Doctor Who Nestle episode #9
Episode 9 of the 1970s Doctor Who serial on Nestle wrappers.
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Doctor Who Nestle episode #8
The Third Doctor stars in the eighth installment of the Nestle wrapper series.
What's the difference between an MD and a DO?
What's the difference between an MD and a DO? When you see a family medicine physician at Prevea, you may notice that they have either an "MD" or a "DO" listed after their name. These initials refer to the doctor's credentials – they indicate the type of medical school the doctor attended and the licensing exam they took to become a doctor. •MD stands for "Medical Doctor," and is the most common type of degree earned by doctors who practice medicine in the United States. •DO stands for "Doctor of Osteopathy," and refers to a doctor who practices medicine whose medical school training included a focus on the muscular and skeletal systems to treat problems throughout the body. Both MD's and DO's attend medical school and take exams to become licensed, practicing physicians. In general, DO's tend to focus on the whole body when treating medical problems, and focus on your muscles and bones to confirm a diagnosis they make. ...
Doctor Who Nestle episode #5
The fifth installment of the Doctor Who story on UK Nestle wrappers. Starring the Third Doctor!
Guardians of Galaxy Dancing Groot Pop! Vinyl Bobble Figure
Guardians of Galaxy Dancing Groot Pop! Vinyl Bobble Figure : From the Guardians of the Galaxy film comes this Guardians of the Galaxy Dancing Groot Pop! Vinyl Bobble Figure! The Guardians of the Galaxy has been around since 1969, and with a movie finally made, Marvel gives the superhero team the Funko Pop! Vinyl treatment! This Guardians of the Galaxy Dancing Groot Pop! Vinyl Bobble Figure can dance along to your "Awesome Mix" on a desk or on your car's dashboard with his bobbling head! The Dancing Groot Pop! Vinyl figure makes an essential addition to any Guardians of the Galaxy fan's collection! Ages 14 and up.
Get 42-47 miles per gallon!
Even back in 1953, we were still complaining about MPG. Fascinating that with all the technological advancements over the past 100 years, getting 42-47 MPG still seems like a fantasy story. Perhaps this is why the ad appeared in the science fiction magazine Rocket Stories.
Doctor Who Nestle episode #4
Doctor Who's amazing storyline, only on the wrappers of Nestle chocolate in the UK. Starring the Third Doctor.
Peter Davison Fifth Doctor Who
Peter Davison is the Fifth Doctor Who in this stylish pose out of the old Marvel comic book.
Some brief thoughts on The Last Starfighter
The Last Starfighter --what a great movie. It still is.
You could have named something “Star Turd” in the early- to mid-80s and I would have loved it. ( Spacehunter 3-D , anyone?)
I like how it approached video games--there was always a story. In fact, the simplest games had the best stories. Today's games are too much--no imagination. It was more fun to think of the backstory while you were playing an old game.
When he looked at the mobile of the planets--that was just a perfect cinematic moment.
The character Otis says, “When your chance comes, you gotta grab on with both hands and hold on tight.” If I were ever approached, I’d be gone.
Wil Wheaton was in it, billed as “Louis’ Friend.”
I still think they’re A+ special effects. And I just love Grig and his laugh.
To be approached, taken into space…I mean, I’ve been dreaming about this since I was born. This movie, comin...
Battlestar Galactica episodes "Lost Planet of the Gods"
Episode 4: "Lost Planet of the Gods--Part One" Apollo is going to marry Serina (played by Jane Seymour), the mother of Boxy. Again--all they are worried about marriage on the second storyline, the fourth episode, after the utter annihilation of mankind? There is a void in space. No light or stars penetrate. I was extremely curious because I remember this from an episode of Star Trek: Voyager and I looked it up. Sure enough, it is a real phenomenon. Boomer and Jolly, two fighter pilots, contract a disease out on patrol and then skip decontamination to go to the bachelor party! The entire regiment of fighter pilots gets infected. The doctor says they have to go back to the Cylon-infested planet to find out what it is. So they recruit women pilots. You would just think, number one, that they have more to worry about, and they just would not skip decontamination. Episode 5: "Lost Planet of the Gods--Part Two"
This episode is amazingly sexist about the fact ...
Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine"
"The Doomsday Machine" Season 2, episode 6. We meet Matt Decker, captain of the Constellation , the father of Will Decker from Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Kirk is stuck on the Constellation and there is a pretty good pulling-rank battle with Spock and Decker. The "battle" with Decker makes Kirk's handling of Will Decker in The Motion Picture completely sensical now, as Kirk was always giving breaks to sons, other crew, like the kid in "Obsession" that reminded him of himself. Spock says, "Severe casualties on decks 3 and 4" with that unemotional air, but it was completely not Kirk's fault as Decker chased the machine. At one point, it is funny that a thing that can eat whole planets, whole solar systems, is troubled by an explosion of a shuttlecraft, and further extinguished by the 97-megaton explosion of the USS Constellation . So if this thing managed to get to the colony on Rigel, and there were any ships in orbit or on the...
The Amazing Future of the year 2000!
When I was a boy, I knew that I would turn 27 as the year 2000 was starting. When you're a kid, 27 is old and a forever away. We thought, honest to goodness, that we would be living in Moon colonies by then. Comics had all sorts of predictions. But like the novel 1984 , it just got the year wrong--it may still come true. Hey, next year, 2015, we should have Hoverboards and flying cars like in Back to the Future , right?
Free Dungeons & Dragons download! Free DND download!
Wizards is currently letting the public download the Core Rules for both Player and Dungeon Master at its website .
A review of The Paleo Manifesto by John Durant
The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health
By John Durant
My wife has recently discovered a new inner light into her own personal fitness. She’s eating right and working out like crazy. She took me to one of her leg-day workouts and almost made me start crying.
One of the reasons of her success she attributes to some of the little recipes for the Paleo Diet. When I asked what that meant, she started giving me tidbits about the lifestyle, in part to what she has learned on author John Durant’s website, HunterGatherer.com. So I was very interested in finding out a bit more information just to see what was making my wife so fit and healthy. I could go no further than his book The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health .
However, this book is almost too heavy for just a layperson wanting more information. The word Manifesto is absolutely correct: It is almost everything you would ever in a million years want to know about this t...
Unproduced action figures for The Black Hole
When the Disney movie The Black Hole came out, it was riding the wave of science fiction movie revitalization started by Star Wars. Late 1970s produced all sorts of movies with anything to do with the stars and space. And no matter how much I personally like the movie of The Black Hole, I know critically that it is kind of boring. Truly. The robots, I love them wholeheartedly, but they are barely disguised ripoffs of R2-D2 and C-3PO. Yes, I love them, but that does not hide that fact. However, the line of action figures for Star Wars is STILL producing megabucks 40 years later. They wanted, back in the 70s, to cash in on their own property, but due to the lukewarm response from the public, most of the toys never came out. Here are some of the toys that never came out in America...
Doctor Who Nestle serial story on the wrappers!
During the tenure of the Third Doctor, Nestle in the UK had a little promotion. A new serialized story on the wrappers! They are sort of like trading cards! Here is the introduction ad with the first episode. More episodes to come.
Star Trek episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
Season 1, episode 3 "Where No Man Has Gone Before" Another one of those omnipotent-forces Trek episodes that Roddenberry enjoyed so much as one of the crewmen, a Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell, gets possessed by some kind of energy that turns him into a god-like creature. Interesting tidbits in this episode: the Enterprise tries to break the edge of the galaxy; early Spock where he must say, "irritating--one of your human emotions"; Spock talks about "one of [his] ancestors" marrying an Earth woman, not his mother, as Kirk defeats him at 3D chess; no opening credit dialogue, you know, the "Space--the final frontier" shpiel; there's no Doctor McCoy yet; the tombstone says "James R. Kirk" and not James T(iberius) Kirk. Spock reports casualties of 9 dead as they hit the galaxy's edge, so that's nine more to add to Kirk's total. The fascinating part of this episode is the fact that Kirk and Spock pretty much condemn Mitchell...
Brainstorm beanie
I think I would still buy this...a beanie that lights up whenever you get an idea. Wonder if the light would ever go off...
Star Trek episode "The Ultimate Computer"
"The Ultimate Computer" Season 2, episode 24. This is a really great episode that has Dr. Daystrom's M-5 computer being tested on the Enterprise . It has been designed to basically run a starship. Commodore Wesley tells Kirk he can "sit back and let the machine do the work." Prophetic words, indeed. Can a computer do everything a man can do? Kirk laments the fact that computers may make even him unessential, quoting that Masefield poem, "All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by," and Trekkies remember Kirk quoting that in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier with Spock correcting Bones on who the quote comes from--McCoy misattributes it to Melville. The M-5 goes crazy, destroys a robotic ore freighter and even vaporizes one of Kirk's red-shirted ensigns as they start trying to turn it off. The M-5 then proceeds into the scheduled wargames but takes them seriously, attacking the four Federation ships. At one of Wesley's reports the...
"Young love is nasty...blecchh!" Words of wisdom from Madison Butcher.
August 17, 2014 at 02:13PM via Facebook
Still waiting for this. And on that day, I will be throwing a party.
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Doctor Who Sugar Smacks badges
In the early 1970s, Kellogg's in the United Kingdom had a Doctor Who giveaway. Jon Pertwee, the Third Doctor, was even featured on the box of Sugar Smacks. Badges included Roger Delgado's The Master, the Brigadier, and Jo Grant. Wish I could find these at a yard sale!