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Feb-06-12, 10:09 AM (EDT) |
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26. "RE: Griffin Academy: Meet Our Faculty"
In response to message #25
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>>> >>>>Should I be glad I don't get it? >>> >>>It's relatively trivial. The Doctor was confined to Earth for a few >>>seasons, and UNIT created the identity of "Dr. John Smith" for him. >> >> >>That's not actually what Bob was referring to - he was making a >>reference to Doctor Zachary Smith, the cowardly, sniveling >>villain of the piece in Lost in Space (whose catchphrase was >>"oh, the pain") - but it's true that "Dr. John Smith" is a >>long-standing alias of the Doctor's. (It's also the name he used when >>he was hiding out as a 20th-century human schoolteacher in the 2007 >>two-parter "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood".) >> >>The middle initial used here, of course, is because "J" is the tenth >>letter of the modern Basic Latin alphabet. >> >Okay. Familiar as I was with the Doctor, I'd not made that >connection, and never realised they'd given him an ID as John Smith. >I'd THOUGHT maybe Bob was referring to Lost in Space, but was also >sure that wasn't quite right either. > >Thanx all. I was actually wondering if it was a reference to E. E. 'Doc' Smith... dstar |
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