God sorry I don’t normally do that [needs more tea] but yes people do generally make that mistake ..I wonder if it’s just an automatic finger-jerk thing: s-t-o-n—-and ‘e’ just seems to follow unthinkingly?
You pulled me up for this last week DFB. What made it truly cringetastic was the fact that I’d googled him before posting because I wanted to know what age he was when he played The Doctor.
I blame the enormous cloud called Bernie Ecclestone which hung over my football club of choice for several years..
RubyBlue says
Is that Chris Ecclestone? (Oh yes, just seen your tag.) Very nicely done.
DogFacedBoy says
people (not just you Miss RB) seem to have a real blind spot with Doctor No.9’s last name. Is Ecclestone a more common spelling of his last name?
Beany says
Ecclescake is the more common spelling.
RubyBlue says
God sorry I don’t normally do that [needs more tea] but yes people do generally make that mistake ..I wonder if it’s just an automatic finger-jerk thing: s-t-o-n—-and ‘e’ just seems to follow unthinkingly?
DogFacedBoy says
No need to apologise , I just (rather sadly) notice it a lot. Like Peter Davidson.
retropath2 says
So it’s Peter Davidsone…..
Well, I never, after all this time etc etc.
Sewer Robot says
You pulled me up for this last week DFB. What made it truly cringetastic was the fact that I’d googled him before posting because I wanted to know what age he was when he played The Doctor.
I blame the enormous cloud called Bernie Ecclestone which hung over my football club of choice for several years..
Rigid Digit says
Bernie Ecclestone played Doctor Who?
Although he is a shoo-in for the part of Andy Warhol in the upcoming Velvet Underground film (if there is one?)
DogFacedBoy says
Bernie is busy inside R2D2 for Star Wars: The Force Awakens
DogFacedBoy says
It’s a nerd version of spotting misplaced possessive apostrophes on shop signs
Beany says
Sorted are kid.
DogFacedBoy says
Anyone else admire the “faulty tracking” VHS effect they got on the archive footage? It’s those little touches that really make this concept