All entries for October 2007

October 17, 2007

Mozart's Missing Notes

Writing about web page http://www.chris-lamb.co.uk/2007/10/17/missing-notes-in-the-mozarts-%c2%abdissonance%c2%bb-quartet-k-465/


October 15, 2007

Sleepless Doctor Who Trivia

I’m currently lying in bed, sleepless. So, what better to while away the time than with a largely irrelevant piece of Doctor Who trivia.

In Episode 11 of Season 2, ‘Fear Her’, a scribble that is created by ‘Her’ (her first creation IIRC). The Doctor claims that this:

breaks the ice at parties

This is, of course, the immortal line from Eric Idle’s Monty Python sketch.

Now this is not entirely irrelevant, as this line was what made me fall in love with the new series (although I haven’t seen the old series). I’ll leave you with another Monty Python quote, which is a reasonable description of how I felt watching this episode:

It really makes you want to shout out, this is good! This is real!


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