Why There Should Ultimately Be 49 Doctors
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gnomiScene: mabfan and gnomi are preparing to count the Omer on Friday night.
gnomi: Last night we counted ten.*
mabfan: So tonight we count the new Doctor.
gnomi: Yes. Tonight we count Matt Smith.
After relating this tomaric23, I refined our counting. Thus, last night was Matt Smith, which is Sylvester McCoy and Tom Baker of the Omer.**
* For more on the Omer, see here. By tradition we say the previous night's count as a reminder rather than that day's in case that would qualify as the day's counting.
** There is a disagreement in the Talmud as to whether we should count the days or the weeks for the Omer. To resolve the disagreement, we do both, in the form of "This is x day which is y weeks and n days of the Omer."
mabfan and gnomi are preparing to count the Omer on Friday night.gnomi: Last night we counted ten.*mabfan: So tonight we count the new Doctor. gnomi: Yes. Tonight we count Matt Smith. After relating this to
maric23, I refined our counting. Thus, last night was Matt Smith, which is Sylvester McCoy and Tom Baker of the Omer.*** For more on the Omer, see here. By tradition we say the previous night's count as a reminder rather than that day's in case that would qualify as the day's counting.
** There is a disagreement in the Talmud as to whether we should count the days or the weeks for the Omer. To resolve the disagreement, we do both, in the form of "This is x day which is y weeks and n days of the Omer."
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Date: 2010-04-11 02:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-11 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-11 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-11 11:26 am (UTC)So what else could we count by? Chemical elements, states of the Union, .... This could actually be quite fun!
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Date: 2010-04-11 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-11 11:48 pm (UTC)You might also count it by the first two seasons of the original Star Trek, in which case Friday would have been The Menagerie, Part 1; Saturday would have been the Menagerie, Part 2; and so on. IMDB has a complete episode list for your counting pleasure. You can thank me later. :-)
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Date: 2010-04-12 01:22 am (UTC)IMO, the Doctor - sfira thing would work better with seven doctors.
So tonight, when we counted 13, in the text that we say after the counting we would talk about repairing the damage we did in the space-time continuum via Colin Baker she'b'Patrick Troughton.
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Date: 2010-04-12 02:31 am (UTC)