Adventures in Time and Space.

[davywavy]

It's a matter of historical record that the best Dr. Who was Tom Baker. All who claim otherwise are, alas, hopelessly deluded and should be incarcerated and kept away from sharp objects for their own safety.
Obviously Dr. Who is just a television series and he never really travelled in time. Or did he? Take a look:

Tom Baker as Dr. Who:


And then we have this portrait of Elizabethan dramatist and crackpot Ben Jonson:


And finally, details from The Burgher of Delft by Jan Steen:


Coincidence? I THINK NOT.

Comments

[kittensandsteam.livejournal.com]

I used to have a Tom Baker style Dr Who scarf when I was 5. I'm sure you can see how that thing was WAY TOO LONG!
(my mum knitted it for me).
I grew up watching Dr Who when he was playing the Dr so the Tom Baker episodes are pure nostalgia to me :)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I used to have a Tom Baker style Dr Who scarf when I was 5

I'm not sure I believe that your mum knitted it for you. I think you inherited it from an ancestor. A man of some importance in Delft, I don't doubt.

[kittensandsteam.livejournal.com]

Channeling his awesome scarf through my mum so she'd knit me a copy of his no doubt :P

I suspect my dad convinced her to knit me one to be honest, it sounds like something he'd do :)

One day (when I have the money to buy all the different kind of yarns) I'll knit myself a new one :)

Did you know there's an entire website dedicate to his scarf?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I wonder if somewhere deep in the BBC archives is a blooper reel with all the scenes in which Tom Baker tripped over or got caught up in that scarf...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I don't know, but there are apparently any number of out-takes of him swigging from the bottle of scotch he kept in one of the pockets of the Doctor's coat.

[teletai.livejournal.com]

This is one passerby utterly convinced.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Convincing random strangers on the internet is the very stuff of life.

[mrmmarc.livejournal.com]

My goodness! I am utterly convinced by your brilliant skills of debate!

[mrmmarc.livejournal.com]

WAIT WAIT! WAIT A FRIKEN SECOND!!!
Ben Johnson a crackpot?

I beg you pardon kind sir?

Are you suggesting that the writer of Volpone and The Alchemist, perhaps the most stunning satirist in Stuart England, and the ONLY man to give William Shakespeare a run for his money is insane?
I hink sir you will find he is sane damn your eyes!!
He was a soldier- you attacking one of our service men? ARE YA? And he served with distinction (just before one battle in the Netherlands he challanged one of the opposing Spanish forces to a duel in front of everyone- and won!).
Yes he MAY have stabbed someone in in Moorfields- but lets face it a- the victim was an actor so it was justified; b- it was a row the other guy ALSO had a sword and above all c- he was found not guilty of murder (on the grounds he could read the Bible in latin which technically made him clergy and technically meant he could not be tried in a non church court).

This is the man who so annoyed King James I so much that he was arrested and at once point the king said he would chop his nose off (all because Ben kept writing in VERY funny jokes abouts the SCots).

In any other nation on EARTH Ben Johnson would be venerated as THGE national playwrite and held high as a true hero. Johnson however had a prolem. He was writing at the same time as this guy from Startford...

So even if he really WAS Tom Baker, how one EARTH is he a crackpot?

"So even if he really WAS Tom Baker"

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Well, given that in Sandman Neil Gaiman made a desperate case for his Mary Sue character being the true author of Shakespeares works, I don't think it unreasonable to suppose that any number of immortal beings were trotting about Elizabethan England penning prose.

[(Anonymous)]

I've met Tom Baker (gratutious name-dropping done)and attest that even in real life, he gives the impression of not being of this world. He is an utter legend, but quite what universe he is from, I'm not sure. However, to be fair, I think neither is he.

I'm confused though, why have you included a painting of Colin Baker as your last picture? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colin_Carrot.JPG

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[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You've been away a while!