You know you've watched too much "Doctor Who" when...
- You refer to train journeys as "The Great Journey of Life".
- You actually understand the plot of "The Trial of a Time Lord".
- Dying is the last thing you want to do.
- Watching "2001: A Space Odyssey", you think: "My God, he's fallen into the title sequence!"
- If someone offends you while you're holding a ballpoint pen, you have an inexplicable urge to point it at them and giggle uncontrollably.
- At night, you run from building to building in fits of terror, but feel unaccountably safe as soon as you get upstairs.
- You respect anyone whose job includes the phrase: "Scientific Advisor"...
- ...And regard the army as a sort of meals on wheels service crossed with a tea break.
- If someone tells you the ends don't justify the means, you immediately suspect them of planning to kill you to save the world.
- You think anyone wearing a black suit is likely to kill you.
- Your natural reaction if a school head master appears wearing a dead bird on his head is to run away screaming.
- You start dividing what you say into good and bad dialogue.
- Anyone who works in the field of artificial limbs is an enemy of humanity.
- You see the best way out of any situation as being to act as wierdly as possible until people give up and do what you say.
- You walk around cursing: "Humans!" under your breath when someone does something stupid.
- If you're accused of being moody, you tell them it's just this current regeneration.
- You look at people's faces and try to see the joins in the mask.
- The colour for monsters is green.
- You treat everyone as an idiot, especially your closest friends.
- You aim to create an AI shaped like a small dog.
- You have created an AI shaped like a small dog....
- ....but haven't told anyone because Earth's government's have nasty enough weapons as it is.
- If human technology eventually succeeds in building an AI which does not look anything like a small dog, you will immediately recognise it as a threat to the entire human race and blow it up.
- If someone you know starts acting in a strange way, you knock him out, steal his pen, and try to pull his face off.
- All sapiend life forms are your kith, but anything that looks like a reptile or an insect is fair game.
- Anyone believed dead who amazingly turns up alive and well is best killed again as soon as possible.
- When you wander around a lot you tend to meet yourself occasionally.
- If you meet your own future self, you do everything in your power to kill him.
- You see a security guard, your mind sees a cabbage.
- You think you can get out of any situation by bravado, conjuring tricks, or a little bit of supernatural lock-picking.
- Your dearest wish is to live in a telephone box.
- Anybody who announces that they want to live forever is probably evil, plainly mad, and best petrified as soon as possible.
- You find it oddly difficult to bid someone farewell without using the quote: "Bye-bye, Duggan."
- You shpeak in a cod Jairman accent during all science classes.
- Your response to a heavily armed alien invasion fleet is to stick your tongue out and go: "Nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah!"
- If heroes don't exist you start inventing them for the sake of public morale.
- You kick your computer if it doesn't work, but kiss it better if anyone else kicks it.
- If it does work, you pat it and say: "Good old Earth craftsmanship."
- Never strike first, but if someone picks a fight with you, you don't stop until you've blown up their entire solar system.
- You collect all the sentient weaponry you can, as you never know when it might come in useful.
- You have problems in essays, believing "What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"
- You break your television trying to create a positive feedback effect.
- You are politically ahead of the game, since you know all politicians are corrupt and furthermore, extremely stupid.
- In the event of a nearby nuclear disaster, you take no greater precaution than to hide behind your car and pull a face.
- You don't believe anything is impossible, but alien technology helps.
- If you get lost when driving a group of people, you try to bluff your way out with technobabble.
- If that doesn't work, then you claim the route map has been tampered with to send you on a top-secret mission.
- You have little ambition- it's not that power corrupts, it's just that ruling the world is very, very boring.
- At appropriate moments in your life, you hear your own incidental music.
- If you ever need a bodyguard, you take someone from the seventeenth century.
- You insult people a lot- they're all so stupid you'll probably be long gone by the time they realise you were being rude to them anyway.
- People with American accents are there to be mocked. Actually, this is true, but who cares.
- You have a sudden, otherwise incomprehensible desire to wear a big coat....
- ....and don't take it off, even if the temperature is in the thirties.
- You start to experiment with Lego, trying to see how close a copy you can build of the TARDIS control room.
- Death doesn't scare you- making jokes is much more fun.
- You find it irritating that reference books printed after 1970 print the 'real' version of the 1970s, and not the canonical one.
- About to finish an essay, you can't resist murmuring: "Nuzzing in ze vorld can shtop me now".
- You honestly care about whether "Dimensions in Time" is canonical.
- You can bear to watch the McGann film because, in spite of everything else, it's 'New Doctor Who'
- The name 'BBC' brings an involuntary snarl to your lips.
- You fervently believe the theories of Erich Von Daniken because they have been proven accurate.
- Fans of 'that Trek rubbish' are to be pitied for their lack of taste. Again, true, but none the less...
- The only other sci-fi shows you can truly accept are "Babylon 5" and "Blakes' 7", because they were both "Who" influenced and both see the government as the enemy.
- If your boss/tutor/teacher asks you to do something, you respond: "I will not tolerate this continual interference in my life!"
- If you trip over your words, you describe it as a 'Hartnellism'.
- You can't hear the word 'jetty' without vaguely sniggering.
- You think people from Wales are called "comedy Welshmen", or "sheep".
- Those polluting the planet are not just misguided and selfish, they're also probably mad computer controlled alien fascists from the future as well.
- If you park your car badly, you expect to emerge in the wrong time zone.
- Travelling on a train and looking out of the window, you watch for CSO lines.
- Desks are for feet, bunsen burners for cocoa, and wine bottles for experiments.
- If you see a shop window dummy, you make sure its hands aren't pointing at you.
- If you're made redundant, you tell the government that your boss is trying to take over the world.
- You classify major historical events with reference to "Doctor Who" dates, real and fictional.
- You don't grow a moustache, you stick a fake one to your upper lip and surreptitiously adjust it when no one's looking.
- You say that you're going outside as: "Cutting to film now".
- If something bad or surprising happens, you freeze for a moment, waiting for the end credits to start rolling.
- You can unlock anything with a sonic screwdriver.
- There is always a way, and with you to lead, your friends are bound to succeed.
- If in doubt, you try to crawl into the ventilation system.
- Some of your best friends are humans.
- If someone is interfering with your plans, press him or her on the forehead and say "zwilp".
- You aren't surprised if people don't listen to you- you never do.
- If you want to warn people not to meddle in your business, you buy a darker coat (actually, this is true if you've been watching too much "Babylon 5" as well).
- The worst expletive you use is: "By the great parrot of Hades!"
- You have the occasional urge to answer your Philosophy tutor with: "Insufficient data", and call your College President "Lord President".
- Having called him "Lord President", you get very scared when you hear he's retiring, and keep an eye out for hideously deformed figures in black cloaks.
- You can recite whole sections of dialogue word-for-word.
- If you hear of a miscarriage of justice, your first assumption is that the prosecuting barrister is in fact the future version of the defendant.
- If you become a barrister yourself, then if all else fails, you try to charge the defendant with genocide.
- You are resigned to the fact that you and the rest of the world will never agree over the real mechanics of evolution...
- ...but don't really mind, as they haven't had your advantages.
- You invite a religious figure to your house for the specific purposes of ridiculing him and then turning him into a monkey.
- All your problems would be solved, if only you could build a workable transmat.
- You have indoctrinated another person into "Doctor Who" fandom by sheer determination.
- You cheer when extras die.
- When watching any story featuring Adric, you calculate the number of episodes he has left to live and jeer this at the screen whenever he appears.
- You refer to Bill Gates as "the Great Healer".
- You seriously cannot think of a better thing to do with a time machine than take a VCR back to 1964 and record all the lost episodes of "Doctor Who".
- You classify your friends as 'companion' and 'guest recurring character'.
- Dying, you decide to make a joke, expiring on the punchline.
- Whenever you see news footage of a train crash, you yell: "Model shot!".
- You give various 'personalities' "Doctor Who" related nicknames- 'Davros Hague' and 'Adric Blair'.
- You think of writing threatening letters to Tom Baker telling him that he has to die before any other Doctor, to maintain the sequence.
- You attempt to arrange events in the "Doctor Who" universe into a coherent chronology...
- ...You succeed.
- You can hum the Dominic Glynn version of the theme tune (actually this is more a sign of a non-human larynx than of having watched too much "Doctor Who", but I digress.
- You discuss dimensional transcendentalism in a Physics class.
- You cannot walk past one of those funny blue portaloos without wishing.
- You think there's nothing scarier than a Yeti on the loo in Tooting Bec.
- You plan to take over the universe, just so you'll get to meet the Doctor... for a few seconds.
- You have grown a Dalek.
- You have changed yourself into a Dalek.
- You can watch "The Tenth Planet" without laughing.
- You murmur, "Die, evil one, die!" whenever you see or hear of Bonnie Langford.
- You knock everyone you meet unconscious, just in case they turn out to be a Zygon.
- You are worried and appalled by the rapid speed of human expansionism.
- Anyone with a beard is evil.
- You search for volunteers to be crushed to a singularity, just to find out if willpower survives.
- You speak treason fluently.
- You write a list like this.
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