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Doctor Who and the Taxmen (Part 1)
Jun 5, 2008, 05:32 AM
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It’s good to know that some things never change.
Perhaps we can all remember hiding behind the sofa as a child when Doctor Who was on TV. Well, I always did have a vivid imagination - must be a family trait as I believe that one of my nephews was in the same hiding place (it's not the same sofa by the way) until his older brother explained: ‘Don’t be frightened, it’s just a man with a blanket on his head’.
How soon the innocence of childhood is lost.
But I see that David Tennant (Doctor Who version 10.0) has a new girlfriend, and just as some religions forebear relationships with outsiders, it seems that time lords adopt the same line because the lady in question is the daughter of Peter Davidson (Dr Who v 5.0).
The Daily Mirror blows the gaff in Time Lord dates the Time Lord’s daughter, but my question is how does Doctor Who afford this and all the other expenses that his time travelling lifestyle must incur?
Although the story explains that ‘they have been regularly staying over at each other’s homes’ – no doubt discussing the finer aspects of the space-time continuum – it also notes that they came up for air long enough to have been out on ‘some friendly dinner dates’.
Now even if you are on a ‘two for one special’, I know that London restaurants aren’t that cheap; anyway you wouldn’t would you, not if you were trying to impress a girl – although I suppose that being a time lord is fairly impressive by itself, so perhaps he could skimp a bit and still get away with it.
Anyway, when are we going to see ‘Dr Who and HMRC’?
Surely our favourite Government department have got to be interested in someone with no visible means of financial support?
I think episode 1 ends with a notice of enquiry being ominously pushed through the letterbox of the Tardis.
Stay tuned for next week's thrilling adventure.
Dumma de dum, dumma de dum, dumma de dum, dumma de dum, wooo ooohhh...
Haven’t got space in your office for copies of Taxation or time to sort them out? Don't worry, it’s on the web. Just click here.
Perhaps we can all remember hiding behind the sofa as a child when Doctor Who was on TV. Well, I always did have a vivid imagination - must be a family trait as I believe that one of my nephews was in the same hiding place (it's not the same sofa by the way) until his older brother explained: ‘Don’t be frightened, it’s just a man with a blanket on his head’.
How soon the innocence of childhood is lost.
But I see that David Tennant (Doctor Who version 10.0) has a new girlfriend, and just as some religions forebear relationships with outsiders, it seems that time lords adopt the same line because the lady in question is the daughter of Peter Davidson (Dr Who v 5.0).
The Daily Mirror blows the gaff in Time Lord dates the Time Lord’s daughter, but my question is how does Doctor Who afford this and all the other expenses that his time travelling lifestyle must incur?
Although the story explains that ‘they have been regularly staying over at each other’s homes’ – no doubt discussing the finer aspects of the space-time continuum – it also notes that they came up for air long enough to have been out on ‘some friendly dinner dates’.
Now even if you are on a ‘two for one special’, I know that London restaurants aren’t that cheap; anyway you wouldn’t would you, not if you were trying to impress a girl – although I suppose that being a time lord is fairly impressive by itself, so perhaps he could skimp a bit and still get away with it.
Anyway, when are we going to see ‘Dr Who and HMRC’?
Surely our favourite Government department have got to be interested in someone with no visible means of financial support?
I think episode 1 ends with a notice of enquiry being ominously pushed through the letterbox of the Tardis.
Stay tuned for next week's thrilling adventure.
Dumma de dum, dumma de dum, dumma de dum, dumma de dum, wooo ooohhh...
Haven’t got space in your office for copies of Taxation or time to sort them out? Don't worry, it’s on the web. Just click here.
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