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1. St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2018 23:45:03 EDT St John's Evil Twin
   I seem to be on a binge of reconstructions of missing #DoctorWho stories. Tonight's missing story is the controversial "Celestial Toymaker". Philip Sandifer cuts this down to size as racist claptrap but is quite happy to see the positive side of something like "The Talons of Weng Chiang". Yes, it's racist claptrap, but if you can see the brighter side of "Talons" then you can see the brighter side of "Toymaker". It's so much fun, or at least it sounds like it is. Rob Shearman points out that because it's missing we can imagine it looked a lot better than it probably did, but then I've always thought the surviving episode four stood up pretty well, so there's no reason to expect the worst of the others. The sets and costumes look gorgeous from the surviving stills.
   
   PS, I'm up to episode three, which includes a grammatical construction more fantastical than any of the surrealism so far. I can only describe it as a present perfect negated double optative: "You didn't ought to have said that."
   1. St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2018 23:57:25 EDT St John's Evil Twin

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      I remember asking my dad who Billy Bunter was. His reply was "Pommy crap."
      1. St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Jun-2018 23:58:27 EDT St John's Evil Twin

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         Embarrassingly I thought Cyril's catchphrase "Yaroo!" was hilarious and used it at every opportunity.
   2. St John's Evil Twin (stjohn@mulligrubs.me)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Jun-2018 00:01:17 EDT St John's Evil Twin

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      Eeeee, the trilogic game has a beautiful nixie tube move indicator!