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Thought you'd like to see my pet dalek............. totally housetrained of course.

Built over a single weekend..... a veeeeeeery looooong weekend. Bit of a nightmare really.. still, the old girl was worth it!!

Nice, me want!!!

Ta, I'll try and post a pic of my original Davros head. It's sitting on top of the telly (next to my Raiders/Lost Ark idol and just across from my Gladiator costume.... boys and their toys eh? Hmm, can you tell this is a woman free zone, ho hum..??)

Dr Who joke:

How do Daleks keep their skin smooth?









Exfoliate! Exfoliate! Exfoliate!

(you have to do the voice!)

flashman wrote:Thought you'd like to see my pet dalek.............

Okay, so maybe you can answer this question. It's been bugging me pretty much all my life...

What do Daleks EAT??

I don't think anyone has ever shown them having dinner. They fly through the cosmos shouting "Exterminate!" and being colonial bullies, but they never seem to give any thought to nutrition.

Imagine if pandas decided to be the new supreme race in the galaxy. They'd need a good supply of bamboo with them wherever they went. Luckily, bamboo grows really quickly, but success of a bamboo harvest is still very climate-dependent, so they'd need some sort of greenhouse system in colder territories. They couldn't just plant it wildly and expect dinner the next day. Similarly, a master race of koalas would need eucalypus on tap, and that's an even bigger challenge - especially as koalas also sleep for twenty hours of each day. The size of a supreme koala army would have to be colossal to allow a workable shift system around a four hour day.

So. What do they eat??

Pete

Courtesy of ITV Teletext:

Star Trek's Patrick Stewart could explore a new frontier in Doctor Who.

The accomplished actor, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the sci-fi classic, is reported to have signed up for a major role in a two-parter to air next year, involving the Daleks.

He's been linked to the role of a renegade Time Lord known as the Meddling Monk, last seen in Doctor Who during the '60s.

If memory serves correct, Peter Butterworth played the Meddling Monk back in William Hartnell's time as the first Doctor. Geez I feel old !

Mandrake wrote:Courtesy of ITV Teletext:

Star Trek's Patrick Stewart could explore a new frontier in Doctor Who.

The accomplished actor, who played Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the sci-fi classic, is reported to have signed up for a major role in a two-parter to air next year, involving the Daleks.

He's been linked to the role of a renegade Time Lord known as the Meddling Monk, last seen in Doctor Who during the '60s.

If memory serves correct, Peter Butterworth played the Meddling Monk back in William Hartnell's time as the first Doctor. Geez I feel old !

thats correct. I dont know why there brining back the character.

They seem to be bringing back just about every character one by one !

exept the candy man, and Syll.( who was one of my favorites)

daleshrimpton wrote:the candy man

AKA Bertie Bassett? Which, of course, was hotly denied by the Beeb!

yup.

That's interesting as he's now been mentioned twice in this thread... Must say something about the potence of him as character... Or his controversial nature!

Any Doctor Who fans may be interested in knowing they are running back to back episodes on a new cable channel called Watch.

pcwells wrote:What do Daleks EAT??

I don't think anyone has ever shown them having dinner. They fly through the cosmos shouting "Exterminate!" and being colonial bullies, but they never seem to give any thought to nutrition.

Daleks "eat" by breathing in nutrious gases, which are made from certain plant life found on Skaro. It is transformed into small dust particles which are easily absorbed in a gaseous state. These "food" gases are always carried on Dalek space ships, or if the Daleks are on another planet, their "food" can be made using certain types of pulverized plant life which is then processed into a gaseous form.

http://www.freewebs.com/dalek77/lifeonskaro.htm

No idea if that's true or not, but it could have come from one of the spin-off Dalek books back in the 60s and 70s.

How can they bring back the Meddling Monk? One additional Time Lord I could put up with, as it was the Doctor's nemesis, but the Monk?

I'd much rather see Patrick Stewart as the Celestial Toymaker.

So... they're vegetarian, eh?

I knew it!

On Skaro, the animals eat you!