Surely this ought to exist?

[thisbluespirit]

Username: lost_spook
Era (if any): Classic Who (although really it could be any at all, I suppose!)
Characters/Pairings (if any): Third Doctor, UNIT (or anyone, really.)
Plot Bunny Summary: There's a Yeti on the loo in Tooting Bec
Any Other Notes: Maybe it's just me, but I can't remember seeing this in fic form anywhere as yet. Jon Pertwee's eternal example of how UNIT worked, for those who haven't heard it before. There ought to be crackfic. It seems polite for it to be Three, but as long as we find out why a giant, hairy robotic creature was sitting on the loo (and why in Tooting Bec), I am not particular which Doctor/characters. In fact, if everyone keeps finding a Yeti on the loo, it might be even funnier.

(Yes, I managed to listen to a bit of the commentary for Planet of the Spiders. There might be more.)

Comments

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

...you know, I'd been looking for a funny throwaway line about another alien disaster that needs investigating, for the flying dogs X-UNIT fic (probably. My UNIT fics are somewhat like a plate of four-dimensional spaghetti.) I think "There's a Yeti on the loo in Tooting Bec" may just have become my go-to. There is always going to be a Yeti on the loo in Tooting Bec from now on, if I need it to be. :D

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

...oh, good grief, and now I Google-mapped (that is so a word, shush *g*) Tooting Bec. I'm going to be muttering happily over familiar names in the environs of London all day, aren't I?

BASINGSTOKE.

Battersea, Upper Norwood, Wimbledon Common. Clapham, Putney, Lambeth, Kew. Chiswick! Greenwich! Croydon! (Not to be confused with Corydon, which was the first capital of Indiana.) Epsom! Woking and Guildford and Reigate!

...I read way too much British detective fiction, don't I.

*/completely OT, unless there are Yeti on loos in all these places*

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

:D You have no idea how close I've come to going to Basingstoke just to know I had gone to Basingstoke. Then I decided that was silly.

I still want to make it to Penzance someday, though. But I hear there are actually tourist reasons to go there. (Besides the pirates, I mean.)

[thisbluespirit]

:lol: Basingstoke? ...Why?

Penzance is of course perfectly sensible. Cornwall is v pretty, so I hear. I've always stopped short in Devon, though.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

It's a terribly obscure Gilbert & Sullivan reference - in Ruddigore, Mad Margaret (good gosh, I can barely even remember the names, why am I explaining this? o_O) goes un-mad at one point and her husband helps her stay sane by saying "Basingstoke" (a word which "teems with hidden meaning", according to the opera) every time she shows signs of a relapse.

*needs a G&S icon*

[thisbluespirit]

Ah. Aha ha ha. That would explain it. :-)

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Curu explained it very well, but I will add that when I got the idea for "Fallacy Somewhere," I resolved that the very first word of dialogue in the fic would be "Basingstoke!" And it is. :D

Here is a video of the Power of Basingstoke scene from "Ruddigore": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi4Q-Bhlfl0

[thisbluespirit]

There absolutely should be Yetis on the loo in all those places. Invasion of the Public Conveniences! ("I paid 20p, and when I got in there, there was some great hairy monster sitting in the cubicle and it didn't even pull the flush!)

I don't think you can read too much British crime fiction, personally. :-)

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

'I don't think you can read too much British crime fiction, personally. :-)'

Possibly not. ;-) But I'm running out... I've read all the Holmes, all the Father Brown, 90% of the Christie (and I don't even like her, really - I was just EXCESSIVELY BORED and hadn't discovered fanfic yet), 95% of the Sayers, and probably some others I forget. Who am I missing, I wonder?

[thisbluespirit]

Ngaio Marsh? She is one of the best of the golden age crime writers. Even if technically she is from New Zealand. Have you tried Michael Innes? He varies, but some of his (like The Daffodil Affair are wonderfully bonkers.) Also Edmund Crispin, who also is a bit crazy (in a good way). And Margery Allingham? Although I am a bit less keen on some of those. Mind you, I like Agatha Christie. ;-)

(I know these things because I cannot resist a Penguin greenback in a second hand book shop. :-D)

I am also a sucker for historical crime fiction - although not as many, but def. Ellis Peters and Anne Perry.

[pedanther]

Josephine Tey.

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

I think I read about five of hers in a row and then got slightly tired of her favorite tropes... might give them another try, as that was about six years ago.