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The Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation Superfluous. He is 903 years old,and serves in the capacities of saviour of lives and guardian of justice—as well as your host on the BBC1 documentary Doctor Who.
The Doctor was born between a Time Lord father and a genetic construction device "mother", on the planet Gallifrey. His father wanted him to be a doctor or a lawyer, and forced him to study at Gallifrey Medical University's citadel campus. However, he instead developed an interest in gadgetry and time travel, a paradoxically taboo subject amongst the Time Lords, and transferred to the Time Lord Academy. He built his own time-travelling TARDIS, which he gave away and then subsequently stole back. One day, he would be able to brag to inferior beings that he built the TARDIS, and subsequently confuse them by also saying that he stole it.
Just then, the Daleks, then a peaceful race of exterminators, went to war with the Time Lords, due to a horrible misunderstanding of the word "Time Lord," which in fact meant "termite" in the Dalek language. The Doctor escaped with his TARDIS, and he landed on Earth, specifically London, New Year's Day, 1963, and adopted Susan Foreman as his granddaughter, taking her last name to form his false Earth identity, "Doctor Foreman." At this point, the TARDIS became stuck in the shape of a police box. (Full article...)
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*... that the Japanese have a saying: "A man cannot read the same Wikipedia page twice"? The pages are constantly being edited, and the act of reading it will make you a different person. Therefore, when a man goes back to re-read it, both the text and the man have been changed.
- ... Nautical knots are not knots that can be knotted into knots (most likely not)?
- ... that the Japanese have a saying: "A man cannot read the same Wikipedia page twice"? The pages are constantly being edited, and the act of reading it will make you a different person. Therefore, when a man goes back to re-read it, both the text and the man have been changed.
- ... Nautical knots are not knots that can be knotted into knots (most likely not)?
- ... that the Japanese have a saying: "A man cannot read the same Wikipedia page twice"? The pages are constantly being edited, and the act of reading it will make you a different person. Therefore, when a man goes back to re-read it, both the text and the man have been changed.
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September 19: Talk Like A Pirate Day (International), Talk Regularly Day (Somalia)
- 1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States, budgeting 10,000 doubloons for defense, 5000 pieces of eight for social programs, and additional booty to highways.
- 1796 – George Washington makes his farewell address, saying "Aye me mateys, it were good being captain of this fine ship of state."
- 1957 – First U.S. underground nuclear bomb test is conducted, shivering timbers as far as 500 miles away.
- 1970 – Pirates the world over rejoice at Oldsmobile's launch of the Cutlass Supreme.
- 1985 – First pirated movie released. It is rated ARRRRRRRRRRR!
- 1995 – First Talk Like a Pirate Day. It rapidly replaces the unpopular Talk Like a Ninja Day, which involved people saying nothing so as to conceal their presence.
- 1997 - Mike Tyson ruthlessly made fun of after doing a pirate impression. Three ears are added to his collection.
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