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Titolo: Idiot Factor (was Re: Favourite Doctor)

 BTW, that is really not that bad an idea! ;-)
I thought this bit was really clever. And I am American :) With British
tendencies... :-)
I said this to a guy a work with and he nodded and laughed, he thought it
was a great little quip....
    Cheers for surrounding oneself with dolts and idiots (our network
administrator is one! Propeller-head central!!)
Gary
P.S. As a point of interest on the original thread, my favorite Doctor is
Pat Troughton. I like Jon Pertwee very much as well. My 'list' would
probably read:
1. Patrick Troughton
2. Jon Pertwee
3. Colin Baker
4. Tom Baker
5. William Hartnell
6. Peter Davison
7. Sylvester McCoy
Though it's hard to judge. I refrained from adding Paul McGann 'cause he
only appeared once but I like him. I think Rowan Atkinson would have made a
splendid series Doctor, and Joanna Lumley..?
"I've saved every planet in the Universe a minimum of 27 times..." -R.A.
'COFD'
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I can't find the e-mail this is a reply to, so, to recap:
I made a flippant remark that the thing I'd learned best from the Doctor was
to surround yourself with mediocrities so that you can appear cleverer, in
response to a "What did you learn from the Doctor?" thread. I also added an
explanation that this was a joke for the benefit of any Americans reading.
A couple of Americans responded, and well. With some grace and humour.
An English someone (Don't know who, as a said, can't find the e-mail) didn't
quite seem to understand that this also was just a joke and said (and I'm
paraphrasing here) that they found Americans generally didn't understand
irony and who liked Red Dwarf, Monty Python and Fawlty Towers funny were
generally okay and had a sense of humour.
NO NO NO NO NO
I'll knock our Colonial friends because it's fun (sorry about that, yankee
gentlemen and ladies) but Seinfeld! Frasier! Woody Allen! Yes, they produce
maudlin sentimental emotional crap but that's because they're a hundred
times bigger than we are and so they produce a proportionately larger amount
of crap than we do, and bear in mind, that we English DO produce our share
of crap. Americans do actually have irony! They have humour, even if they
can't spell the word correctly! They don't all appear on the Jerry Springer
show, inject Cheeseburgers directly into their rock-hard arteries
proclaiming "Gee, ain't it neat and don't it beat all to hell?"
Having defended Americans I now feel all sordid and dirty and, judas-like,
will slink on to my next point.
I don't mind Red Dwarf. I used to be very into Monty Python. Fawlty Towers
is a classic. But liking them doesn't prove you have a great sense of humour
or any special insight, it just proves you like three disparate televsion
programmes. That's it. Nothing else. I knew a guy who worshipped Red Dwarf
and there were very few occasions where he couldn't drag up a line from the
bloody show. He didn't have a capacious knowledge of Red Dwarf because he
had this great sense of humour. He'd just acquired a capacious knowledge of
Red Dwarf in lieu of one. It's like those infuriating people who tell you,
"I'm mad, me, completely crazy and off the wall." No, they're not! If you
have to tell someone how witty and zany you are then you can't possibly be.
If somebody actually, genuinely is a wild and unfettered unpredicatble fun
machine then you don't need to be told, do you? You can see they coming a
mile off. And avoid them.
Merry Christmas, one and all.
Ian.
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Previously Ian wrote:
"Yes, (Americans) produce
maudlin sentimental emotional crap but that's because they're a hundred
times bigger than we are and so they produce a proportionately larger amount
of crap than we do, and bear in mind, that we English DO produce our share
of crap. ......"
Well, we all know that. Australia is the only nation to produce faultless, perfect TV: Neighbours, Home and Away, Prisoner: Cell Block H.....need I go on.
Merry Christmas all. Don't let the Y2K bug bite!
Brad
Sydney NSW
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