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Just watched a fantastic drama about how Doctor Who came into being.
Loads of cameos, it was a game of Spot The Actor, there were at least 15 that I spotted that had been either companions, enemies or guest stars over the years.
Very moving and very well done!
David Bradley was excellent as Bill Hartnell and Brian Cox as Sidney Newman was terrific.
If you get the chance to see it, do so!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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More Dr Who trivia. One of the sound engineers I work with was a boom operator for the very first Dr Who episode....
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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is that "Doctor Who: The Day Of The Doctor" ?
We have it scheduled on ABC TV (think like BBC on a budget) for 6:50am Sunday
'g'
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No - that's the new episode
What was shown last night was a drama about the making of the original series in 1963
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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ahh .. cool, ta
Another look at ABC's lineup for Sunday shows a replay of the Day of the Doctor at 8:30pm, followed by 'An Adventure in Space and Time'
cool - Sunday night, phone.silent() & a glass of red wine awaits 
'g'
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: (think like BBC on a budget)
If only we had TV licenses. Think I may give Tony a quick call.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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There's some "exclusive additional scenes"[^] on the BBC site.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I've long believed that young kids should be allowed to learn by playing and not start their formal education until the age of 6 or 7 - however I have come across many a parent who want their kids to be formally educated from the age of 4 (or even earlier)
I think this is misguided - and part of the reason for sending my boy to a Steiner school was their 'slower ramp up' to formal education.
what do you think?
this[^] New Scientist article prompted the post...
I'd be interested to hear thoughts, especially from those of you with offspring, before & after reading the article.
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I think the younger the better: kids brains are like sponges; they soak up everything; fill them early and often.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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You'd think, wouldn't you? - but unfortunately the evidence differs
Quote: In New Zealand, several key investigations compared children who started formal literacy lessons at age 5 with those who started age 7. They showed that early formal learning doesn't improve reading development, and may even be damaging. By the age of 11, there was no difference in reading ability level between the two groups. However, those who started aged 5 developed less positive attitudes to reading and showed poorer text comprehension than those who had started later.
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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I could read by the time I started school at 4.5 and have read ever since. My language comprehension skills are good as are those of most of my contemporaries. Like all statistical research it is 75.3% bollocks.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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mark merrens wrote: Like all statistical research it is 75.3% bollocks.
whereas a result taken from a survey of one is 100% accurate?
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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Well, of course. How could you possibly think otherwise.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Valid if you subscribe to an empty sponge metaphor. Where does thinking come in?
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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pwasser wrote: Where does thinking come in?
For you? I have no idea. 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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I think the reason parents want to begin schooling so early is just to get the kids out of their hair.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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707!
How true - but there's no reason they can't be educated outside the home, but with the emphasis on play-based education and not formal education
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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_Maxxx_ wrote: with the emphasis on play-based education and not formal education
Exactly. Everyone, especially children learn better when they are having some fun.
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Every child is different and some are ready to learn early and some aren't.
Expose them to it if they are interested continue if not postpone!
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I think you are dead right in principal - but what happens is that the teacher f a kid whose (say) maths skills aren't as good as another kid's (even across schools) will have the parents berating the teacher saying he needs extra help with his maths, and are loath to accept that the kid isn't ready yet for formal maths, and is learning more playing in the sand pit with a set of measuring jugs.
In worse scenarios, parents who never read to their kids berate kindy teachers for not teaching their kids to read ... but that's a gripe for another day!
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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For a lot of parents school is a day care, where they drop off there kids 5 days a week and they don't have to deal with them.
If you don't take an interest how can you expect them to?
Yeah it's another day and another story...
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You should wait until the youth asks a specific question before giving "the talk".
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I started 1st grade at age 4, went from 4th to 6th grade skipping 5th grade, and finished 17 years of education by the time I was 20.
I thought I was pretty good till I ran into a 14-year-old sophomore in college -- not high school -- who I think earned his PhD by the time he was 20. I was envious that I was straight-jacketed into a rigid education system that wouldn't met me skip more grades.
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None of the "education" from primary school through high school is worth a damn anyway. It could be condensed to a single year that you could take when you're, I don't know, 10 or so, and even then it wouldn't be a very intensive year.
They do an excellent job at draining the will to live out of you though. That's probably the most important thing they do.
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