Horror of Pokémon by Staff Writers Household Pets As Mutated Gladiators
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The Wall of Lies Number 143 Newsletter established 1991, club formed June first 1980 The newsletter of the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club Inc., also known as SFSA MFinal FINAL Adelaide, July--August 2013 WEATHER: Absolute zero Free Horror of Pokémon by staff writers Household pets as mutated gladiators. A totally accurate and above reproach internet meme has lead to much experi- mentation on helpless animals. If you add a little fire to your cat it will apparently become a beautiful fluffy neo-soldier called Flareon. Feeding it nothing but lawn clippings produces a Leafeon, while some electricity makes it a Jolteon. Locking it in a freezer overnight will turn your cat into a Glaceon and a small amount of drowning gives Vaporeon. Subjecting it to severe psychic trauma produces Espeon and raising it in a totally dark environment devoid of any light, stimulus or hope of escape makes an Umbreon. The darkest and most sinister cat of all. So far this and all the other experiments have proved the effect unrepeatable, leaving a mass of cats, dogs, O ut mice, rats, snakes, doves, seals, pigeons, monkeys, t N No ow ducks, cattle, horses, penguins, foxes, fish, plants, ! Kitten plus flame equals insects, tortoises and people maimed, dead and often Flareon. silly looking. Smith leaves, farewells show and fans by staff writers Three series on, Doctor Who title role vacates again. Surprising few, Matt Smith announced on 1 June that he would be leaving Doctor Who in 2013. This was immediately preceded Chameleon Factor # 80 by erroneous claims that official sources had him staying for series eight. While in Detroit filming How To Catch a Monster, O u S t Smith made a video thanking his audience and co-workers. So on While remaining mute he drops a series of cards with messages n! written upon them, in the style of Bob Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues. This was uploaded to the Internet on 21 June. Production concluded on the as yet unnamed November 2013 50th anniversary special on 5 May, but Smith is yet to finish with the role by way of the following (also untitled) Christmas special. Production on the first production block of series eight is due to begin in September. The identity of his successor has been the subject of much speculation, however this will not be John Hurt. Matt Smith’s thank you. Introduced in the last episode of series seven (The Name of the Doctor) as an unknown incarnation of the character, he is apparently only appearing in this episode SFSA magazine # 30 and the anniversary special. q Continued Page 2 Murder evidence Tor Johnson, defies odds, page 2. superstar, page 4. Smith leaves, farewells show and fans q from Page 1 A new missing episode hoax was publicised on 13 June 2013 by website Bleeding Cool. This claimed that 90 (of 106) missing episodes had been returned from Africa. On 18 June Phillip Morris of archive service TIEA was implicated when it was found he had shipped three tons of film prints from Africa in 2011. Morris denounced the claim in an online statement and has told A S The Wall of Lies “I'll believe it when I see it.” On 19 June Philip Fleming, the A N Head of Communications at BBC Worldwide, said: “There are always rumours : e … however, we cannot confirm any new finds.” In 1985 The Time Meddler was c r found in Nigeria, but sales and transport records are incomplete. It is believed u Galaxy 4 to The Smugglers were held by SLTV in Sierra Leone until the sta- o S tion’s civil war destruction in 1999, with the loss of 22 still missing episodes. ABC2 has begun repeating Doctor Who twice a day, while SCI-FI and July 2012 Hubble image of the Pluto system. Nickelodeon have exhausted their rights. Eleven began Torchwood from 27 Long exposures were required to discern the May. The run could continue to the free to air premiere of Miracle Day, but the dim satellites over Pluto’s reflected light. K-9 station admits there are no guarantees and still no plans for . UKTV plays Sky Watch McCoy Who episodes through July on Sunday afternoons with Paradise Towers, Remembrance of the Daleks, The Greatest Show in the Galaxy, The Pluto moons P4/P5 named Curse of Fenric and Survival. Preservation Issues TWO NEWLY DISCOVERED moons of Pluto have been named after the lord of the underworld’s dog and river. Aykroyd’s career survives murder bomb Kerberos was discovered in June 2011 and Styx in by staff writers July 2012. Both required multiple long term exposures Contacts with the reflected light from Styx estimated to be THE CALGARY POLICE investigated a 100,000th that of Pluto. They were informally referred suspicious find when a sanitation to as P4 and P5 pending nomenclature by the Jamie Stidiford worker thought he discovered a International Astronomical Union. (President) snuff film at the rubbish dump. One Mark Showalter lead the team which found the new image showed Dan Aykroyd holding [email protected] moons, and proposes a common origin for all the a knife, crouched over a torso with satellites, "This system began when something big hit several stab wounds. Contacted Pluto billions of years ago -- it created this big cloud of Martin Dunne through his agency, it was deter- debris, most of which condensed to form Charon." The mined the film was a damaged (The Wall of Lies editor) smaller moons orbit in near resonances with Charon, 35mm print of 1990 bomb Loose the largest and nearest to Pluto, with Styx at a ratio of [email protected] Cannons. Website TMZ claimed 1:3, Nix at 1:4, Kerberos at 1:5 and Hydra at 1:6. Aykroyd quipped “The movie In February 2012 an internet poll was held to suggest should have been left in the landfill Tammy Vogel names for the IAU to choose from. William Shatner where it belongs.” suggested Romulus and Vulcan, but these were (Magazine editor) Rubbish dumps are sometimes struck down as Romulus was already taken (asteroid [email protected] nominated at potential film recovery 10386 Romulus), and Vulcan (the winner) had nothing sources. However modern landfill to do with the underworld. Cerberus and Styx came procedures involve compacting second and third, with the Greek spelling of Kerberos Postal address: material through shredding, with selected to avoid confusion with 1865 Cerberus. PO Box 870 forces exceeding 4000 PSI (about Charon was discovered in 1978 and Nix and Hydra 28 megapascals), equivalent to the North Adelaide were found by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2005. pressure at the bottom of the Imaging of the Pluto system has been ongoing with SA 5006 Australia Pacific Ocean. In 1980 a fragment Hubble in anticipation for the fly by of New Horizons in of The Story of the Kelly Gang July 2015. Rings, ring arcs or other debris may dam- (1906) was returned by an anony- Mailing list age the probe, with the discovery of new satellites a mous source who claimed to have bonus. The probe is intended to then fly on and subscription: found it on top of a rubbish tip in encounter a Kuiper Belt object. [email protected] Melbourne. This is a publication of SFSA: the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club Inc., a non profit organisation. No attempt has been made to supersede the copyright of any holders of trademark or copyrighted 20/7, 17/8, 21/9 images, text, or information. $5.00 $4.00 Whilst every care has been taken to ensure that the contents of the newsletter is accurate at the time of printing, SFSA cannot accept any liability for inaccura- cies that may appear. Meeting details are subject to change at short notice. 2 www.sfsa.org.au July-August 2013 Printed by the Federal Printing House Club August 3 Pub meeting 17.30 Membership Venue: Earl of Leicester Annual membership rates are $20. Transmission schedule August 17 General meeting 15.00 This entitles you to one year’s subscription August-September 2013 Venue: Adelaide High School to the club’s publications: bimonthly The Wall of Lies and SFSA magazine, and the November 23 2013 Details TBA Doctor Who Monday to Friday 19.40 Doctor Who themed yearbook Chameleon Help us celebrate the Repeated ~ midnight ABC2 Factor. Also included are discounted entry 50th anniversary of Dr Who Torchwood 20.30 Mondays on Eleven fees to SFSA meetings, and discounts at Box Factory Community Centre various stores around Adelaide. ~ Countrycide 1/7 59 Regent St South, Adelaide ~ Rose 4/7 Archive ~ The End of the World 5/7 Discounts ~ The Unquiet Dead 8/7 ~ Greeks Bearing Gifts 8/7 Pulp Fiction Chamelleon Factor 12, ~ Aliens of London 9/7 10% off comics and graphic novels August 1983 ~ World War Three 10/7 The only confirmed item of news ~ Dalek 11/7 Events is the new companion ... is ~ The Long Game 12/7 Nicola Bryant. Only 21 and just ~ Father's Day 15/7 In May we played Cards Against Humanity. out of American drama school, ~ They Keep Killing Suzie 15/7 although she is actually English. ~ The Empty Child 16/7 In June we elected a new committee at our ~ The Doctor Dances 17/7 annual general meeting. Attendance fees [Nicola was already 23 when ~ Boom Town 18/7 have increased one dollar and annual this was printed and had never ~ Bad Wolf 19/7 membership is now $20. been to America.] ~ The Parting of the Ways 22/7 ~ Random Shoes 22/7 NEW COMMITTEE: ~ The Christmas Invasion 23/7 President: Jamie ~ New Earth 24/7 Secretary: Martin ~ Tooth and Claw 25/7 Treasurer: Tammy ~ School Reunion 26/7 General: Brenton, David R., Melanie, Ross ~ The Girl in the Fireplace 29/7 ~ Out of Time 29/7 OLD COMMITTEE: ~ Rise of the Cybermen 30/7 President: Jamie ~ The Age Of Steel 31/7 Secretary: Martin ~ The Idiot's Lantern 1/8 Treasurer: Tammy ~ The Impossible Planet 2/8 General: Brenton, David I., David R., Tim ~ The Satan Pit 5/8 ~ Combat 5/8 ~ Love & Monsters 6/8 The Wall of Lies ~ Fear Her 7/8 Issue 83 Established 1991 ~ Army of Ghosts 8/8 The news sheet of SFSA incorporating the South Australian Doctor Who Fan Club Inc.