I have just changed my location on my profile. As usual, at this time of day, my mind started to wander, nay, saunter, or even, perhaps, sashay off on a completely random track, like those 'desire paths' that myriad feet use to cut corners, find the quickest point from alpha to omega, and that after years, find themselves the best path to use. I found myself thinking that I do tend to remember dialogue from things that was written as a throwaway line, to add flavour and piquancy to a verbal exchange, but nothing more. For instance, in 'Buffy', a character was introduced to Angel, and on shaking hands, says something like: "Whoa! Cold hands!", to which a slightly jealous Xander says, almost inaudibly: "You're not wrong." Stuff like that. Well, my location is one of those. It comes from classic Doctor Who, more precisely, the 1973 story featuring The Doctor's third incarnation, 'Carnival Of Monsters'. In it, an alien showman, Vorg, has a machine called a Miniscope, which contains miniaturised alien lifeforms, each trapped in a time loop, which means that they perform the same actions over and over again, and can be observed on a 3-D screen, by paying a small fee, a bit like a jukebox. The Miniscope contains Ogrons, Cybermen, Humans, and, accidentally, the TARDIS, containing The Doctor and Jo Grant. The Miniscope's main attraction, though, are huge, omnivorous (a whole spaceship, crew and reactors are mentioned as being eaten once) creatures called Drashigs. Vorg, at one point, is asked where they come from. He mutters that he's not sure, but it could be 'One of the moons of Grundle'. So, not all planets have sexy names in the Doctor Who universe - there's the twin planet to Raxacoricofallapatorius, which is... Clom, and there is a planet called Grundle. Which amused me in 1973, and still does now, to the point of not forgetting it. Oh, by the way, the Drashigs DO get loose in the machine and fuck shit up. Just thought you'd like to know, if you hadn't already guessed.
