I haven’t been active for a number of years, but I’ve occasionally lurked, and am grateful to you all for keeping this site so informative and congenital.

I logged in specifically to thank @Mudlark for that wonderfully informative post. I enjoyed the episode a lot, but was toraĺly mystified by the Barber’s motivations and actions. Part of…[Read more]

@whist, so sorry to hear the double whammy of your friend’s passing and your employment situation.…[Read more]

Been away from the forum for some months for reasons. Not because of you all, but because of stuff IRL and the recent dystopian exercise we went through in the states. And I won’t be back again for a few days to avoid spoilers, since I’m in a media-free home…[Read more]

Been Away From the Keyboard, as they say, for a bit. Lots of local, local politics going on in a community group, plus a lovely musical retreat last weekend.

How are you holding up? The Southern California winter weather is rapidly becoming more and more like an Australian summer — neither of which are particularly great…[Read more]

… loving the “Frosty the Snowman doing a wild fandango on the Seventh Gate of Hell” image.

Sure beats the image of Donald Trump behind the desk in the Oval Office…

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Sending love and TLC your way. I’m grateful you’re so close to good medical facilities, but ICUs are hard for the patient and their family.

Happy Australia Day. Have you ever considered swapping out the lamb for haggis in honor of Robert Burns’ birthday, complete with bagpipers, toasts, and recitation of Burns’ famous ode to a…[Read more]

From what little I know of Puro mere and Puro fils, it’d probably be best if Puro fils saw it in a couple of years. There are a number of deadly sins on display in the scene with partial nudity, and … SPOILERS OMITTED… I think the moral implications are somewhat more troubling than the amount of skin exposed…[Read more]

You’ve probably already seen The Big Short by now, but I quite enjoyed it. Are you sure the Washington Post review said it was fatuous? Not fabulous??? Perhaps the reviewer assumed her paper’s readers were more familiar with the complicated financial shenanigans and near total collapse of the world financial system than average…[Read more]

Son of Puro, I am so embarrassed. I was not up on all the Australian slang. I NEVER would have used that word to describe Puro’s vanishing had I know or realized its slang context. My sincere apologies to anyone I might have inadvertently offended. Let me make amends by picking up the tab for…[Read more]

Back at you, @Puro!

I’ve been lurking on the episode threads, but haven’t had anything to add to the discussion there (and have been distracted by IRL). I logged on a while back to give @purofilion gentle hugs and TLC when she first posted about the effect medication was having on her, but that was about the time she *poofed*…[Read more]

My Pocket app feed today included a searing and fearless *beautifully* written personal essay about having Chron’s disease. Not the sort of thing you’d usually read or discuss in the conviviality of TGIF at the pub, but reading it has given me so much empathy for @Puroandson‘s journey. Here’s the link, for those…[Read more]

Delighted that you’re posting here.

In fact, you may be our fist hybrid member. That’s certainly in keeping with one of the themes of season 10.
Way to go! I haven’t seen much LOL’ing or OMG’ing hereabouts, but you’ll see a fair number of expressive faces interspersed among the verbiage.

Happy almost birthday, ilion!

Give your Mom…[Read more]

I was absolutely gutted when I read your post. I have no words to express what I’m feeling. I can’t imagine what you’re going through right now. My heart is sorrowful and worried about the year and years to come.

My heart is breaking for your son. No child should lose his mother that young.

My heart is breaking…[Read more]

TY, your fishiness.  I definitely will check out @PhaseShift‘s blog when I have a mo or ten.  Want the time to give it justice.  Have a friend coming over for dinner in less than an hour and no Tardis to cook the turkey in!  Gotta get crackin’

By the bye, has there been anything substantive posted on here about Quartermass?  I’ve…[Read more]

Seconding, thirding, fourthing, nthing your post #23848

You’ve succinctly stated what I’ve always thought about River Song: Her adventures and travels with the Doctor were not limited to the time he was Eleven (Smith) or Ten (Tennant). When we first meet her in tSitL, she clearly states she’s seen his faces and has never seen…[Read more]

:::hangs St. Johns Ambulance sign in shame:::

Bet there are still more typos…[Read more]

Waves “hi” and offers a New Years party favor to other recent arrivals.  Sorry if I haven’t r…[Read more]

:::sending you virtual chicken soup and a stalk of celery.  Wonderful veg.  I hear it’s quite useful as a restorative:::

Hope you’re back to your imperial self in no time.

TardisBlue

couldn’t have you really bugged about David McCallum now … 1960’s international heartthrob (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) and the best bow tie wearing and opera loving forensic examiner currently on screen in the states (NCIS).

So I took quick look-sees at reviews of some likely-looking listings on his long list of credits. No slam…[Read more]

Thank you!!!

I was reading, and watching, the links in the holiday portion of the TV thread, and wondering whether It’s A Wonderful Life had made it across the pond.  Your blog comparing […]

Hello, one and all.

Happy New Year!

And Happy Birthday, dear wonderful forum!

And jelly babies, celery, and Jammie Dodgers all around for reaching, nay, *exceeding* the 1000 member mark.

Should be some sort of prize for our emperor @Craig — another regeneration…[Read more]

thanks! That was the one I wanted to share.

@purofilion,

So glad you liked it. Isn’t the call and response with the gospel choir toward the end so wonderfully full of energy? Such a great winter solstice song – at least here in the northern hemisphere.

I hadn’t even considered its applicability to next week’s Doctor Who Christmas…[Read more]

Your Christmas dinner sounds delish. I’d be happy to be a guest at your table any Xmas.

When you talked about Czech dumplings, did you mean kolaches? I’ve never heard of fruit dumplings with quark. Sounds good, though.

(Quark is a soft, spreadable German cheese.)

The pub’s getting more…[Read more]

no anti-immigrant feelings here.  Au contraire, ma amie,

Late in his life, my father wanted the two of us to learn Czech, though that never happened.   He was born in a small town in the middle of nowhere in Texas, where Tex-Czech cuisine was nearly as common as Tex-Mex.  Don’t believe Tex-Czech cuisine exists?  Trust “All the News…[Read more]

insert/edit link aka alt shift a doesn’t seem to be working for me.  :'(   I’m gonna ask Santa for a teenager with computer skills for Christmas!

TB

trying again … old dog new tricks and all that

loving the music!

@Whisht, two delighted thumbs up for Vince and Charlie Brown.

@ScaryB, @Whisht, @MartyB, seconding, thirding, and fourthing Van Morrison. and The Band. and a belated happy birthday to Keith.

and yes, @Arbutus, I have heard of Straight, No Chaser. I’ve even heard them, though not in concert.

Since your linked song…[Read more]

Not that much going on there, truth be told. Some bonkers theorizing. Links to interviews with Moffat and Smith. Lots of pictures from trailers and speculation about what they mean. A plea from me for the use of proper grammar, spelling, punctuation and capitalization in posts, along with fewer random,…[Read more]

@FatManInABox and @PhaseShift,
Any sign of 10 Time Lords a leaping during your cleaning and shopping? My true love promised them to me, but I’m worried they’re time locked.

TardisBlue

our posts must have crossed in cyberspace. My post immediately above was in response to your first post re: Clara, Daleks, etc. Your second post was easier for me to understand. Call me an old fuddy-duddy if you want, but I do prefer proper grammar, spelling, capitalization and punctuation.

I haven’t seen that bit with…[Read more]

Sorry. Not following your post/train of thought.

It’s easier for me to follow posts which aren’t so stream of consciousness sounding.

erm … um … uh

well, I suppose, there *is* that.

Good thing that Clara’s there on Trenzalore. The Impossible Girl. The girl who was born to save the Doctor. The girl who has grown from being unable to open the Tardis door in tRoA to being the girl who opens the Tardis door with a snap of her fingers. The girl who convinced…[Read more]

on the topic of simple solutions to the regeneration limit problem:

ever since the first poster for this episode was released, I’ve been wondering whether — and occasionally hoping that — the Weeping Angel will grab a hold of the Smith Doctor and take him back 1000 years, plus or minus. Being sent back in time…[Read more]

<<dancing happy jig>>

I *am* glad to see you’re back.

I’ve had a bit of a cold. So, while I haven’t been active here, I’ve had some time to think and worry whether you’d decided to leave or go back to lurking.

I’m glad that you’re back, and that the forum’s had a bit more discussion about communication and its impact on our shared…[Read more]

a belated happy birthday! I’ve been a bit under the weather, so I missed your actual 46th. Sorry.

:::bowing down in respect for our newest Time Lord:::

Gee, the UK must have a *serious* game of Risk. I’m a bit vague on the rules, but I don’t remember anything about becoming a Time Lord when you win on your birthday.…[Read more]

you have me beat on at least one thing:

I’m out of milk. Got any I can borrow?

:::waves hi at @TheFerret and @MartyB and @Ferrocene and @tennantmarsters2013 and @Devilishrobby and @all others who’ve joined recently:::

@Ferrocene, @tennantmarsters2013, @Devilishrobby and @others without avatars. I hope you won’t mind just a bit of…[Read more]

Your post triggered a regeneration in my kitchen.

My humble French Press was hit with a blinding flash of golden light.

It’s now is a far more elegant “cafetiere.”

The Melita pour over plastic filter holder, still mourning the loss of its beloved glass carafe due to an unfortunate stove top accident, is jealous.

The teapots, cups,…[Read more]

The scene between the two of them was, I believe, wasn’t intended to definitively establish who Baker was playing — curator, himself/fourth doctor in retirement, a aspect of the doctor from hi…[Read more]

*Way* past my bedtime, so just popping by this blog to give you big props for your Big Finish intro.  I was touched by McGann/Eight in the prequel, so getting folk’s input about the audio […]

@Arbutus, wow.  I agree with @purofilion.  A splendid first post.  Please don’t wait a year until your next one!

@TheMasterOfAllHeSurveys, you’re a Third Doctor fan?  Or a UNIT fan?  Or just a fan of the working class?  (If I can gently kid you with the last…[Read more]

welcome

@Bluesqueakpip beat me to the punch in responding to your question.

Time travel would tend to make you laugh at times at how silly and off-base people’s theories and predictions can be, I think.

What archeologist *wouldn’t* rather travel back in time to see how a society *really* lived rather than…[Read more]

Anyone seen David Tennant as Richard II during the Royal Shakespeare Company run at Stratford-on-Avon?  Any thoughts, impressions, critiques, general fan-squee-iness, interesting stories?  Anyone planning to see it when it starts at London’s Barbicon December 7?

And is anyone planning to s…[Read more]

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