One week to go before we depart on our trip to England, and at the moment we are still planning to do the trip. In preparation, I asked an English co-worker if she'd like me to bring anything back for her - crisps, chocolate bars, cheap tights from Primark*, anything like that.
She thought for a moment and asked for jelly babies. Sadly, in spite of her English origins, she was unaware that the offer of a jelly baby was the characteristic conversational gambit of Tom Baker's 4th Doctor**. Fortunately someone has already created collated evidence of this very English approach to breaking the ice:
- Sid
P.S. It turns out that my co-worker had never seen Tom Baker as the Doctor, arguably the most popular of the portrayals of the last Time Lord - sic transit gloria mundi.
* As recommended by another English employee when Karli and I were in London for our honeymoon.
** And, apparently, a number of other Doctors at least once.
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