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Post by Ron Weasly on Jun 20, 2009 3:12:41 GMT
hI IM NEW
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Post by Aldebaran on Jun 20, 2009 3:39:37 GMT
Hi! I can see that.  Welcome to Death By Aspirin. Please keep all limbs and organs inside the bus at all times, remain seated with your seatbelts in the "locked" position... and please... no throwing up on the driver. My name is "Aldebaran", named for the star found in the eye socket of the "Taurus" constellation. I just like the name... I have no affiliation with bulls, bovines or cattle whatsoever. My favorite doctor is Four, but my two runners up would have to be Ten and Seven. My companions of choice are Captain Jack Harkness... though people here seem to disagree that he was an actual companion.  Donna Noble, and K9. (Everyone seems to forget about that little tin dog.) I'm a lovable, witty, adventurous, irresponsible and crafty old darling locked up inside the body of a sixteen-year-old. In reality.... I wager I'm pushing 300. This site is great. Simple and to-the-point. I fell out of love with Who for awhile, but I still came back to talk to the people here because they were and remain to be so spectacularly wonderful.  We're a wonderfully dysfunctional family here, which I hope you'll stay and become a part of. That said.... would you like a Jellybaby?  And welcome. |
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Post by IMForeman on Jun 20, 2009 3:57:04 GMT
Hi! Welcome. How did you find this place? Are you a big Doctor Who fan?
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Post by merrythemad on Jun 20, 2009 13:11:14 GMT
Greetings and salutations from the resident clumsy coffee-addict. I;m eventually going to take over the universe and give NASA to Abbyromana, who promises to get us to Mars. No worries though, I shall be an uber-friendly hippie dictator.
Seriously, I'm Merry (but i reckon ye ken that already) and usually not too serious. I'm one of the elder members (I beat JJ but Prim and Magnus beat me) and I've been watching DW since I was wee slip of a girl. My first Doctor was four and as such he holds a special place in my heart, I'm also partial to seven, five and ten, I even like six as nobody else seems to and tis a travesty as he IS still the Doctor.
Aldy is right, the members make this site, we are a fun and friendly bunch and I look forward to getting to hear your fresh opinion. Watch out for Newton though, she supports randomly punching people (j/k Newton's great just be nice to her birds).
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Post by Stripes on Jun 20, 2009 13:45:09 GMT
Ha, someone smited this person and it wasn't me.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jun 20, 2009 17:41:40 GMT
I will find this random smiter and smite them. How's that a way to greet a new person??
Anyway, hiya. I'm Clocket. I like playing with dead things and writing bad fic.
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Post by timeywimeyding on Jun 20, 2009 18:38:38 GMT
Oop... er... sorry theeros. I meant to give karma, but I accidentally clicked 'smite' instead. Talk about clumsy...
Anyway, I've karma'd you now, so that mistake is rectified.
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Post by librarylover on Jun 20, 2009 18:58:38 GMT
Welcome Theeros, nice to meet you. Clocket lied, she writes wonderful fanfic. Otherwise everyone spoke truth, the people here are very fun, and even though we love different Doctors and companions it rarely descends into fistfights. I think I am the elder statesperson of the site, but being in the US I didn't start watching Doctor Who until it was revived. My favorite Doctors are 10, 9 and 4, but I really like all of them. Please consider stopping by Doctor Who Live on Saturday night at 9 pm Eastern US/Canada time. We watch episodes and chat about them. The link is www.livestream.com/DbyA |
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Post by magnusgreel on Jun 21, 2009 6:23:20 GMT
theeros, it's about time you showed up. The Supreme Council claimed you were approaching this point in space-time several months ago, but their predictions have been less than reliable ever since they and all Time Lords were utterly destroyed along with Gallifrey.
I joined an American Dr Who fan organization in the late '80s, but it ate itself alive, and consequently I was thrust out into the world on my own, a DW orphan, until I latched onto another fan group in the city of Milwaukee, and I then bothered them with a number of DW parodies and drawings through the 1990s.
I'm big on Doctor Four, closely followed by Three. Unexpectedly I became a science fiction purist, not sure why, and I hold new Who up to SF standards I never held old Who up to, therefore I'm a hypocrite, and proud of it. I think Leela should have a fandom or two. I'm an obscenely late bloomer who is only just now trying to get good at writing, and drawing.
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Post by Ron Weasly on Jun 21, 2009 20:44:40 GMT
Thanks all you guys an galz yes i'm a dr who fan and its The Eros and ya it's not the supreme councils fault that's me i went to the wrong time zone so sorry
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Post by jjpor on Jun 21, 2009 20:52:58 GMT
Welcome! Sorry for not saying so sooner. I hope you enjoy your time here; this is a great little community with some great people in it (you can see a few of them above!) ;D
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Post by primsong on Jun 23, 2009 15:53:31 GMT
Salutations, Mentor, pleased to make your acquaintance - make yourself at home!
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Post by schrodinger on Jun 24, 2009 5:04:55 GMT
Hello there! I'm aldy's lazy little sister who hasn't logged on for a long time. Pleased to meet you!
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Post by magnusgreel on Jun 25, 2009 6:52:57 GMT
Welcome back schrodinger... and jjpor, regarding new avatar... how'd the Master communicate those presumptuous words to the cosmos, anyway?! I want one of those everybody-everywhere microphones!
I'm a companion, not a Dalek, now..... I like to think that's a step upward.
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Post by jjpor on Jun 25, 2009 20:59:05 GMT
how'd the Master communicate those presumptuous words to the cosmos, anyway?! I want one of those everybody-everywhere microphones! Er...yeah...and Season 18 was trying to inject a bit of hard science fiction into the proceedings too... Presumably he planned to hang around for a few billion years waiting for replies or something, because by the time the whole crisis was resolved, his threat/proposal had maybe just about reached Mars... Still, I think Ainley!Master's doltishness is one of the things that endears him to me. That and the utterly pointless disguises. And the fact that after a while he stopped even bothering to come up with halfway-plausible-sounding evil plots. He was clearly just in it for kicks... |
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Post by magnusgreel on Jun 27, 2009 5:16:37 GMT
Er...yeah...and Season 18 was trying to inject a bit of hard science fiction into the proceedings too... Oh yes, the famous hard science fiction of Christopher Bidmead! I want to find it and appreciate it, but I keep missing it... Maybe Ainley's holding-the-cosmos-hostage speech works (has an impact) only because it's such a surprise, without being led up to with an explanation. It irritates me that it makes no sense, yet it's impressive anyway. The Master pulls out a microphone and talks to the Universe. That certainly expands the scale of the story incredibly (in both senses...), out to infinity almost, in an instant. Well, the story was already that large, but at least for a moment, The Master had it all in the palm of his hand. You have to love him for that in a weird way, I think. |
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Post by jjpor on Jun 28, 2009 0:32:19 GMT
I think maybe it's the fact that the Master is such a power-crazed nutter that he _dares_, even just for a moment, to try such an outrageous plan, even though, as you say, it makes no sense whatsoever. I believe the word is chutzpah, and the fact that the Master has the sheer gall to try something like that, even as the universe collapses around his ears, is, I think, Exhibit A in the arguments that a) he is an utterly irredeemable scumbag, and b) strangely kind of awesome at the same time...
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Post by clocketpatch on Jun 28, 2009 4:32:18 GMT
I always figured his "please attend carefully" was being broadcast on the back of block transfer magic or something. *prods plothole* When it's the Master speaking, it doesn't have to make sense.
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Post by magnusgreel on Jun 28, 2009 5:16:53 GMT
I always figured his "please attend carefully" was being broadcast on the back of block transfer magic or something. *prods plothole* When it's the Master speaking, it doesn't have to make sense. Did she say.... magic?! No... that's just not possible. Phew! Alright, I know that in Logopolis reality is being altered by people muttering numbers or not muttering numbers.... and that's basically magic.... but don't TELL me that!! |
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Post by jjpor on Jun 28, 2009 19:34:05 GMT
The M word???  No, no there must be some mistake, because I have it on good authority from Chris Bidmead and JNT that they were putting the "hardness" back into Who. Clean sweep, new broom, all of that. Sonic screwdriver? Out with that! Tommy B clowning about? Not for much longer! Get thee to E-Space, Romana! And mathematician companions, too, because everybody knows mathematics is riveting...and...and... Er... Yeah, it's magic, isn't it? I think Clocket may be onto something with the explanation for how the Master's message actually carried across the cosmos. Still, you can't help but somewhat admire someone who, having accidentally destroyed a third of the universe or whatever it was through sheer villainous idiocy, and then helped come up with a makeshift solution by the skin of his teeth, still wastes precious seconds trying to turn the situation to his advantage by blackmailing the remaining two-thirds... I mean, that guy never let up with the villainy for a moment; he was a veritable evildoing machine... |
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