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  1. 30th Aug 2007, 10:11 AM #1
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    Default X-Fandom: the Search for the new leading light of Doctor Who fandom

    *with tongue firmly in cheek*
    With Shaun Lyon resigning as the head of Outpost Gallifrey, we Doctor Who fans are now left without a Leading Light in Fandom.

    But who should suceed him? Who should be fandom's new Leading Light? What qulaities should this fan have? And why shouldn't you all vote for me?

    Make your nominations here!

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  2. 30th Aug 2007, 10:28 AM #2
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    There are very few high-profile 'superfans' left who aren't working on the show!

    Does anyone know who the head of the DWAS is?
    Pity. I have no understanding of the word. It is not registered in my vocabulary bank. EXTERMINATE!
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  3. 30th Aug 2007, 10:47 AM #3
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    BEECH!

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  4. 30th Aug 2007, 10:57 AM #4
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    Is this the same as the last time he resigned and announced the end of the site, or is this a different thing?

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  5. 30th Aug 2007, 12:10 PM #5
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    Same thing, different month! It seems potentially more lasting this time though.

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  6. 30th Aug 2007, 12:24 PM #6
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    I nominate Transvamp to be the new producer - no doubt he'll sack all the cast and crew, move the production centre to somewhere in the Home Counties and exhume the corpse of Jon Pertwee to take over as the Doctor. To explain why the time paradoxes, inconsistencies, and the horrid, raddled appearance of the decaying skeleton are better than that rubbish starring David Tennant, Transvamp produces a nine hundred page programme synopsis that is so dull that the BBC would rather commision the programme than finish reading it.

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  7. 30th Aug 2007, 12:44 PM #7
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    Speaking of DWAS, I have very little memory of when or why I did it but I seem to have rejoined. It's rubbish. It used to have a decent A4 magazine but this has become a tatty little A5 fanzine. It is quite literally evolution in reverse. So no one involved in that once adequate organisation can lay claim to be a leading light. Not unless fandom wants to shrink to half its current size.
    Dennis, Francois, Melba and Smasher are competing to see who can wine and dine Lola Whitecastle and win the contract to write her memoirs. Can Dennis learn how to be charming? Can Francois concentrate on anything else when food is on the table? Will Smasher keep his temper under control?

    If only the 28th century didn't keep popping up to get in Dennis's way...

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  8. 30th Aug 2007, 12:59 PM #8
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    I wonder if there's room for a new DWAS - a kind of Unofficial Doctor Who Fan Club. An A4 fanzine with 'interesting' and 'humorous' articles shouldn't be too hard to produce, plus a badge and a branded set of underwear.

    UDWFC. Pronounced 'Udwerfoc'.
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  9. 30th Aug 2007, 1:23 PM #9
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    Baysan Tulu would make an awesome & cool leading light of fandom.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob McCow View Post
    There are very few high-profile 'superfans' left who aren't working on the show!

    Does anyone know who the head of the DWAS is?

    I'd also like to nominate Tranny!


    I think that Anthony Weiner dude (pops up on News 24 sometimes) is the head of the DWAS, isn't he?

    Not to be confused with:

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  11. 30th Aug 2007, 1:27 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ant Williams View Post
    BEECH!
    Ha!
    What's he got left to offer now his conventions are all done with after the travesty of Panopticon 2003?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Perry Vale View Post
    Baysan Tulu would make an awesome & cool leading light of fandom.
    He'd give 10/10 for effort all the time!

    And he'd get them to bring McGann back for a multi-Doctor story.
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    He's no good though, as he doesn't accept the new series. Our new Leading Light needs to love ALL of Doctor Who!

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  14. 30th Aug 2007, 4:12 PM #14
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    I'd like to nominate Michael Clifton, the great fan fiction writer on the Beeb boards who never used to finish his
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    It has to be Levine. He already has his own DW website named after him...
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  16. 30th Aug 2007, 6:22 PM #16
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    Mike Gatting, with his Doctor Who-taping 'missus' as his assistant. Go up into the guard's van, Mike, there's no-one to put the mockers on it this time!

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    I don't really feel the need for my hobby* to have a "boss"


    *hobby probably isn't the right word. Interest. Thing.
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    Given that the Vervoid has lots of good Who stuff in it now, could we have Lissa as an invisible leading light? She could not appear in newspapers and on TV.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Lewis View Post
    I'd like to nominate Michael Clifton, the great fan fiction writer on the Beeb boards who never used to finish his.....
    ...boyfriend?
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    Coco-Pops?

    Milk was too chocolatey.
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    ...viewings of Timelash?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob McCow View Post
    There are very few high-profile 'superfans' left who aren't working on the show!

    Does anyone know who the head of the DWAS is?
    My leading light has always been that superfan that is P-Bal & he knows the head of DWAS intimately.
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    he knows the head of DWAS intimately.
    Oh my!

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    P-Bal does their fanzine covers, you know.
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    P-Bal does their fanzine covers, you know
    Is that like 'Debbie Does Dallas'?
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