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Ah, it's an elitist thing! With you all the way in that case-VOTD and VOTD can languish in misery trying to work out their identity issues while Resurrection, Revelation and Remembrance of the Daleks bask in the glory of their full titles!
![]() Not SUPPOSED to be elitist. (maybe just a happy coincidence) Just that as the current stories are so often referred to, it is more common to abbreviate them.
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Excel data sort is your friend
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glad i'm not the only one always thinking of shakespears ttots
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Shakespeare's TTOTS? Ah, The Taming Of The Shrew! Took me a while.
Not to be confused, of course, with Shakespeare's Tea Tots, a sort of Elizabethan Teletubbies. |
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Shakespeare's TTOTS? Ah, The Taming Of The Shrew! Took me a while.
Not to be confused, of course, with Shakespeare's Tea Tots, a sort of Elizabethan Teletubbies.
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Or his more raunchy Tudor Totty On Show
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Shh, Shakespearian scholars don't like it when you bring up his brief career as the owner/manager of the Spearmint Wildboar club chain...
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I covered up the titles and tried to guess what the acronym was trying to say. I say I only got about 20% of them - mostly series 4 and 5 ones and ones like L&M as they have the & in.
I think I'll probably bookmark the page as well! lol |
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But trying writing the whole thing
![]() Okay it is a bit slang but try writing the whole ruddy thing , ye dr who fan of now ax
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I thought I'd try the same approach with some classic stories after all, but oddly enough DW&TS and TMOSBE don't seem to trip so easily off the tongue. And calling a perfectly decent William Hartnell story ROT just seems wrong...
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I'd rather use episode anagrams, similar to Shakespeare's The Mating of the Wersh.
The Ned of Mite The Coinrun and the Swap Runt Felt The Santa Tip Dab Flow Dockgirl Shelf and Notes The Prating of the Sway The Rawest of Rams The Bates Bowel and so on. |
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I'd rather use episode anagrams, similar to Shakespeare's The Mating of the Wersh.
The Ned of Mite The Coinrun and the Swap Runt Felt The Santa Tip Dab Flow Dockgirl Shelf and Notes The Prating of the Sway The Rawest of Rams The Bates Bowel and so on.
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![]() Okay it is a bit slang but try writing the whole ruddy thing , ye dr who fan of now axJesus.... |
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I was debating the other day if B was a better episode than M, I love SS in B but M is just so intense with DT, despite the lack of CT. I also love LC as an actress, but her character was a bit of a cow and buggered off back to EE. Then I watched G and realised that it's a decent episode, almost as good as the opening sequence of U. Then we have R, which is just worse than watching paint dry.
I like acronyms but sometimes it takes me a while to figure out what they are. It took me a while to realise was TEH was - I just assumed someone was emphasising 'the' and misspelt it. |
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I was debating the other day if B was a better episode than M, I love SS in B but M is just so intense with DT, despite the lack of CT. I also love LC as an actress, but her character was a bit of a cow and buggered off back to EE. Then I watched G and realised that it's a decent episode, almost as good as the opening sequence of U. Then we have R, which is just worse than watching paint dry.
I like acronyms but sometimes it takes me a while to figure out what they are. It took me a while to realise was TEH was - I just assumed someone was emphasising 'the' and misspelt it. (Just remember to hold it at arms length and look confident.) |
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Would this be useful?
Please note that I have, for my own purposes of clarity expanded the two instances of duplicated abbreviations slightly. Abbrv Title 42 "42" AC "Amy's Choice" AOG "Army of Ghosts" AOL "Aliens of London" Blink "Blink" BT "Boom Town" BW "Bad Wolf" CB "Cold Blood" CIN "Doctor Who: Children in Need" (Barcelona ![]() Dalek "Dalek" DIM "Daleks in Manhattan" Doomsday "Doomsday" EOTD "Evolution of the Daleks" F&S "Flesh and Stone" FD "Father's Day" FH "Fear Her" FOB "The Family of Blood" FOTD "Forest of the Dead" Gridlock "Gridlock" HN "Human Nature" JE "Journey's End" L&M "Love & Monsters" LOTTL "Last of the Time Lords" Midnight "Midnight" NE "New Earth" PIC "Partners in Crime" POTD "Planet of the Dead" POTO "Planet of the Ood" POTW "The Parting of the Ways Rose Rose" ROTC "Rise of the Cybermen" S&J "Smith and Jones" SITL "Silence in the Library" SR "School Reunion" TAC "Tooth and Claw" TAOS "The Age of Steel" TBB "The Beast Below" TC "Time Crash" TCI "The Christmas Invasion" TDDAN "The Doctor Dances" TDDAU "The Doctor's Daughter" TEC "The Empty Child" TEH "The Eleventh Hour" TEOT 1 The End of Time Part 1 TEOT 2 The End of Time Part 2 TEOTW "The End of the World" TFOP "The Fires of Pompeii" TGITF "The Girl in the Fireplace" THE "The Hungry Earth" TIL "The Idiot's Lantern" TIP "The Impossible Planet" TL "Turn Left" TLE "The Lazarus Experiment" TLG "The Long Game" TND "The Next Doctor" TPS "The Poison Sky" TRB "The Runaway Bride" TSC "The Shakespeare Code" TSE "The Stolen Earth" TSOD "The Sound of Drums" TSP "The Satan Pit" TSS "The Sontaran Stratagem" TTOA "The Time of Angels" TUD "The Unquiet Dead" TUOTW "The Unicorn and the Wasp" TVOV "The Vampires of Venice" TWOM "The Waters of Mars" Utopia "Utopia" VATD "Vincent and the Doctor" VIOTD "Victory of the Daleks" VOTD "Voyage of the Damned" WW3 "World War Three" |
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Acronyms and name shortening in any way can be distressing for some. Just ask Pete Doherty, he's been panicking since Susan Boyle appeared on the scene!
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Is anyone else other than me having trouble reading threads where episodes are refered to by acronym only?
The initialisms, on the other hand, can be a bit troublesome.
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Would this be useful?
Please note that I have, for my own purposes of clarity expanded the two instances of duplicated abbreviations slightly. Abbrv Title 42 "42" AC "Amy's Choice" AOG "Army of Ghosts" AOL "Aliens of London" Blink "Blink" BT "Boom Town" BW "Bad Wolf" CB "Cold Blood" CIN "Doctor Who: Children in Need" (Barcelona ![]() Dalek "Dalek" DIM "Daleks in Manhattan" Doomsday "Doomsday" EOTD "Evolution of the Daleks" F&S "Flesh and Stone" FD "Father's Day" FH "Fear Her" FOB "The Family of Blood" FOTD "Forest of the Dead" Gridlock "Gridlock" HN "Human Nature" JE "Journey's End" L&M "Love & Monsters" LOTTL "Last of the Time Lords" Midnight "Midnight" NE "New Earth" PIC "Partners in Crime" POTD "Planet of the Dead" POTO "Planet of the Ood" POTW "The Parting of the Ways Rose Rose" ROTC "Rise of the Cybermen" S&J "Smith and Jones" SITL "Silence in the Library" SR "School Reunion" TAC "Tooth and Claw" TAOS "The Age of Steel" TBB "The Beast Below" TC "Time Crash" TCI "The Christmas Invasion" TDDAN "The Doctor Dances" TDDAU "The Doctor's Daughter" TEC "The Empty Child" TEH "The Eleventh Hour" TEOT 1 The End of Time Part 1 TEOT 2 The End of Time Part 2 TEOTW "The End of the World" TFOP "The Fires of Pompeii" TGITF "The Girl in the Fireplace" THE "The Hungry Earth" TIL "The Idiot's Lantern" TIP "The Impossible Planet" TL "Turn Left" TLE "The Lazarus Experiment" TLG "The Long Game" TND "The Next Doctor" TPS "The Poison Sky" TRB "The Runaway Bride" TSC "The Shakespeare Code" TSE "The Stolen Earth" TSOD "The Sound of Drums" TSP "The Satan Pit" TSS "The Sontaran Stratagem" TTOA "The Time of Angels" TUD "The Unquiet Dead" TUOTW "The Unicorn and the Wasp" TVOV "The Vampires of Venice" TWOM "The Waters of Mars" Utopia "Utopia" VATD "Vincent and the Doctor" VIOTD "Victory of the Daleks" VOTD "Voyage of the Damned" WW3 "World War Three" |
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I very rarely remember the episode titles, let alone the acronyms! I always think of them as 'the one with the gas mask/Agatha Christie/Pompeii/Shakespeare/that ridiculous Peter Key blobby thing/the double decker bus. I'd say the only ones that I'd immediately think of by their title are maybe Blink and Dalek, maybe also Midnight. It's odd, it's not as if I haven't watched the episodes a million times.
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I very rarely remember the episode titles, let alone the acronyms! I always think of them as 'the one with the gas mask/Agatha Christie/Pompeii/Shakespeare/that ridiculous Peter Key blobby thing/the double decker bus. I'd say the only ones that I'd immediately think of by their title are maybe Blink and Dalek, maybe also Midnight. It's odd, it's not as if I haven't watched the episodes a million times.
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Acronyms and name shortening in any way can be distressing for some. Just ask Pete Doherty, he's been panicking since Susan Boyle appeared on the scene!
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I think it's an excellent idea, an accronym dictionary. or is that an "AD"
in fact I will start - for example new series one episode 1 rose WILL be ns1,ep1,R ![]() EDIT - darn it, the chap above posted before me with a much better list for the new episodes, but what about the old episodes? How about we shorten the title - Logopolis can be just Log, Castrovalva can be... Castro? And if you're talking about more than one episode, save time by putting the episode titles together, like "Castrogopolis" Or "The Unicorn and the Silence in the Library" "or Tooth and Fireplace"
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Okay it is a bit slang but try writing the whole ruddy thing , ye dr who fan of now ax
