in tears!

 

 

 

 

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@whisht

“…… can there be backward echoes of future events?”

I reckon that this is inevitable if backwards time travel is possible.

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Re: Doctor Who names,

using the informal version of my real name, I am The Doctor.

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The BBC has announced the screening time for “The Day of the Doctor” as 19:50.

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@Shazzbot @scaryb and others,

As I can’t attend the annual 50th anniversary Doctor Who booze-up, I have forwarded a higher res. image of my avatar to @craig for forwarding onwards. I hope that it doesn’t put anyone off their beer etc.

Have a good do.

Steve

BTW Is the collective noun for bonkers theories a FishPond?

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@jimthefish

“Also agree that faux-offence is getting more and more common.”

Mary Whitehouse has a lot to answer for! 😉

 

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To All

Thanks, and keep up the good contributions.

I still remember (on another place) a certain Truculent Sheep (formerly known as Alexander) who, when he was criticised, tried to provoke contributors into making inappropriate comments to try and get them banned from the Guardian comments site.

Cheers

Steve

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@Shazzbot

I am afraid that I must admit ignorance on Martin Mull, although, looking at his CV on Wiki, I must have seen him on the telly.

I remembered the record from it being played on the radio years ago, and did a Google search.

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Sorry, but resistance is futile!

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My favourite episode of the story.

Lovely use of psychology by the Doctor, and also his hand signals to Jamie.

I hope that the Doctor is never made infallible in future stories. There is always the the fun of working out what is going to go wrong.

“When I say, ‘run’, RUN!” 

 

😎

 

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Isn’t it interesting that the Guardian’s web site gives this incoherent twaddle prominence on its web page, but only after you open that article do see a link to this much-better article by Terry Pratchett?

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Wasn’t Jamie McCrimmon a piper?

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@whisht

Definitely BONKERS!!!!!!!!!! (or should that be blinkers?)

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I don’t have a lot to add on this one.

At least Victoria’s screaming had a positive effect for her as it startled Kaftan.

As my hearing is a bit lacking in the high-frequency range these days, I had trouble hearing a lot of the Cybermen’s dialogue. I nearly switched the subtitles on. (I later found out that there weren’t any.)

I would like to point out that the tail-waggling of the cybermats is actually a self-righting mechanism. They would have been even more vulnerable without it.

I think that the Cybermen must have sealed themselves in to await a time when human technology had developed to an extent where they could transport the Cybermen to Earth. The “Tomb” and the technology of the Cybermen seems very run down and it looks like a plan of last resort.

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Have the Autons invaded?

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@fatmaninabox, @Shazzbot

With the bumper crops of nettles, thistles and brambles in recent years, I would have thought that naked rambling was not a very practical idea.

I have not come across the naked rambler or his female companion on my travels, but photos of me streaking (I have retired from it now.) in the wilds of Derbyshire may still exist from the mid 1970s, when I used to go walking with the Manchester University Hiking Club. (The things some people do for free beer!)

 

 

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Hurrah!!!!

I managed to get a ticket at a cinema that was convenient for me to get to on that day.

I am attending the AGM of Friends of DalesBus (formerly known as ‘the Yorkshire Dales Public Transport User Group’ that day.

I am the silly idiot who volunteered to put together the programme of guided walks that supports the Sunday DalesBuses, and I needed a venue that I could get to conveniently after the meeting.

It took a while before Vue started taking bookings for their Leeds cinemas. I also booked a “VIP” seat and it seemed from the seating plan that there weren’t many seats unbooked.

PS

I also do a blog about the Friends of DalesBus rambles, and if anyone fancies seeing some decent landscape photos of the Yorkshire Dales (interspersed by some tedious text) they can be found here.

BTW I know that some of this is probably outside of the scope of the site, so feel free to edit out anything considered inappropriate.

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Correction on my last post:

“Navication” should read “Navigation” but the web site went down before I could correct my post.

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@Shazzbot

“oh, heck, I’m not going to go there.”

I would just like to point out that Heck is a village in North Yorkshire, south of Selby and sandwiched between the M62 motorway and the Aire and Calder Navigation Canal.  😉

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@timeloop

In these days of multi-screen cinemas, I am not sure if they have usual screening times. I can’t find any mentioned on the Vue Cinema web site.

…….and I am not sure if they will be charging their standard charges for a special event.

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There is still no information on the times of the screenings, so how are we supposed to know if we can attend the showings?

It seems that they are only interested in grabbing our money, and they are not being very efficient at doing that

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I don’t believe it! I actually got it right about the upstairs cyberman not being real.

Re: Fraser Hines

He was born in Horsforth, near Leeds, and going by his given name, may be of Scottish descent.

There are quite a lot of people around Leeds and the Yorkshire coalfields who have Scottish links (including my own (extended) family (by marriage). There is even a City of Leeds Pipeband.
When I was in the Scouts, I was taught how to play a side drum by a member of this band.

His Scottish accent doesn’t seem very different from that of some of the Scots that I know in Leeds, although one of them, who has lived in Leeds for some considerable time, occasionally comes out with phrases in broad Yorkshire!

One of my father’s uncles had a very strong, and possibly false (or stage), Scots accent and used to regularly wear a kilt, sporran and skean-dhu, as did his sons.

Anyway, Jamie would have been a Gaelic speaker from Skye, and, when speaking English, may have had an accent nearer to that of the west coast o9f Ireland. If he had been speaking with a modern Glasgow accent, I reckon that it would be worse than the accent that he used in DW. He is not playing a Ralph C Nesbitt clone! 😀

 

 

 

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@scaryb and others

Re: The Hurt Doctor

Could he be a younger version of the Hartnell Doctor?

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@craig

Does the clock take into account the change to GMT on 27 October?

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I reckon that if this had been an AG episode, the surprise entry of the Cyberman would have been splashed over all the BBC channels in a trailer for about two weeks before.

BTW Apologies to @bluesqueakpip for absent-mindedly repeating info about Jamie.

 

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