Maius Intra Qua Extra

My husband found this on Imgur, and it's apparently from a Reddit post. These are headlines from The Onion applied to Doctor Who. In case you don't know, The Onion is a satirical website. It started as a physical newspaper on college campuses in the Midwest (its weekly publication was one of the things I used to look forward to as a grad student in UIUC), writing entirely humorous articles as if they were real news. Online, it's pretty much the same, with a format like online news.

The Redditor u/Past-Feature3968 created these images by taking past headlines from The Onion and applying them to images from DW, and they're all great. As my husband remarked, the very first one shows that the creator gets the relationship.

Here's the link. You don't need an Imgur account to view it.

Doctor Who as Onion Headlines

Yesterday, my husband and I were discussing the grocery shopping he was heading out to do, and it went like this.

Him: And lastly, some butter.
Me: Are you going to put it in the tub?
(Laughter)
Him: I really couldn't figure out why it was such a big deal that they had to talk about it on the radio! (More laughter.) Man, I wish I could post this somewhere.
Me: I already did.
Him. ..... Oh.

To be honest, he loves that I record this stuff.

Ever seen the comic "Strange Planet"? It's the one with aliens who do normal human stuff but say things in an alien way. It's by Nathan W. Pyle, and he publishes the panels on Instagram. We love it. I especially love that a kiss is a "mouthpush".

A couple of days ago, my husband showed me this one:



I read it, and I loved the fact that the alien on the table said "yes" to "too much or ok" as it captures the fact that massage is both painful and pleasurable, but I didn't get the third panel. I asked my husband what it meant and he had no idea, so he said, "Maybe it means Hurt me the way they do in Canada."

It took about ten minutes for me to stop laughing, but now that's part of our lexicon. "Would you like me to hurt your back the way they do in Canada?"

(It's Swedish massage, by the way.)

My husband just confided in me:

There's a guy here at work with the last name Parisotto. Actually, he works at a different office, so every so often, you might hear someone here mention his name, such as, "I've got a meeting with Parisotto." My husband said, every time he hears that, he has the urge to jump up and down, clapping his hands and squealing, "Parisotto! Parisotto! Parisotto!"

This will make no sense to some of you, but at least one person I know will get it. I was on the ground laughing.

This is not mine, but I'm posting this for three reasons. One, I want to save this where I can find it. Two, it's hilarious as well as instructive. And three, this is a fine insight of how my mind works when I write. I watch every single sentence I write as it walks into the bar. It's kind of crippling, actually.

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Today, I wore my "Day of the Doctor" t-shirt to work.

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This morning, during breakfast, my husband and I talked about Doctor Who, as is our wont. We decided to look through the episode lists of series 1-7 to see which episodes we can just sit down and watch and enjoy. Of course there are episodes we don't like and watch very rarely (if ever), but there's also a chunk of them that we don't watch for various reasons. For example, we tend to avoid multi-part episodes because of the mistaken belief that we don't want to devote that much time in front of the TV. This is stupid, of course. I will go, "Oh, I don't want to devote the time to watch HN/FoB even though it's my favorite episode, so I'll just put in Pompeii", then four hours later, after I've just chain-watched through most of series 4, smack myself for not just watching HN/FoB like I wanted to. I'm really stupid sometimes.

But I digress.

There are also episodes that we don't watch for other reasons. Despite it being my second-favorite episode, I've only actually seen "Midnight" twice because it's just too intense. Anyway, my husband pulled out his phone and read off the names of the episodes from the Wikipedia article. And then this snippet of conversation happened.

Him: Oh, "Doomsday"! That's a great episode, not even counting Rose getting punted. I mean, that was a pure bonus, but even without it, that was good!

A little later, we started talking about the ideal show we envisioned, if we could change things magically.

Me: I wish that Eccleston did a second season. I'd have him do two seasons, even if that meant that Tennant only got two, because I certainly don't want Tennant under Moffat.
Him: No, I think I'd rather insert a second season of Eccleston, rather than take one of Tennant's.
Me: But think about it. Two seasons of Nine and Rose, and Rose leaves with him, leaving Ten with Martha and Donna. That would be perfect.
Him: (thinks) That's interesting. But no, I wouldn't touch Tennant.
Me: I would.
Him: (rolls eyes)

We finally decided on an extra season of Eccleston and a second season of Ten and Donna, though I suppose by the end of that, RTD would just be a burned-out husk. Sorry, Russell THE Davies.

In the agile methodology of development, one part of it is morning scrum: every morning, the team gets together and everyone says what they did the day before, what they're doing today, and what (if any) obstacles are stopping their progress. Ideally, each person talks for less than a minute. It's meant to be an informational thing, so the team knows what everyone is doing and if there are problems that need to be addressed.

Yesterday, I took my little Tenth Doctor Funko Pop doll to scrum and placed him on the table in front of me. We started doing our talks and halfway through, the boss, who was late from another meeting, walked in, asked where we are in the meeting, then pointed to Ten and said, "Has he gone?"

I said, "Nope," and my husband said, "He doesn't want to go."

Sadly, no one else in the room was enough of a DW fan to get the reference, but the two of us were disabled with laughter for a bit.

IM from my husband:

The title of this article is David Tennant Video Vault: David on John Barrowman
so I thought I'd give you something to think about...