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who is your? mine is tom baker..

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Neck and neck - David Tennant and Matt Smith as modern Doctors. I too loved Tom Baker, with his scarf. ... Memorable.

@manfromatlantis said:

who is your? mine is tom baker..

Splendid chap - all of them.

Christopher Eccleston, he brought a rugged masculine edge to the Doctor, but still had that whimsical touch. It was a shame he was so short lived.

@John1990 said:

Christopher Eccleston, he brought a rugged masculine edge to the Doctor, but still had that whimsical touch. It was a shame he was so short lived.

I'm not sure I agree with you about Christopher Eccleston's "rugged masculine edge", but I do agree that it's a shame he was so short-lived - as were a few others too.

That's fair enough, but what's with the sneer quote?

@John1990 said:

That's fair enough, but what's with the sneer quote?

Pardon? A sneer quote?

I have not attributed a negative connotation or emotion to any part of my previous post, so why have you?

It may not have been intended, but the quote unquote came across as a sneer. I take your word for it that it wasn't.

@John1990 said:

It may not have been intended, but the quote unquote came across as a sneer. I take your word for it that it wasn't.

It was merely intended to help specify which part of your previous post I agreed with and which part I did not agree with. In my personal experience, it is a perfectly acceptable and reasonably widely used tool of communication.

However, on a platform where the primary form of communication is via plain text messaging, it is easy to misinterpret or misunderstand the intentions of others.

@manfromatlantis said:

who is your? mine is tom baker..

Tom Baker, then Matt Smith

David Tennant

But it was Christopher Eccleston that that got me watching the 'modern' version. I always thought the 'old' Doctor Who was just so bad it was laughable. Didn't care for Matt Smith and since I do not have cable any longer I haven't had the chance to see Peter Capaldi's Doctor.

Christopher Eccleston. I especially love the episodes where Capt Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) popped in. He was fun.

Anybody know what happened to the posts (can't remember the posters name, I think triumvirate? was part of the name) that listed their opinion on most of the Doctors?They were posted sometime last night, there were problems with it posting up. I received 6 notifications in my email before I could actually read them here.

Hey Brat. Yeah i couldn't post them up for some reason. I kept getting an error and the formatting was all screwed up. Not exactly sure what it was but i gave up.

But my favorite of all time is Pertwee. And from the newer ones Tennant.

@The First Triumvirate said:

Hey Brat. Yeah i couldn't post them up for some reason. I kept getting an error and the formatting was all screwed up. Not exactly sure what it was but i gave up.

But my favorite of all time is Pertwee. And from the newer ones Tennant.

But I did see them. There were 2 of them. Have you notified someone? I just thought it was really weird, because between 7:00 pm (pacific) & 7:30 pm I kept getting notifications (6 in all) of new posts. I was finally able to read them about 7:30 and then today they weren't here? Strange.

@ant-mac said:

@John1990 said:

It may not have been intended, but the quote unquote came across as a sneer. I take your word for it that it wasn't.

It was merely intended to help specify which part of your previous post I agreed with and which part I did not agree with. In my personal experience, it is a perfectly acceptable and reasonably widely used tool of communication.

However, on a platform where the primary form of communication is via plain text messaging, it is easy to misinterpret or misunderstand the intentions of others.

I was not bringing your grammar into question. The use of inverted commas over one specified point can denote mockery. Imagine this translated into a face to face dialogue. How would you voice your comment? With a sarcastic inflection? Would you involve hand gestures to indicate inverted commas? Perhaps not, but that is how it would be read aloud naturally. If you had put "he brought a rugged, masculine edge to the doctor" (as opposed to solely my description of the actor) in inverted commas it would have made the world of difference.

You have a good point about it being all too easy to misinterpret the intentions of others on text based communication platforms, thus an innocent comment was mistaken for a subtle form of mockery. Such is the complexity and nuance of the English language. Thank you for clarifying, I won't derail any further.

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