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It's a Tardis tow truck?

 

You don't even know what 'TARDIS' stands for.

 

Time and Relative Dimension in Space

At one time I had every episode of the Tom Baker series on VHS tape. My wife got hooked on Miami Vice and taped over all of them. I was mildly pissed.

 

I'd been looking for a new wife!

I suppose it's better than the guys who taped over their weddings.

 

For a curmudgeon, you're very cool to know that. She must've been channeling Lord Grey, the head of the BBC way back when, who deemed all video tape would be reused, so a whole generation of British TV history disappeared as newer shows were videotaped. It took decades of searching archives around the world for video companies to find what we have recovered to date.

 

In '89, the Who put on a PPV performance of their album "Tommy," with the likes of, oh, Tina Turner as the Acid Queen, Phil Collins as wicked Uncle Ernie, etc. I paid $20 and videotaped it, only saw the original performance, because when I got home, I wanted to videotape "Where Eagles Dare" with Clint Eastwood. Guess which unmarked VHS tape I grabbed?

 

Back in the day, some genius thought that Dr. Who was a kid's program and they showed it after school so it had a small following, but they also reran it at 11pm. I was always a Fantasy and Science Fiction fan so I stayed up late and taped the episodes knowing they would eventually catch on. This was in the early day's of cable TV before BBC was available and it was shown on PBS. We were the only ones in the neighborhood who had a VCR and cable. A VCR cost $600 back then.

I was also way ahead of the curve on Lord of the Rings. I bought a first edition copy of The Hobbit when it was published and followed up with the LOTR trilogy, Tom Bombadiel, and the Silmarillion. I still have them.

 

Man, I'm of the opinion I was born 20 years too late. I should've been born in the Summer of '45 instead of '65. I remember watching Dr. Who, Monty Python, The Prisoner, The Goodies, On The Buses, Doctor in the House, and all other British programming on PBS in our basement in the mid-'70s. We didn't get a video recorder until the first VHS units under $100 came out, which was Christmas '83, IIRC. Dad was a neo-Luddite....

 

Looks like an ice monster with very long teeth.

 

From that angle, though, you'd have to call it '@$$face.'

 

I've been calling those that, as soon as adults taught me that word

 

Now that is awesome. 1970's "Glamping"