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Re: [ST] Ride like what Steve?



OOPs  I made the same mistake Steve.  Sorry, Thought it was a phone booth also,  But then saw this post and then looked around on the web and saw you are very correct.  It is a blue police box.

At 04:55 AM 11/8/02 -0500, you wrote:
>In a previous email, Jack Hays stated:
>> devil dawg wrote: Why ride Red like a British telephone booth when you can
>> ride Blue like the Tardis?
>> 
>> Did you say Turtle Steve:-)
>
>Jack,
>In your original email you wrote "A proper British Red Time Machine." 
>Upon reading that I felt compelled to correct you.
>
>Dr. Who's time machine, the T.A.R.D.I.S. (see note), may have appeared 
>like a proper British Red Phone booth, when it was actually a police 
>box. A proper British police box is black. When they first shot the show 
>they felt that the black box did not look right on black and white 
>television. They then painted it blue thus assuring the world over that 
>a "proper British Time Machine" is blue.
>

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