>Did no one else ever pick up on "eight tons of steel, depleted
>dalekenium, and high explosive downrange?" It gives me the the
>mental image of a giant bullet with a dead Dalek stuck on the end of
>it.

Nope. I just interpreted it as the WDF equivalent of APDSDU (the M1 and later versions 'silver bullet' rounds aka 'Round, 120mm smoothbore, Armor Piercing, Discarding Sabot, Depleted Uranium) till now.

I doubt I will be able to ever visualise it so simply again thanks to you. Or even funnier, an almost but not quite dead weakly murmering "An-NILe-eight" all the way to the target.