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Oh no! It's the Sturgeon's photo all over again. Unless you meant Nicola.

Grebe?

You're a right pair of Herbets, and no mistake.

I see Sam Rockwell as Zaphod Beeblebrox! Or possibly the singer from Nickelback...

I don't know, but I suspect that it's the other way around.

Tossers. Though it was obvious they'd try this. They were given 3 years to rebuild, but I hope this gets reduced now.

Do you remember that great comedy The Fall and Rise of Reggie Perrin? The title character's middle name was Iolanthe.

Hey! Not all of us have that lovely natural slime, you know. Oiling up properly takes work, you know.

I think that if you asked me what coins I was holding, it would be correct to say that I have two pennies in my hand. If you asked how much money there was, I'd say two pence. That's the distinction in UK English, I think. Pennies for the coins, pence for what they represent. But never, ever...

Yes, shillings and florins (aka "two bob") could be spent in shops until the 5p and 10p, respectively, were shrunk. Until then, 5p and a "bob" were the same size and weight. Oddly, the first 50p coins (ie the large ones) came out in 1969, 2 years before decimalisation. Until then, there had...

I've always loved that image. The site linked says it's probably by Rodney Matthews and used for a computer game. Let me state that it's definitely by Rodney Matthews, and I believe its earliest usage was on a Diamond Head album cover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am_I_Evil_(album)...

And also, in any given line-up, surely only one person is the suspect? Isn't that the point? So 4 out of 5 aren't even suspects.

Bonuses of re-watching the old stories include playing "name that supporting actor". For example, the aforementioned "Seeds of Doom" includes Tony Beckley (Camp Freddie from The Italian Job) as the sinister baddie, and John Challis (Boycie from OFAH) as his murderous sidekick.

"Robot" may, indeed, be cack when watched again, but I saw "The Robots of Death" the other week, and it still held up very well. In fact, a lot of the middle-to-late Tom Baker stories are still pretty good - I've also recently watched "Face of Evil", "Brain of Morbius" and others, and yes, you...

Yes, I remember my Latin, but assumed "Point Nemo" was pronounced the anglicised way (whether named after Verne's character or the animated clownfish, I don't know!).

Good point - should it be knee-mo or nay-mo? I've always assumed the former. However, as you say, we always tend to go with Ever-est, even though I know that the man himself was Eve-rest.

Well, I do recall it, so it did at least dip its toes in the Midlands in the 1970s.

I guess the tears were down to the sheer shame of getting caught. He probably wasn't a "regular", just some sad case without a plan who decided to pocket something on the spur of the moment. Funny, I'm normally pretty zero-tolerance on any crime, but something in what you wrote has elicited...

Some of the FE videos I've seen dispute the existence of this thing we call "gravity". Apparently, it's all density and buoyancy... which of course does nothing to explain how density decides which way is "up".

And it's available in about 20 different flavours (only a very slight exaggeration) these days, so if you don't fancy the original, there are other options. Here's some minor strangeness though: you can now get sugar-free Lucozade. Doesn't that defeat the object of the stuff?

That seems to suggest that presenting the Lottery show is bad for your health. A good proportion of those named above have carked it.

A good idea. If he gets too hot during the marathon, he can open the door.

Well, both tournaments are played at a fixed time in the year, and all of the major tournaments finsh with the mens singles on the final Sunday. So, although the 2195-day coincidence seems remarkable, it's just 6 years, give or take a day or two.

On a more positive note, a Happy 90th Birthday to Tom Baker!

Whereas Davros speakers sound like Daleks.

I think some Flat Earthers display a bit of this when they refer to dissenters as "Globetards"!

As so often with this sort of total bobbins, it's less about answering questions and more about showing how the discoverer isn't one of the "sheeple", finding stuff that "they" don't want you to know.

Thinking (or more likely, over-thinking) about this one, I wonder if the effect is similar to those illusions where one picture changes into another as you get closer or further away. The most commonly seen one involves Marilyn Monroe turning into Einstein.

Clever! I moved back 2m at first, but that's testing my focus (mildly short-sighted), but as I edged back in, it became clear. Now it's hard to unsee it.

Give that man a plaque!

If you know that the car is going to fail its MOT and will be scrapped, that means it's unroadworthy now, and you shouldn't really be driving it at all. I shan't tell, though, not as the test is in a couple of days! And anyway, your fears might not come true. I've had old cars pleasantly...

There's no hope...

Yes, but science fiction, I'd like to hope!

Fair enough! But Newton didn't invent the name or the concept, and the correct word comes from the Latin gravitas, meaning weight, so there's not a chance that Sir Isaac would have thought to say "mavity"...

I fear I probably did exactly that, back when that series was broadcast. I tried to choose my words a little more carefully this time! By the way, someone tell Russell T Davies that it's not big or clever (or remotely amusing after the 75th time) to have someone say "mavity" every episode.

It was good fun, if a bit light on plot, but Gatwa is certainly charismatic. Not sure that I'm quite as gushing as the Guardian, but he's extremely watchable. The singing and dancing were justified in context, so I hope we don't get too much more of that! Well, they made a whole season out of...

And Reece Dinsdale, too. Very unusual as a forename, though.

I missed it on original broadcast, and have only watched it on VHS!

I mostly agree with that. There's much to enjoy in Fenric, but it would've benefitted from another 20 minutes injected into the story, so it didn't feel quite so rushed and jumpy.

I would. I've seen him on the TV.

If that is to be the case, surely it would be fitting if it were Jo Martin?

Yes, the fuel tank on the Pinto was notorious for its susceptibility to damage in a rear-end shunt, but I seem to remember that a major target of Nader's writing was the rear suspension on the early Chevrolet Corvair. It had a tendency to tuck under during aggressive steering, and could cause...

Don't... ever... blink.

I'm holding out for a mammoth burger.

I'm sure I read that sailors who landed on Mauritius ended up eating the dodo due to lack of alternative, but that it tasted disgusting. However, the ethics of bringing extinct species back from the dead is tricky enough as it is. I definitely don't think we should bother if the first thing we...

Stop - you're making me hungry! :)

Not for the first time, Nikola Tesla has hit the nail on the head there. Today, there's barely a news report, on TV or radio, which doesn't contain at least some mention of AI. We're all being led to believe that we're on the brink of some amazing world of true machine intelligence, but that's...

I also would have sworn that "Blue Book" was in the show's title!

I don't think that a Dorito wrapped in duct tape would taste very nice at all.