Posted 9 August 2011 in Doctor Who by Catriona
Strange things happen during Doctor Who:
ME: Why is one of that man’s eyes so bloodshot? Is he having an affair?
(Pause)
ME: I mean, a stroke. Is he having a stroke?
NICK: What?
ME: Sorry.
NICK: Well, that was a Freudian slip.
ME: I’m not having an affair!
NICK: So you say.
Posted 7 August 2011 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
ME: How is it that this spring-cleaning was your idea, but I’m doing three-quarters of the work?
NICK: I’m working!
ME: I don’t dispute that. I’m just saying you’re only doing one-quarter of it.
NICK: My pride rises up in revolt at that idea.
ME: Well, then, your pride can’t count.
Posted 4 August 2011 in Gaming by Catriona
WIZARD: Do you want me to send a squirrel messenger to the Watch? The enchantment takes ten minutes, but I have to catch the squirrel first.
Posted 4 August 2011 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
In which we discuss my shifting of an old photograph of us into a new, Apple-branded photo frame.
ME: I thought it was apt, because you love your Mac more than you love me.
NICK: Yeah.
ME: Were you listening to what I just said?
NICK: Yeah.
(Pause)
NICK: I love you?
ME: You weren’t listening to what I said at all, were you?
NICK: I was … listening to what I thought you said. And I’m just now realising that may not have been the same thing as what you actually said.
(Pause)
NICK: Bugger.
Posted 4 August 2011 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
In which we discuss the horrible, horrible music in the Jon Pertwee episode “The Sea Devils”, which had already prompted Nick to complain, “That video game conference they’re holding next door is really distracting”.
NICK: This is a picture of the machine that made those horrible noises.
ME: That’s terribly interesting.
NICK: I don’t think you’re treating this with the appropriate level of interest.
ME: Oh, I think you’ll find that I am.
Posted 4 August 2011 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
NICK: Katy Manning’s stunt double was actually Stuart Fell.
ME: But I said on Twitter it was Terry Walsh.
NICK: I know.
ME: Well, if you want to out me on Twitter as not recognising Terry Walsh when I see him in a ladies’ pantsuit …
NICK: Not at all!
(Pause)
ME: Dammit, I’m going to have to do it myself. The curse of being an academic.
NICK: What, having a sense of intellectual honesty? I can see where that might be inconvenient.