Badger B - The Lord High Thingite Archivist

It is quite a well known fact that Doctor Who changes his facial features from time to time - this is not as we are frequently lead to believe, to do with regeneration or anything as sensible as that.

No.

It is to do with the tortuously complicated road-side parking laws on Galifrey - the good Doctor is simply avoiding prosecution.

The extra points on his time travel licence will render him human and will mean the removal of one of his hearts and the handing over of his sonic screwdriver.

It's a little less known fact that I, Badger B (for it is me), am not a Timelord. Well, actually it's quite a well known fact.

In fact, I am pretty sure that not a single person known to me has ever thought that I may (or may not) be a Timelord.

So that's cleared that up then.

My Forty Two

A person lying on the ground, looking at the stars

It has come to my attention that people seem to be putting wild and wacky mathematical equations together to come up with a cunning way to calculate the answer to the unltimate question of life the universe and everything

Well, I'm game...

the square root of¹ ((100 x 17) + (2 x 32)) = 42

Yes! I am a Thingite

It's my job to search the annals ² of time to find references to the real names of the days of week:

Sodit, Wimpy, Wibble, Thing, Poets, Doobry and Dontbry.

As incredible as it may seem, I was looking through an ancient copy of Nurfery Rimef For Childrene last night and descovered the following stanza:

Solomon Grundy,
Born on a Sodit,
Christened on a Wimpy,
Married on a Wibble,
Took ill on Thing,
Worse on Poets,
Died on Doobry,
Buried on Dontbry,
This is the end of Solomon Grundy.

This shows simply what I seem to have always known that the Thingite Revolution is not new at all. It is right. It is proper.

It is our heritage!

Sodit

For many years now "Sodit" has been pronounced³ "Monday".

This is somtheing which has been tolerated by pretty much everyone in the English speaking world for so long now that the origins of this name have become lost.

Sodit means in Latin "get up! You lazy Brit!"⁴.

When the poor little Ancient Briton woke up he said (in Ancient English) "What day is it?". By some strange quirk of fate the Ancient English for "What day is it?" is exactly the same as the Latin for "What did you say?", to which the Roman replied "Sodit!" again.

Ancient Britons, not being the most intelligent humans on the planet at that time, thought that "Sodit!" was the answer to their question. And being a little challenged in the Latin pronunciation department⁵ They could only get as far as pronouncing "Sodit" as "Monday".

And so, like too many other things in the history of British society, the first day of the week was forged in the furnaces of misunderstanding.