Tea? (Part 1)

[TheDoctor]

*picks Dalek up, reassures it and tells Dalek that Arch didn't mean to upset it. Offers plasters, germolene, oxyacetylene welding gear as required*

Arch, that's very bad. The poor Dalek wasn't doing you any harm.

*giggles at thought of dalek helpless on floor*

Can't they levitate these days?

 

[Arch]

*picks Dalek up, reassures it and tells Dalek that Arch didn't mean to upset it. Offers plasters, germolene, oxyacetylene welding gear as required*

Arch, that's very bad. The poor Dalek wasn't doing you any harm.

*giggles at thought of dalek helpless on floor*

Can't they levitate these days?

Yes they can, but I reckon once it was on its back, it's gyroscope would be all out of kilter and it would get confused. Bung a tea-cosy or hat over it's eyestalk and you've got it good and proper.

I read once that the camera interferred with the frequency they used to radio control K9, so he would sometimes shoot off unexpectedly and crash into the set.

I was at an archaeology conference once in Cambridge, and there was some science festival going on at the same time, and they had a full size Dalek (armed with water pistol) trundling about. At break time we were all in this ground floor room with picture windows when it came by, and all the learned discussion and networking stopped and everyone dashed out to see it!

 

[TheDoctor]

I was at the Open University head office in Milton Keynes a few years ago, and a group of techy types walked past carrying K9! *geeky happiness*

 

[tdr1nka]

funny how we never saw K9 in Robot Wars?

 

[TheDoctor]

*imagines Clarkson / Lister enthusing as K9 deploys laser cannon*

Funny how The Doctor never uses weapons, and K9 had a miniature armoury built in. K9 would have been great in Robot Wars.
But not as good as a Dalek.

 

[tdr1nka]

*was imagining Phillipa Forester*

If you look at the Genesis of the Dalek, they have evolved quite spectacularly since the early 60's(the two films with Peter Cushing as the Doctor)when one could disable a Dalek by leaving your coat on the floor and the Dalek arms or appendages were a rudimentary claw and a tube with which to fire poisonous gas out of.

Damn my wasted sci-fi youth!

More tea?

 

[tdr1nka]

A friend's brother constructed this out of things in the garden to try to explain Daleks to his kids. This was before the recent Dr. Who resurgence BTW.

 

[TheDoctor]

*actually literally LOLs*

That is excellent. If I was a bunch of those heading towards me I'd be scared.

 

[Arch]

*actually literally LOLs*

That is excellent. If I was a bunch of those heading towards me I'd be scared.

Me also with the actual LOL!

Brilliant!

 

[Arch]

That needs to go on Have I got News for You, with the caption "Budget cuts hit BBC special effects department"

Mind you, those swingball raquets are dangerous. I nearly broke my sisters toe with one by accident (it turned out to just be badly bruised, not broken).

 

[TheDoctor]

That needs to go on Have I got News for You, with the caption "Budget cuts hit BBC special effects department"

Mind you, those swingball raquets are dangerous. I nearly broke my sisters toe with one by accident (it turned out to just be badly bruised, not broken).

An accident that you hit her, or an accident you didn't actually break her toe?

 

[LordoftheTeapot]

 

[TheDoctor]

*accepts tea*

*passes round slices of battenburg to those who want*

 

[LordoftheTeapot]

* Takes a slice of battenburg with thanks to The Doctor *

 

[Landslide]

*accepts tea*

*passes round slices of battenburg to those who want*

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