Damn - you didn't ask what the priest joke was...

Well spotted! Ah, lovely stuff.

I will! What's the priest joke?

Hooray!

Right - remember it was in context of Ethel_wombat saying '...it still doesn't explain why they needed a tow-truck to open the heart of the Tardis as surely Omnisicent Rose could have arranged that as well...'

A priest floating in the middle of the Atlantic as his ship has sunk. A trawler approaches and a sailor offers him a hand.
'Thankyou, no, The Lord will save me!' says the priest.
Next comes a luxury cruiser. Again the priest declines, with the same answer.
Finally a helicopter hovers over him, and a man climbs down a rope ladder towards him.
'The lord will save me!' says the priest, and the helicopter leaves.
After a while he gives up, sinks and drowns.
In heaven he faces God and says bitterly 'Why didn't you save me?'
And God replied (all together now!) 'I sent you a trawler, a cruiser....'

Not a great joke - Just seemed relevant...

LOL. Good point well made.

I suppose that you might think that if you didn't understand it

Reading mentions of opening the heart of the Tardis has inspired me to mention something that bugged me a bit about Jackie and Mickey on TPOTW.

Jackie gets the tow truck, and we see her leaping out of the driver's side, so I assume she has driven it from whence it came. However, it's Mickey who is entrusted with using it to open the Tardis. Jackie just stands there like a spare part. I like Jackie a lot, and it's a shame she didn't get the chance to be more use to Rose.

By the way, also interesting to note that Mickey has traded in his trendy Beetle from ROSE, and replaced it with a trendy Mini in TPOTW.

chuff.x.

Weren't both the original versions not those Johnny-come-lately modern versions