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The Dalek of the deep: Doctor Who's nemesis is found in pond
The Daily Mail Online ^
| 04th March 2009
| Daily Mail Reporter
Posted on 03/05/2009 12:46:06 PM PST by LRS
Volunteer Marc Oakland was stunned when he pulled the head of a Dalek from the murky depths of a pond he was helping to clean. The 42-year-old sales executive found part of Doctor Who’s arch nemesis as he pushed a rake along the surface while wading waist-high in water. He said: ‘I’d just shifted a tree branch with my foot when I noticed something dark and round slowly coming up to the surface. ‘I got the shock of my life when a dalek head bobbed up right in front of me.’ ...
‘After doing some research, we discovered the BBC often took the daleks out on location for filming, and they travelled to Hampshire on at least one occasion in the 1980s, when Colin Baker played the Time Lord. ‘Jon Pertwee also made a few Doctor Who episodes in the county during the 1970s. ‘Who knows, this might be the remains of one of the originals from the old TV series. I’m told they they were built to last.’
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: drwho; scifi
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posted on
03/05/2009 12:46:07 PM PST
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LRS
To: LRS
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posted on
03/05/2009 12:46:57 PM PST
by
bvw
To: LRS; KevinDavis
EXTERMINATE!
That would be such a cool find. :)
To: LRS
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posted on
03/05/2009 12:48:24 PM PST
by
Borges
To: LRS
Now, if they could just locate some more of those missing Patrick Troughton episodes...
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posted on
03/05/2009 12:48:31 PM PST
by
LRS
(Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
To: LRS
Looks more like a flux capacitor to me...
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posted on
03/05/2009 12:51:21 PM PST
by
pabianice
To: LRS
That would seriously freak me out.
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posted on
03/05/2009 12:57:44 PM PST
by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes right)
To: LRS
To: pabianice
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posted on
03/05/2009 12:58:33 PM PST
by
bikerman
(Obama lied;the Country died.)
To: LRS
In taking from another British production, “You lucky bastard.”
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posted on
03/05/2009 12:58:45 PM PST
by
antiRepublicrat
(Sacred cows make the best hamburger.)
To: LRS
Nifty find!
...EXTERMINATE!
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posted on
03/05/2009 1:01:02 PM PST
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: RabidBartender
To have a piece of vintage Who would be fantastic.
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posted on
03/05/2009 1:01:38 PM PST
by
wally_bert
(Tactical Is Still Missing A Chair! Star Wreck In The Pirkinning......)
To: RabidBartender
Send them to D.C. to clean up the mess.
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posted on
03/05/2009 1:05:37 PM PST
by
DarthVader
(Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
To: Lakeshark; Pippin; Darksheare
Derllak is what they call a defective Dalek.....bet you didn’t know that! :P
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posted on
03/05/2009 1:06:41 PM PST
by
derllak
To: LRS
Neat find, it looks like the predessor to R2D2
“Help me ObiWan Kenobi, you are my only hope”
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posted on
03/05/2009 1:14:16 PM PST
by
Kimmers
(Working hard so Obamas friends don't have to)
To: LRS
Hello, Dalek!
(sorry... really, really sorry)
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posted on
03/05/2009 1:14:30 PM PST
by
SlowBoat407
(Obama had to destroy the economy in order to save it.)
To: MAexile
I have to wonder, if the fellow who made the discovery had ever seen the William Hartnell (the first doctor) episode “The Dalek Invasion of Earth”. It has a cool scene where a Dalek emerges from beneath the Thames...
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posted on
03/05/2009 1:15:07 PM PST
by
LRS
(Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
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To: LRS
bad spelling ...... predecessor not predessor
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posted on
03/05/2009 1:16:47 PM PST
by
Kimmers
(Working hard so Obamas friends don't have to)
To: LRS
Well, how did that critter think its little wheels were going to work in that swamp. Not very smart. There’s hope for mankind yet.
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posted on
03/05/2009 1:24:53 PM PST
by
Dumpster Baby
(The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache.)
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