What words would you like to see added to/removed from common use?"I hate you," are the first words Lucie informs him of in the morning, walking into the console room with arms folded and head up high, with every implication of 'you ain't touching this today, mate.' "And I don't want to hear about how that's awful because it's 'such a strong word ( Read more... )

"Doctor, I hope you don't mind me noting... you've been a little irritable lately."

"I can't help it. Politicians make me irritable."

"... This is Gallifrey, Doctor. And you're standing in the middle of the High Council."

"I would think that's rather my point."

( All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. ~Albert Einstein )

If you could be in the Olympics (summer or winter), what event/sport would you want to do most? Why?

"The 92/apple/gamma/24 Olympics!" the Doctor gushed with ebullient flourish, throwing open the doors of the TARDIS in the grand way that put trumpets on a red carpet to shame.

( It hadn't exactly been a question of 'why' as such, or even 'want'. )

Discuss an individual who has scared you.

"You shouldn’t have done that."

( Hell is other people, especially when they're you. )

Surprise! Your mother/a priest/an arch nemesis/the tax man/dinosaurs/your ex/a famous talk show host is at the door -- and at a most inopportune moment! Now what?!What had inclined Father Stephens to knock his aged knuckles on the blue doors of the incredibly blue police box in the middle of the road that day was something he would never be able to ( Read more... )

Is there a situation where it's appropriate to be unkind?On the fifth of October in the year 1930, a British airship crashed in France during its maiden overseas voyage to Karachi, called the R-101. A ruptured gas bag in the early hours of the morning caused the nose of the ship to drop and then a collision with a hill at 13 mph ignited the leaking ( Read more... )

"Doctor, do you ever change your clothes ( Read more... )

In a secluded corner on 19th century Earth, a vworping and a sort of muffled bang heralded the TARDIS' grand and hardly noticed arrival onto the scene of a crowded London street, complete with cobblestone roads and the smell of horses as carriages rushed by, with drivers yelling at people to get out of the way as they passed in a flurry of hooves ( Read more... )

There is a note pinned to a door that emanates fury and annoyance in the best way a door can- by standing there and defiantly staring at all who pass by it with a steely, wooden, and mostly non-existent glare, and by being completely, utterly, resolutely, comprehensibly... closed ( Read more... )