PHOTO PROMPT © Roger Bultot
THE GRASS IS GREENER
Oy, just back it up half a mo. That there grass was green and mowed when I climbed in this thing an’ you did the flashin’ lights and sound-effects thingy. And where in the bloody ‘ell did them skyscrapers come frum. They wasn’t in mah bleedin’ front yard when I came outta the house a few minutes ago.
Where are we?
Wha’, “When??” Right now!
“When are we??” Like we moved in time, like?
We did? How’dya know?
“The lights and sounds did it, and you made ‘em?”
How could you do that??!
“Cuz yer thuh doctor?!”
DOCTOR WHO?!
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Go to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story.
Archon's Den 
Dear Archon,
I suppose this would be clearer to me if I actually watched Dr. Who. 😉 Fun dialect.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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As long as you know that Dr. Who exists. It’s an acquired taste – like gefilte fish. 😉 😆
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My nieces keep bugging me to watch Dr. Who. Guess I’ll have to put it on my to-watch list!!
This was a fun read.
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It’s like green olives. You might like it. You might not. You’ll have to make a decision. Of course, I’m old and grumpy enough to feel that the earlier versions were better than some of the more recent ones. 😳
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I would probably agree…I ain’t no spring chicken neither!
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Never would have pegged you as a Whovian.
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That’s an odd thought. I devour all sci-fi (with the exception of the Battlestar Galactica reboot). We ran into Dr. Who just before John Pertwee morphed into Tom Baker. Used to watch it
(ir)religiously.
When we switched to satellite dish 15 years ago, the only station we get that carries it, is a PBS-type from British Columbia. The only time they seem to run it is when they’re having a ‘send-donations drive’, and you have to watch or record a whole season in a week. 😀
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Archon, you need either Netflix, a Chromecast device, or both.
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We’ve talked about it. We have a Blu-Ray player which speaks Netflix, if we signed up. Perhaps first we need to redecorate. When we moved in, the TV/DVD-R/ Blu-Ray went in the nicely finished basement. I can still climb the stairs, but the wife gets weaker/stiffer.
We have every episode of every show we like, recorded on DVDs – and we haven’t watched one of this season’s broadcasts. I hear that Blindspot has been renewed for next year, and all I know about it is what I’ve seen in trailers. 😯
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Yay, more Dr Who! He’s getting quite an outing this week. I liked the chap’s dialect.
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Many of Dr. Who’s companions have been female, from around London, intelligent, quick on the uptake, and even Billie Piper’s ‘Rose Tyler’ council-house character was clear-spoken, and easy to understand.
I just felt it would be amusing to inflict him with a mud-mouthed Lancashire clod, so dim he couldn’t find the mill if the bus route changed.
Even after years of watching the likes of ‘Dalziel and Pascoe’, I’m not sure I got the dialect right – especially in print. It’s close enough that I can declaim my least favourite quote; “Well, you know what I mean.” 😉
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Makes a nice change! I’ve been thinking back, and even the “aliens” he’s travelled with, like Nyssa and Adric, had the poshest of accents (Scottish Jamie and American Peri aside) 🙂
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Och, noo doona be harsh to mah Scottish forebears. 😉 😆
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Oh I do so love Dr Who … and what an adventure it would be to walk out of a police-phone box and find my surrounding so different. Lovely write!
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It takes a strong mind to deal with such a large, sudden change. My character doesn’t have it. Some of the things that the TARDIS door has opened onto have been quite startling, even frightening. Many others though….”Please sir, could I have some more?” 😕
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My daughter (at 24) is still a great Dr Who fan. There are actually some really sad time travel moments in his adventures. You definitely captured the returning in a mo but everything has changed aspect.
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It’s like children’s cartoons – aimed at the young, but with some very adult themes lurking in the background. My character is so dim, he’s surprised when traffic lights turn from red to green. Glad you liked it. 🙂
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I don’t watch Dr Who but I am familiar with The Tardis Well done! 🙂
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As long as you get the reference, my job here is done. Woo-Hoo, nap time. Thanx. 🙂
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Dr. Who??
Actually I know the program, just never watched it. Most of my students follow the show religiously.
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It is so different from American fare. The production values are nowhere near as slick and glib, and it has a lot to (discreetly) say about social and personal values. I’m not surprised that the more pastoral students on The Rock would like it. 🙂
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pastoral??? lol
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Do they carry firearms at school??! And not even the big school in St. John’s, just the branch office in Corner Brook. Settle for pastoral. 😆
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Good description of time travel to explain the image.
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Some things improve with age; others don’t. I’m not sure that either the overgrown weeds, or the huge buildings, are an improvement. 😦
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I think it is just that things change. Yes, and it might not be the way we want it to change.
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If you’d like, I’ll let you read a recent post about all the changes that I didn’t want, and have whined about occurring to me, since I exceeded 70. (That’s an age, not a speed limit.) 😯
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I’ve postponed watching Dr. Who (there are so many, where to start?) but I get the feeling I miss out on something good. Like this story, which is fun.
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Fun is my usual default setting. I’ll try to have some more for you next week. 🙂
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I enjoy watching Dr. Who, but I wouldn’t want to travel with him. You can die if you’re not careful. I couldn’t see it when our dish company dropped BBC, but another channel picked it up. We started watching it when our kids were young. The special effects have really improved over the years. Good story. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Dr. Who hasn’t ‘lost’ a lot of companions, but the feeling of risk and danger is still there.
The special effects have improved, though I’m not convinced that’s a good thing. I still have a large store of imagination, something ‘kids these days’ are not supplied with. 😳
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