Nabble - The Off-Topic

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-05-12T22:06:42Z

Hello SJ friends.

Here in Australia, I saw this funny thing recently.

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/07/05/costa_narrowweb__300x386,0.jpg
Michael Costa is a prominent politician in NSW parliament in Sydney

He's also called "Dr Evil" due to his uncanny resemblance to a certain film villian of recent years.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6022544,00.jpg
Is a cartoon of Costa in the national press here recently.
Can you see the resemblance to the K1 Robot in the '74 story?.
http://lightning70.tripod.com/robot.html

I thought it was quite amusing.
Clearly the cartoonist is a Dr Who supporter eh!.

I'm well and working on a new research paper, which occupies my time.
We need a lot of rain though here especially in Tasmania where I live.
The drought continues even into autumn......

pip pip,
Phil in Sth Croydon... sort of..

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-04-03T22:40:38Z

Hello,
I saw this about Lis of late
http://i17.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/e4/1c/5019_1.JPG
From '97, looks like a good book, and I like the piccy to the right too!.

I've not read it, but has anyone else?.

Also saw these
http://i6.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/d4/cc/cd9e_1.JPG
from filming Death to the Daleks in early '74, something I'm looking forward to seeing on dvd.
http://i5.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/d2/3a/5609_1.JPG
Showing our Lis with a nice smile
http://i10.ebayimg.com/07/i/000/d3/16/4a2a_1.JPG
Showing her art too!.

I also listened to Lis' commentary with others on
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51u777pTD2L._SS500_.jpg
The 5 doctors.
Good show and enjoyable too watch over Easter hols for me.

Thats waht I've been up to.

Phil from Tassie

Re: Off to Russia...

2008-03-14T13:06:12Z

Llin,

Schastlivogo puti!

ot Dashi

Re: Off to Russia...

2008-03-14T01:49:59Z

HEy, another Aussie. Cool!!!

Hope you have a good time in Russia, Llin. If you even get this message while you are there. I just got a Ukranian boy in my class who, of course, speaks Russian. He's finding things tough at the moment but should be fine by the end of the yr. We don't have many foreign kids. 60% Aboriginal, the rest white with one chinese and one filpina. Not much variety, I"m afraid. I"m really looking forward to your stories when you get back. Make sure you fill us in.

Re: Off to Russia...

2008-03-13T21:05:51Z

Good luck with your trip Llin.

I often drop by the site here and have a look about.
I wonder if in Mockba they still have that enclosed space exhibition?.
No heating in winter but of real interest to space historians .
Sadly I heard in the '90's some twits turned it into a car yard etc.....

I'm waiting to see the Five Doctors dvd which should reach my post office here in Australia
any day now and hopefully for Easter.

Best wishes on your trip,
Dsvidanya........ or something like that.

Phil

Off to Russia...

2008-03-13T16:36:37Z

Yes... I'm off to Russia! Very soon! Very early on Saturday morning, in fact!
So while I'm educating Russia's youth about the joys of Doctor Who - and the English language - I hope you guys all have a nice Easter and a nice month generally, and I hope you all keep enjoying the forum while I'm gone.
I'm planning to work on some stuff for the site while I'm out there, so hopefully there'll be a big update when I get back! Which is in mid-April, so not too long really!
Bye, all! See you soon!

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-03-09T04:01:06Z

Wow, it sounds just like my life, minus the telephone booth. The science exam was a total dodlle, I don't get why our school makes the mocks harder than the real thing... ??????

And then there's parents evening... eek! I have failed the last two maths tests and I hjave another one on monday, and parents eivening is on wednesday...

I cannot WAIT to get to A-Levels and drop maths, I am counting the hours!

Oooops... my non-SJ worshipping ,other just came in and told me to revise. Hrrrrrrrm! Okeee dokee, the laws of indecies. This should be thrilling!

Over and peace out, dudes!

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-03-05T19:43:20Z

Hi! Hope that your chem test went well!

Bill and Ted are the main characters from a HILARIOUS 1980's movie called _Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure_. You should watch it when you get the chance; it is sooooo funny! Bill and Ted are Valley Boys from San Dimas (a suburb of Los Angeles) who are in danger of failing their history class. A mysterious figure from the future leads them on a time-traveling adventure so that they can meet famous historical figures and learn enough to pass their test. They travel thru time in a telephone booth...it's kind of like Dr. Who, California style. :)

When my husband was 14 years old one of his friends bet him that he couldn't watch this movie every day for a month. My husband won the bet...and even though he has seen _Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure_ so many times, it is still one of his favorites. So you can tell that it is really a good movie. Oh, and Keanu Reeves, who is always fun to watch, plays Ted.

If you watch the movie, I hope you like it, dude!

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-03-04T07:29:08Z

Llin wrote:

Sarah_Jane_Smith wrote:

That's another thing, I have started referring to everyone as dude, regardless of if they are female.

Haha, I do that, I sound like Bill and Ted...

... who?

eek its three oclok already I got an exam to revise for in science eek oh well I alredy know most of it I just gotta memorise some chemistry. I wonder if the doctor would take the exam for me...

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-02-28T15:24:03Z

Sarah_Jane_Smith wrote:

That's another thing, I have started referring to everyone as dude, regardless of if they are female.

Haha, I do that, I sound like Bill and Ted...
Aw, and don't worry too much about the stress and coursework, you will get through it! Good luck!

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-02-26T19:04:13Z

That sounds like a really great experience, volunteering in an orphanage. I'm sure that the kids will be happy to see you again. And yes, definitely turn as many Russians as you can on to SJA!!!

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-02-16T13:37:55Z

After reading for several hours I have cometo the inevitable conclusion: I am the youngest (or one of)

person on this borad. My life seems significantly dull by comparioson. Its bassically puberty, GCSE's (or

high school for anyone in america, and GCSE's are what you do at sixteen, only I'll be taking mine at

fifteen beacuse I am young for my year, except for Drama which I had to do out of school because I

didn't have any spaces left) and SJ in my spare time. So I'm juggling twelve GCSE's and a falling

(more like fallen) apart family which leaves me to clean up the mess. But I am really not cpomplaining, my

mum is working super hard, and she is doing a super duper job. All I can see for the next four months is

stress and coursework. But I'll get over it. My life is just mates hanging out in parks, paperclips in an all

girls grammar school and mooiching at home. I have no job to do,and no kids to look after (unless you

coun't my dad, when he visits he's childish enough for a baby sometimes). But I am happy for Llin about

her results, rock on dude. That's another thing, I have started referring to everyone as dude, regardless

of if they are female.

Over and out dudes!

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-02-13T04:04:13Z

Ooh, good luck with all that stuff, everybody!
Dasha, I'm going back to the foster community where I taught English last year - I really miss them! Plus, I need to carry on indoctrinating them - I'll be armed with more episodes of SJA!

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-02-12T18:36:29Z

Same old same-old, really. Work, sleep. Dance class is picking up, as we're starting to train for a professional performance in late April. We're dancing back-up during the Michael Jackson "Thriller" number, I's gonna be a zombie XDDD So we have to reeeeeally tighten up our execution.

Been watching Torchwood and kvetching about how it's not as good as Sarah Jane Adventures *LOL* Well it isn't, it just isn't as tight or as well thought out. The characters still seem one-dimensional (although I notice they're *trying* to do something with Toshiko) and Captain Jack still gives the impression of trying to herd cats. They're supposed to be a crack team of alien experts, well I think the crack team is over there on Bannerman Road :-P They *still* can't seem to save anybody. It speaks volumes when an old woman and a couple of high school kids are more effective, a better team, and save more lives (including alien ones) than this group of supposed experts :-P And they dress better too. Dressing all in black isn't "naff" or intimidating, guys, it just says "I have no idea what to wear" XD

I think the most telling point is that Dead Ringers zinged Torchwood several times, but hasn't touched Sarah Jane Adventures ^_~ But enough of my kvetching! (I do like Torchwood; I like to hate it. I watch it so I can hate it in detail and be very certain of exactly what I hate about it ^_^ )

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-02-09T23:19:30Z

Last year I worked part time...3 days a week for the first time in 20 yrs. This yr I'm back full time as a classroom teacher and although I have only 19 kids and they are lovely and I'm so enjoying being back on class doing fun things with the kids, I am finding the workload to be unbearable. Being a disadvantaged school, we have alot of special programmes and initiatives which put alot more work onto us regular teachers. The job alone is more than enough to take up most of our school and home time but with this other stuff, which I don't think really helps at all, I am totally exhausted and have been working 18 hour days, 7 days a week and school only started back a week and a half ago. I"m currently updating my details to put a transfer in to a school that doesn't have all this extra stuff to deal with. I've put alot of time and effort into the job over the yrs and now I've decided that I deserve a life of my own. I had that last yr and i"m so pleased that I had that part time yr to really be a decent mother and wife and also enjoy myself as well. So.....here's to the new year....that I survive it and here's hoping my transfer will be approved and I can move on to greener pastures and a more fullfilling and healthy life.

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-02-09T19:01:32Z

Ooh, you lucky ducky--going to Russia again! Where are you going this time?

Good luck with all the coursework. I remember those uni days...and I'm glad they're over!

Re: What's everyone up to lately?

2008-02-08T11:51:57Z

It's mostly uni work, and I need to resubmit an essay on Hinduism because I failed. Although this was the essay I wrote the morning I gave it in, so to be honest, I'm not that worried.
Other than that, not a lot is planned for me right now. How dull.

_{MAKE TEA. NOT WAR}

What's everyone up to lately?

2008-02-08T11:20:15Z

I've just finished my exams, got my results for last semester and I did ok, hooray!
So now I've got a presentation on Doctor Zhivago to do, War and Peace to read, a bunch of translation coursework and some poems to get to grips with. Plus I'm going back to Russia for a month over Easter, so I'm up to my eyeballs in organising that.
Also, I'm making preliminary preparations for moving to London in the summer.
So, busy busy busy!
What's everyone else up to at the moment?

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said

Re: Advent Calendar Feedback!

2008-01-20T15:12:58Z

Aww, thanks guys, glad you all enjoyed it!

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said

Re: Introduce Yourself!

2008-01-20T15:12:04Z

Hello and welcome! Hope you have fun here!
That's a good point about the shoes, I never thought of that! Both of her Doctors really were ridiculously tall...
It's fair enough that she doesn't want to bother with all that now, but I still think a nice pair of heels now and then wouldn't go amiss... :P

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said

Re: Introduce Yourself!

2008-01-18T18:57:56Z

Dia dhuibh. I'm Katzedecimal, longtime Whovian from back in the 70s. The first serial I saw was Revenge of the Cybermen, which not coincidentally featured the lovely and spunky Sarah Jane Smith (also the immortal line "Harry Sullivan is an imbecile!") I've been a Sarah Jane (and Doctor Who) fan ever since. I wept with joy when I saw School Reunion and was thrilled by the recent Sarah Jane Adventures. I was very pleased with how the character of Sarah was handled and matured.

Incidently, one of the reasons for the ridiculously impractical shoes in the 70s was that Lis Sladen is very small, around 5'3" IIRC. Since Tom Baker is 6'4", the cameramen often had trouble getting them into the shots properly, so Lis was put up on boxes or into ludicrously high heels. When she was offered The Sarah Jane Adventures, one of Lis's conditions was apparently "No stilts." Hence the lovely practical flat boots we know and love ^__^

Re: Advent Calendar Feedback!

2008-01-18T03:47:54Z

Me and the kids loved it!!! Cant remember the exact day but it was the quiz with lots of picture of the back Of Sarah Janes head that had us in hysterics (think she was in mortal danger in each) oh and we loved the quiz about the footwear. It was a great idea, thanks

Re: Introduce Yourself!

2008-01-17T20:46:04Z

Thank you Llin for your welcome,

I've been reading your and your colleagues work on this site for nearly a year now.
Good work!.

Here in Australia, we've not seen the SJA here, but perhaps our ABC will air it later this year- we hope.
They usually put Dr Who on and the ABC (your BBC equivalent) does a fair job airing British shows here. (the commerical stations mainly air cheap yank imports, which don't last long here).
I've heard that Revenge of the Cybermen may be a goer, as the DVD people who churn out the discs have said they like to fill in gaps in series, so 'Revenge' seems to be a likely candidate.
Also I hear a DVD commentary for Planet of the Spiders has been done, but I have no special knowledge of such matters, but Lis Sladen did late last year make a comment on how under-rated "Death to the Daleks " was as a story.
Was she hinting at all?.............. hmmmm.

Thanks again for a informative site you have here, good for a Sarah Jane supporter like me!.
see you in Wessex castle,
Phil

Re: Introduce Yourself!

2008-01-17T15:14:16Z

Hi Phil, welcome to the forum!
Yeah, I think they're really pushing the classic DVDs with Sarah in now that she's got her own show. I think it's a great way of getting kids into the old show. Not sure what's coming out this year but I'm sure there's something!

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said

Re: Introduce Yourself!

2008-01-16T20:34:20Z

Greetings,
I've been popping by this site for about a year now (on and off), looking up aspects of Dr Who and Sarah Jane.
I'm from Australia and part of my interest is in filling in gaps such a stories I've not properly seen since these stories were aired here in the '70's and '80's.
Here the ABC used to air Dr who every weeknight late in the afteroon and it was only much later that I learn't that the show was actually aired by the BBC every week, during a series.
(one doesn't realise that as a child).
So it was always a struggle to get home from school, get endless jobs done and find time to
sit down and watch the show, hence there are gaps in the stories I've seen.
Recent years have seen me seek out these video's and DVD's and sites like this help too in shedding detailson Dr who and Sarah Jane.
Good to see a forum about the place now.
I'm keen to learn of upcoming DVD's with Sarah Jane and I've heard a few possibilities mentioned for this year.
Apart from that, I write about Mt Everest history and climb, enjoy cricket and '70's British shows ranging from comedies, science fiction and more drama .
Good to see the site here flourish.
your friend, Phil

Re: Joseph Millson in Cinderella

2008-01-15T02:22:08Z

I am indeed a lady ;) Well female anyway...I will have seen it 4 times in all. A couple of trips were birthday presents. But there was no way I could see it only once. I saw Much Ado 3 times. I hope he gets to do more comic stuff in SJA, but he didnt mention SJA when he told me what he was up to next.
Thanks for leaving the comments on the guestbook. He does visit the site and am sure appreciates such lovely feedback. Although I did wonder if he minded Dandini's (Oliver Chopping) guestbook entry ;)

Re: Joseph Millson in Cinderella

2008-01-15T02:15:29Z

kls010 wrote:

It is a shame you missed him in Much Ado About Nothing last year. He is the funniest actor I have ever seen on stage. And I get to see Cinderella one more time too before it finishes! Wonder if he will be braver with his little pirouette in his bathrobe...

J-Mil website lady! Hi! (At least, I've been assuming you're a lady, if not I apologise!)
He is really hilarious, I hope he gets to do more comic stuff in SJA. A friend of mine saw him in Much Ado and loved it, so jealous...
Can't believe you're getting to see it one last time, lucky you! How many times have you been? I still can't get over how wonderful he was...

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said

Re: Joseph Millson in Cinderella

2008-01-15T02:10:22Z

sarah_janesmith wrote:

His underwear???? what kind of Panto was this!!!

The best kind!
No, lol, it was sort of a grown-up panto, it was awesome, Buttons and Dandini got together at the end!

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said

S'mores

2008-01-14T20:27:29Z

Well, I've never heard the term shmores, but s'mores are what Llin described. You melt a marshmallow over a bonfire, then you sandwich the marshmallow, along with a few segments of a Hershey chocolate bar, between two graham crackers. I used to love them when I was a kid (before I went vegetarian), and now my child loves them.

Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

2008-01-14T17:58:52Z

Apparenlty S2 of SJA has now been confirmed, according to the info in my Dr Who club newsletter. Also Sontarans are meant to be in the new DW eps but if they look like the one in the picture on the newsletter I will be sorely disappointed. I put a ring over the picture and viewed just his facial features through the ring and they are almost normal human features. I always thought LYnx was the best looking Sontaran. Very real looking and alien looking and ugly. Styre was very disappointing to look at. Too many makeup flaws. Lynx' makeup was flawless. But these new guys have nomral ears and normal, albeit dome-shaped, head and the one in the pic has top teeth. Nah!!! Not good enough.

Re: Joseph Millson in Cinderella

2008-01-14T15:33:25Z

It is a shame you missed him in Much Ado About Nothing last year. He is the funniest actor I have ever seen on stage. And I get to see Cinderella one more time too before it finishes! Wonder if he will be braver with his little pirouette in his bathrobe...

Re: Joseph Millson in Cinderella

2008-01-13T16:07:00Z

His underwear???? what kind of Panto was this!!!

Re: Joseph Millson in Cinderella

2008-01-12T16:23:24Z

Just to update everyone:

Joseph Millson is the most fabulous person ever to appear in a pantomime ever ever EVER!
He was really stunningly awesome. His singing voice is divine. His acting is luscious - I really hope he gets to do more comic stuff in Series Two of SJA, because he can totally pull it off - and of course it helped that he stripped to his underpants and then danced and sang in a little bathrobe...
*sigh*
Yes. I'm very happy about it.

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said

Re: HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

2008-01-12T16:16:33Z

Dr. Dasha wrote:

He claims that there will be some flashback episodes showing more about the 8th doctor. He also claims there will be a 4-Doctors episode with Doctors 7, 8, 9, and 10 joining forces for an adventure.

Ooooohhh....
I'm reluctant to get my hopes up too much, but I would love to see Paul McGann as the Doctor again. His audios are lovely, it's criminal that he didn't get to play the Doctor longer onscreen.
And multi-doctor episodes are always fun.

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said

Re: Language differentials

2008-01-12T16:08:15Z

Sarah_Jane_Smith wrote:

Also: What the hell are shmores? 'cause I was reading a book calle Maximum Ride and the kid mentions shmores but I don't know what they are apart from the fact they involve chocolate, so I am interested.

Aren't they those things that you make at a bonfire where you have two digestive biscuits (except I don't think they're called that in America) and you melt a marshmallow and chocolatey stuff between them and it's like a sweet marshmallow sandwich thing?

'Life is the most wonderful fairy tale of all!' - Hans Christian Andersen, from What The Whole Family Said