Re: [LEAPSECS] the Guardian and Doctor Who

From: Peter Bunclark <psb_at_AST.CAM.AC.UK>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 07:42:52 +0100 (BST)

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Steve Allen wrote:

> (with apologies to the BBC, John Nathan Turner, Tom Baker, Peter
> Davison, &c. for this note's subject: line)
>
> On Thu 2003-06-26T12:13:49 +0100, Ed Davies hath writ:
> > > The Guardian
> > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,985020,00.html
> >
> > I thought this was, generally, a quite good article
>
> It uses a curious phrase that I've encountered before in casual
> leapsecs discussion, but never before in print have I read
> "time lords".
>
> Now (aside from Doctor Who) I wonder who coined this phrase, when, and
> to whom it typically refers?
>
I'm sure that's the whole point, the author is familiar with the Time
Lords of Gallifrey and deliberately used that phrase.

Pete.
Received on Thu Jun 26 2003 - 23:43:09 PDT

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