See, *this* is why we need time machines: to go back and recover lost Dr. Who episodes.

Phil Plait has a good article on it -

BTW, your username just registered on my brain. It's awesome.

I don't think we had the whole set when I was a kid, just the pillowcases or something... they were awesome.

Saw the photo and somehow, without looking at the comments, *knew* that someone would be saying this.

Those teachers are the very, very best.

Faintly, from the depths of the blackest gravity well on the internet, a thousand voices all out: "help me... TV tropes has me..." and all who hear them shudder, and run away.

The question isn't the anti-wife joke, it's whether the anti-wife joke is appropriate in the sort of setting where loads of wives are reading too. If it's told to a bunch of husbands exclusively, then maybe they can all have a nice little guy-based chuckle and cary on. (It's still a sad old joke and serenada's point…

See? And someone was claiming TVTropes wasn't a citeable source earlier. They're an *excellent* source.

I wonder if anyone's categorized the basic types of magic used in fiction? Like, magic based on belief; magic based on inherited traits (Harry Potter); magic based on mathematically interacting with an inherent magical field (Dianne Duanne); magic based on sacrifice (C. S. Friedman); magic based on gods; magic based…

I'm sure you mean this in a genial, humorous fashion. But whenever I hear men wishing that women would just be silent, or just quit bitching about how guys behave, or any other behavior, I can't help but construct elaborate revenge-ish scenarios in my head where men get exactly what they wish for. In my mind, the…

You can definitely cite TVTropes. Linking to TVTropes is always bad, though, as you're likely to loose your target audience for hours and hours and hours after... and when they come back, they'll never be the same.

dagnabit, it's not far enough along to add to a wishlist yet.

Are they halfway hot? Or at least decently hygienic? I'll volunteer. For the sake of science, of course...

LOL! Oh yeah. I've totally been guilty of assuming that my behavior would be reacted to differently because I couldn't read the social cues from the folks I was around and didn't realize how inappropriately I was behaving. It's tremendously, astonishingly humiliating.

true enough... but not every writer is as awesome as he is, either. If ever a writer deserved to be fought over it might be him. (I can't grudge a writer their success, when it's what I'd like too.)

YES! I have "The last days of Ptolomey Grey" on my ipad from the public library here, which can definitely be called sci-fi. He's an *awesome* writer. Cannot wait to see sci-f from him. Although, color me selfish as a mystery reader, I do have a little hope there's an element fo mystery to his sci-fi. :)

They never do address this issue in the comics. It's left as a sort of dignified blank. Doesn't stop anyone from wondering about it, though.

Remembering painful memories is a terrible thing, and terribly common given how adrenaline encodes memory.