Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ncoast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!smith From: smith@ncoast.UUCP (Phil Smith) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Doctor's powers Message-ID: <1063@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 08:56:08 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.1063 Posted: Mon Mar 17 08:56:08 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 19-Mar-86 01:16:10 EST References: <1400@wucec2.UUCP> <151@sci.UUCP> <9422@ritcv.UUCP> <504@utastro.UUCP> Reply-To: smith@ncoast.UUCP (Phil Smith) Distribution: net Organization: North Coast Computer Resources Lines: 27 Keywords: language health inconsistencies Summary: > Article <504@utastro.UUCP> > From: wheel@utastro.UUCP (Craig Wheeler) > In article <9422@ritcv.UUCP>, msl5864@ritcv.UUCP (Michael S. Leibow) writes: > > ... > > >This might also explain why the Tardis is always referred to as a Tardis. > > >After Susan (do I have my history right?) made up the acronym, the Doctor stuck > > >it in the data base. > > > > > >david rickel > > > > I think the TARDIS had its name since its invention. I just recently saw An > > Unearthly Child, and I don't think that Susan made up the acronym. I believe > > that she just explained it to the intruders of the TARDIS. > > No, I have An Unearthly Child on tape (somewhere!) and I am almost positive that > Susan thought up the acronym... and David Rickel's explaination of the incon- > gruency is valid and certainly creative. > An Unearthly Child played here less than a month ago. Susan most definitely said that she was the one that made up the name. ( I've got it on tape to prove it ). -- ncoast!smith@Case.CSNet (ncoast!smith%Case.CSNet@CSNet-Relay.ARPA) ..decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!smith ncoast is dead, long live ncoast!