Yup. Couldn’t have said it better myself:
And it’s a t-shirt, too!
Dare to dream.
How Rebecca found out about this before me is irksome. But tip o’ the plunger and whisk to her anyway.
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August 23rd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Hey Daleks can elevate!
Of course, they don’t have to. Real Daleks level the building.
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:19 am
“ELEVATE!” indeed
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 am
Daleks didn’t develop the ability to elevate until the mid/late 80′s… In classic Who, this fact was used many times by the Doctor to evade them. It was always a major source of humor for fans. I’m placing my order now!!
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 am
BA, one good reason for living in the UK:
http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/Shopping/ProductDetails.aspx?Product=48189&Store=3
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
“EXTERMINATE STAIRWELL!!!”
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Hmm. Why is some sort of siege tower armed with a plunger, a crutch, and a pencil, sitting at the bottom of some stairs? Am I too dumb to understand this one? Oh, it’s a Dr. Who thing.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:04 pm
@PG.
Not true actually, The Doctor only used this to evade them once in the story Destiny of the Daleks, and in that case he climbed up a rope.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
And for each of these you buy:
$1 will be donated to skeptic Robert Lancaster, the tireless fighter who tackles and evil greater than Daleks, even!
Rich
August 23rd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Ahh, stairs, the natural enemy of Daleks.
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hmmm. Maybe someone should convince Nicholas Briggs to bring his ring modulator and do a cover of R. Kelly’s “I believe I can fly.”
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Ha, I found out about it because I’m happen to know the artiste. And am a bigger Who fan than you! :p The student has surpassed the master.
Also, the artiste is donating profits from the t-shirt sales to help Robert Lancaster. Full of win!
August 23rd, 2008 at 3:29 pm
In the first appearance of the Dalek in the new series (and the only one I have seen), I was quiet surprised that it could float. I was ready to laugh my butt off until that happened. Disappointing. The only things I hate about Daleks is that there plunger weapon looks so cheesie and stupid.
August 23rd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Rebecca, you will not be able to claim superiority when Phil regenerates into PZ.
Or is PZ the Master?
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
PZ is more like Davros both seem to like things with tentacles.
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
IBY, the daleks could float back in during the seventh Doctor in Rememberance of the Daleks, there have been more then on appearance of the Daleks since Doctor Who started agian but everytime they have been EX-TERM-IN-ATED.
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Wow, thanks for the plug. T-shirts will be available until the BBC sics their lawyers on me. Which may happen faster now, thanks to Rebecca and Phil. =)
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
@Fizzle: OK- that’s the one I was thinking of.
August 24th, 2008 at 12:27 am
yeah. Oskar… they don’t even like it when people give stuff away for free.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I suppose you’d like this, too, BA?
http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/21/steampunkdalek.jpg
August 24th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
I totally just bought the shirt. I am so impulsive.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:18 am
[...] – scientist, skeptic and geek-in-charge at the Bad Astronomy blog – got wind of my Dalek comic, and posted about it on Saturday afternoon. He even used the word “want” in the title, in that peculiar, [...]
August 25th, 2008 at 10:31 am
Unfortunately, this shirt depicts a modern, truncated cone-lighted Dalek, who most certainly can climb stairs. The joke would have worked better if it used an old-style dome-lighted Dalek.
Then again, the movie Daleks also had truncated cone lights, so maybe it’s one of them on this shirt. I’m pretty sure they couldn’t climb stairs.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:27 am
You could do with the same phrase, only with ED-209 at the top of the stairwell looking down, maybe with his foot dangling over the stairs about to try to take that first step.
August 30th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
After a couple of requests, I’ve created a dark version of the shirt graphic, and made it available on a selection of white and light-colored shirts. If you’re not the black t-shirt type, it’s your lucky day.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:21 am
[...] at least once every weekday since the middle/end of July. Thanks in part to a couple of auspicious links (and an oddly large number of people Googling Mark Biltz), we’ve had over 5,000 hits, and [...]