Christmas is almost here. You know what that means. It’s time to bake those delicious gingerbread cookies! If you have a loved one that has fallen to the dark side of geekery, surprise them with a batch of specially decorated cookies that celebrate their favorite game or movie.
When you spend your days casually traveling through the infinite reaches of time and space in a big blue police box, you’re bound to run into a fair share of weird and wonderful characters from all sorts of kooky worlds and dizzying dimensions. The Doctor certainly has in BBC sci-fi series “Doctor Who,” which has been broadcast on British television screens since 1963 and is now approaching its 33rd season and 800th episode.
Throughout its near 50-year reign on worldwide TV screens (though with a 16-year hiatus from 1989 to 2005), “Doctor Who” has presented us with heroes, villains, creatures and monsters who have wowed and perplexed us nerdy viewers since the black-and-white days of ‘63. So, let’s take a look at the top ten characters (according to me) to have ever featured in this ground-breaking series, from the very beginning to the current incarnation.
Note: I’m including certain alien species as one entry as many of their members are, frankly, indistinguishable from one another, and to not include them seems unfair.
10. The Autons
First up, it’s the Autons, who were not only the first villains to be battled by the third Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee, but also by the ninth Doctor, played by Christopher Ecclestone; they were also the first “Doctor Who” villains to be shown in glorious Technicolor.
Season 1: Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
Here we have the episode that started it all. The groundbreaking pilot that was filmed using cut and paste stop motion animation, the only episode not to be animated on a computer. We’re introduced to the characters: The football jock Stan, the smartypants Kyle, the perpetually dying Kenny, and of course, the racist, evil, foul, bad tempered, conniving fatass, Cartman. The kids are at the bus stop when Cartman tells them of an awful dream he had where he was abducted by aliens and probed. Despite evidence to the contrary, some of it VERY compelling…
Oh hey guys what's up? Fishsticks for dinner last night?
…Cartman still believes it to be just that: a dream. The So called “visitors” up the ante by turning cows inside out and kidnapping Kyle’s little brother Ike.
By Michael McLaughlin
Quitting smoking? Fear not, it’s easy – I’ve done it lots of times.
No, seriously, I’m such an advocate of quitting smoking that I made this video that may or may not inspire you to do the same!
The patch, the gum, the Zyban, or any of that other crap is OUT. Cold Turkey baby! It’s the best way, because trust me, then and only then do you really experience yourself quitting and then actually adapt to it. You build more willpower in those first few days of cold turkey than you ever will by easing off “painlessly.” Oh yeah, and of course, if you’re on the patch and then cheat by smoking, you could actually have a heart attack – COLD TURKEY BABY!
But some people experience some not so pleasant things: constipation, insomnia, irritability, crying for no reason among other wonderful withdrawal symptoms – not fun. But hey – they fade – and pretty quickly too.
So go ahead, check out my music video on quitting the habit! You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll want to join the leagues of born again anti-smokers who just can’t bear to be in the same room with a smoker and take pleasure in feeling superior and indignant to the offenders!
What do you get when you cross the Death Star from Star Wars with a jigsaw puzzle? If your answer is “the Wikipedia logo,” you either made these pictures or you have a really wicked way of thinking.
A creative anonymous artist made fun illustrations by observing that if you combine different objects, you can get some of the well known logos of products or companies.
