The 8th Doctor appeared only in one made-for-TV movie, an intended pilot for a revitalized series. It was not popularly received, and the series was never made.

The movie was more concerned with establishing the Doctor as a character for unfamiliar audiences, and I believe it featured the Master as a villain, if any main villain at all.

"Why can't they just cancel each other's debts?"

1) The countries don't necessarily owe each other, but rather people in other countries. If I had French bonds and Pierre had US Treasuries, who would be the entities involved in a cancel?

2) The terms of the debts aren't necessarily the same. If I've got an IOU from Pierre saying he'll pay the holder $100 when he gets his paycheck on Friday, and he holds an IOU from me promising $100 after my paycheck comes in on Monday, cancelling the debts means I can't spend the money I expected to over the weekend (lucky Pierre!)

Even if the maturity dates are the same, interest rates can differ. If I agree to pay Pierre $10 a week interest and a balloon payment of $10000 at the end of the year (5.2% interest), and Pierre agreed to pay me $12.50 a week interest and a balloon payment of $10000 at the end of the year (6.5%), "cancelling the debts" would cost me an income stream of $2.50/week.

Let's see the video with a years worth of clothes on at the same time.

Back in 1983 I went to a friends house, where he showed me a BBS he connected to via his Apple ][. He explained to me that users typically didn't use their real name, but instead used aliases. I chose "Blaise Pascal", after the French mathematician that invented the first commercially made mechanical calculator. It seemed appropriate.

After signing on I found out that aliases like "Danger Man", "Captain Crud" and the like were much more common, but I decided to keep using Blaise Pascal. I tend to use it as a username whenever I can, excepting local policy. Although I have occasionally been called "Blaise" off-line, I don't use the handle offline very often.

Curiously enough, my real name is so unusual that I was kicked off of a BBS that had a real-name-only policy because the guy running could not believe my real name was real.

I was taught that in proper typeset text, the space between sentences should be larger than the space between words. The convention, when using a typewriter or other medium where spaces come in fixed sizes, developed to use two spaces instead of one so that size is larger.

I wouldn't call it a gatling gun. It doesn't appear to auto-load, so it's more accurately a 10-round revolver. It gets 200+ shots on a single charge of the air tanks, but it does appear that after 10 shots, it's necessary to stuff t-shirts back in the barrels.

All 23 in 1:39. Of course, I lost some time trying to make sure I spelled Pennsylvania correctly...

Only three of that 10 (weird/wierd, a lot/alot, definitely/definately) are spelling errors. The other are common word choice mistakes, mostly homophone/near homophone confusions.

Calling "lose/loose", "then/than", "it's/its", etc "spelling mistakes" is simply wrong.

@unsure: Most people with HIV cannot state with certainty how they got it. White and Asimov are unusual in that regard. They were also more public about how they got it than the others.

It's never played entirely at a funeral because Il Silenzio is an Italian trumpet tune composed in 1965, while Taps is an American military bugle call which was in use by 1885.

The two songs are different, starting to diverge at the 2nd note, even. They sound vaguely similar, but not really that close.

I agree with Theresa... drop spindle whorl. Especially if the hole is tapered.

I used to shove dirty dishes in the oven to get them out of the way. I stopped after I preheated a plastic ice-cream scoop.

Now I just store clean baking pans and similar in the oven. Occasionally I have to remove a bunch of 350F glass casseroles, but no more melted plastic.

Steve Martin, both in standup, and in the movie The Jerk.

I wonder if there is a difference in the purpose of counting. I've noticed that when I go to a bank and get cash in ways that has lots of bills, the teller will first count the money in a way somewhat similar to the "American" method, then count it again in a way somewhat similar to the "Turkish" way, and which point I scoop up the cash and count it myself, similar to the "American" way, despite having counted it twice when the teller was handling the cash.

Some of the methods seem designed to keep others from seeing how much money you have, some don't seem to care that much, and Turkey seems specifically designed to allow multiple people to count to verify the transaction all around.

Obscured: Far east, middle east, africa
Semi obscured: eastern europe/western asia,
Unconcealed: Arabia, English-speaking.
Blatantly Open: Turkey

I wonder, if anything, what that says about the treatment of money in those cultures.

It isn't effecting me *yet*. I don't get broadcast or network TV (netflix fits my schedule better) so I have to wait a season or so anyway before seeing "my shows". But the strike will make for a very short season this year.