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From: Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org>
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2024 21:12:54 +1000
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The Doctor wrote on 25/6/24 12:15 am:
> In article <v5bsbe$usvg$1@dont-email.me>, Daniel70
> <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> 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