Dogs of War?!

[jjpor]

Among my other many and varied interests, I am a sometime student of the weird and phantasmagorical. Which is to say, those Arthur C Clarke "world of the unexplained" type programmes and those Usborne books about monsters, UFO etc made a big impression on my primary-school-aged self back in the 80s. Unfortunately, in later life, I come to realise that it's all bunk, but entertaining bunk and that's the main thing.

Anyway, this tickled me greatly; it's a pretty extreme example of the kind of bonkers propaganda stories that came out of WW1; fodder for another retro-Torchwood story methinks, or maybe some truly deranged original fiction:

lippard.blogspot.com/2008/12/hound-of-mons.html

And your guess as to what "careful training in fiendishness" might consist of is as good as mine.

Comments

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Which is more or less what Donna managed to do in "Midnight" - very wise of her, I always thought. ;D

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Four and Romana ever did something like. One of them picking to stay and relax while the other went adventuring, or going on separate adventures. That would be a very couple-y thing to do, actually.

[jjpor.livejournal.com]

Heh, well I can certainly imagine Four doing something like that, relaxing with a good book or a fishing rod or something and letting Romana get on with the adventuring. I mean, he tried to do it in Androids of Tara, before the complications ensued, and arguably he did do it for most of Horns of Nimon, letting Romana handle the technical stuff while he concentrated on the important goofing around and bantering...

I can only imagine how he might have got on if Romana had decided to withdraw her labour for the day... ;D