The Date Is Given
Mar. 29th, 2006 02:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
incandescensWell, you know, normally I would be whining about a hard second day's work at the audit course, and probably more tomorrow . . .
. . . but I've just had word that the new season of Doctor Who starts on Saturday 15th April at 7pm. In other words, in two and a half weeks.
(hums can-can theme, modulates into Doctor Who music)
Almost I can ignore that the beginning of Spring has brought with it the beginning of pollen and the beginning of the occasional sniff.
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"I'm a peaceable servant of the Lord," he insisted again, "so when the Lernists invaded our country, contrary to all the laws of Christiandom, the tenets of diplomacy, the counsels of good taste, the pleasure of King Grangousier, the desires of my fellow countrymen, the welfare of their own sundry concerns, and the advice of their wives, who will now be in fine position to say 'I told you so' to the survivors, I merely uttered a prayer for their souls. When they started sacking and burning our towns, I gave them a pax vobiscum. When they began ravishing the women, I said no more than a few aves. When they commenced killing our men, I replied with a pater noster. When they swarmed into the sacred precincts of our holy order, my only comment was to tell, if I remember correctly, three beads. But when I saw them stealing our grapes and cutting down our vines, then I lost my temper."
-- Silverlock, John Myers Myers
. . . but I've just had word that the new season of Doctor Who starts on Saturday 15th April at 7pm. In other words, in two and a half weeks.
(hums can-can theme, modulates into Doctor Who music)
Almost I can ignore that the beginning of Spring has brought with it the beginning of pollen and the beginning of the occasional sniff.
---
"I'm a peaceable servant of the Lord," he insisted again, "so when the Lernists invaded our country, contrary to all the laws of Christiandom, the tenets of diplomacy, the counsels of good taste, the pleasure of King Grangousier, the desires of my fellow countrymen, the welfare of their own sundry concerns, and the advice of their wives, who will now be in fine position to say 'I told you so' to the survivors, I merely uttered a prayer for their souls. When they started sacking and burning our towns, I gave them a pax vobiscum. When they began ravishing the women, I said no more than a few aves. When they commenced killing our men, I replied with a pater noster. When they swarmed into the sacred precincts of our holy order, my only comment was to tell, if I remember correctly, three beads. But when I saw them stealing our grapes and cutting down our vines, then I lost my temper."
-- Silverlock, John Myers Myers
