Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel70 Newsgroups: rec.arts.drwho Subject: Re: From the Archives ..... Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 21:12:54 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:12:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f0b500f625108fc005c1efc206f0bb58"; logging-data="1620224"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/pi2Kf3GZj1XovC6idi+tbR0W1oKm74GY=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.53.18.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:RWC5OaHizSyoHpa8qvU9tWazfC8= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3083 The Doctor wrote on 25/6/24 12:15 am: > In article , Daniel70 > wrote: >> Today I'm re-re-rewatching "Tooth and Claw", the Second 'normal' >> DoctorDavid episode and, after the opening credits ...... >> >> http://www.chakoteya.net/DoctorWho/28-2.htm >> >> Quote TARDIS (Rose has changed into denim mini-dungarees). ROSE: >> What do you think of this? Will it do? DOCTOR: In the late 1970s? >> You'd be better off in a bin bag. Hold on, listen to this. (The >> Doctor puts a CD into the Tardis player.) DOCTOR: Ian Dury and the >> Blockheads. Number One in 1979. ROSE: You're a punk. DOCTOR: It's >> good to be a lunatic. ROSE: That's what you are. A big old punk >> with a bit of rockabillly thrown in. DOCTOR: Would you like to see >> him? ROSE: How'd you mean? In concert? DOCTOR: What else is a >> Tardis for? I can take you to the Battle of Trafalgar, the first >> anti-gravity Olympics, Caesar crossing the Rubicon or Ian Dury at >> the Top Rank, Sheffield, England, Earth, 21st November, 1979. What >> do you think? ROSE: Sheffield it is. DOCTOR: Hold on tight. (The >> Doctor beats the rhythm of the song on the console as they >> travel.) ROSE: Stop! (They stop suddenly, and get thrown to the >> floor.) DOCTOR: 1979. Hell of a year. China invades Vietnam. The >> Muppet Movie. Love that film. Margaret Thatcher. Urgh. Skylab falls >> to Earth, with a little help from me. Nearly took off my thumb. End >> Quote >> >> O.K., so this episode was made in about 2006'ish .... and, in that >> last line, DoctorDavid states that China invaded Vietnam in 1979!! >> >> Did I miss that in RL?? Or does this happen in an alternate Time >> Line or on an alternate Earth?? > > I think that is correct. Hang on, Gobble-de-gook, do you mean to suggest that AT THE TIME OF THIS RESPONCE, YOU, Gobble-de-gook, had also forgotten about the Chinese invasion of Vietnam as pointed out by Blueshirt?? > BTW the ending sucked! -- Daniel