Re: The NEW, "What's that in your eyeballs?" thread. Part 10

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I wonder if anyone's ever done a story that's a mash-up of A Christmas Carol and War of the Worlds?

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They are Charles Dickens' two greatest novels, after all.

[Nightjar]

How would it work?

Scrooge, a miserly small business owner (a Starbucks franchise probably) in Woking, goes to bed after being an Xmas humbug and is haunted by a series of 'tripods' from different historical periods of tripod development (like the Rover P6: 2000, 3500, Series II) that crash into his bedroom and blast him with energy-headlamp beams of varying intensity, temporal relativity and moral nuance that in turn make him realise that...

Er...

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Scrooge sees Tiny Tim having his blood drained by a Martian and starts to feel bad about having sold the Martians their tripods in the first place.

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Scrooge was only rich because Jacob Marley told him the chances of anything coming from Mars were a million to one. So, Scrooge went to the bookies and bet £1 on something coming from Mars. He then phoned up the Martians and got them to invade Earth, so he'd win his bet and be an instant millionaire.

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Yes, that makes much more sense.

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God bless us, everyone.

[cosmictanya]

Tiny Tim was on Good Morning Britain this morning. He was so cute. I rang a couple of people to tell them to watch.

[Nightjar]

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Now to see what's on the telly right now.

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Christmas University Challenge is on BBC2 at 7:30.

It doesn't say what's Christmassy about it.

Maybe Jeremy Paxman will introduce himself as Jeremy Paxo.

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There's a documentary about toy-makers, on Channel 4, at 7.

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The remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still is on Film4 at 6:55.

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Mr Spock's on trial for taking the Enterprise to Talos IV.

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After that, the crew of Voyager come up against a villain called Annorax.

Seriously.

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Had they let Fred Freiberger loose on the show again?

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Forces TV now seems to be showing nothing but old sit-coms.

I fail to see how that ties in with its supposed military theming.

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The Thing is on The Horror Channel at 9 o'clock.

It is the Kurt Russell one.

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Kate Bush at the BBC, 1979 is on BBC2 at 5-past-midnight.

[Guest]

I'm watching malkie on the Oriental Express.

Albert Finney plays it as a comedy Belgian.

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