Hi - newbie here

[Emperor Dalek]

What you going to do? Sucker me to death?!

You need to discipline your daughter... everyone knows its not the plunger thingy that does the EX-TER-MIN-ATE but the ray gun McDangle... I dunno kids of today!!

Really Goldie, you do need to keep with the times. Please go and watch 'Dalek' again more closely this time, then report for 10 minutes in the agony booth.

Yet again, this is why I am the Emperor.

[TheDoctor]

Yet again, this is why I am the Emperor.

I thought it was because nobody else wanted the job?

[Gold Dalek]

Externally, Daleks resemble man-sized pepper shakers, with a single mechanical eyestalk in a rotating dome, a gunstalk containing a directed energy weapon (or "death ray"), and a telescoping robot arm. Usually, the arm is fitted with a device for manipulation that, to the amusement of generations of viewers, resembles a plunger, but various episodes have shown Daleks whose arms end in a tray, a mechanical claw, or other specialised equipment like flamethrowers.

In Dalek, the plunger was used to kill by crushing a human skull.- but that is not it's primary purpose is it?

One lousy episode and you're saying the plunger is a WMD ... Emperor's are not what they used to be

Before Fleetwood dives in - Emperor's / Emperors are interchangable in Dalek-land

[Davros]

I thought it was because nobody else wanted the job?

I applied. Got the job for a while too, until Sylvester McCoy (spit) took exception to it and blew my space cruiser up.

[amx]

what on earth has this thread turned into!?!?!

[Cyber Controller]

what on earth has this thread turned into!?!?!

You belong to us. You will be like us.

[Fleetwood]

In Dalek, the plunger was used to kill by crushing a human skull.- but that is not it's[I][U] primary purpose is it?

One lousy episode and you're saying the plunger is a WMD ... Emperor's are not what they used to be

Before Fleetwood dives in - Emperor's / Emperors are interchangable in Dalek-land

OK, but it's "its".

[Denny]

As you can see, this forum is the natural habitat for high minded, highly educated pseudo intellectuals who just happen to be in IT or business-related contracting. Contributors here prefer to discuss business ethics, the state of the economy, politics, high art, philosophy and black holes - cosmic ones that is - rather than indulge in a lot of pointless, timewasting tittle tattle and banter, evident on so many forums.

Correct spelling and grammar is essential here if you want to be taken seriously. We tend to discourage the use of emoticons too (which we never refer to as 'smilies' as we regard that description as a deviation from their original intent - to make forum contributors smile). We never smile on here.

Recent high minded debates you might like to contribute to include:

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'Is Tony Blair a ******?'

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[DaveB]

You belong to us. You will be like us.

"One of us! One of us!"

[Emperor Dalek]

Makes you all nostalgic for those Cornish farmers, doesn't it?