[OFB Cafe] Tuesday, Boris the Mayor, and Thomas the Rhymer

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Derek Broughton wrote:

> Last week I finally got around to watching Season 3 of the new Doctor Who 
> (Terence would have to know what that is, but for the rest of you you need to 
> have either been born in the UK as I was, or be terminally geeky - which I 
> suppose also applies).
> 
> In the episode "The Lazarus Experiment", there were at least two Eliot quotes 
> (though I have to admit "not with a bang but a whimper" is slightly 
> overused).

I do have to admit to having seen several episodes of the first series 
(round about the time of Baird's initial experiments, I believe), and 
recall nothing except the initial Doctor whose face I can still see but 
whose name is forgotten (except that if I ever become a Time Lord I 
shall remember). Oh, and the theme tune, which I thought, and still 
think- probably showing that I'm sad- really cool.

That they are now using Eliot quotes gives me hope, and I must try and 
watch the next series. (Cue opening titles and theme tune...)

"Not with a bang" has really entered the language along with 
E=MC(squared), 42, Catch 22 and a few (!) lines from an 
Elizabethan/Jacobean playwright whose name also escapes me.

On the other hand so have words like Sellotape and Hoover, so what price 
literary fame?

Terence