davegruen.com » Tardis http://www.davegruen.com A place of useless information Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:55:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Turdis http://www.davegruen.com/2008/08/25/turdis/ http://www.davegruen.com/2008/08/25/turdis/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:32:35 +0000 HiddenVorlon http://www.davegruen.com/?p=198 My wife and I have coined a new phrase: Turdis.  The origin has to do with the BBC show Doctor Who.  For those of you who don’t know, Doctor Who travels in time & space with his TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimensions in Space).  The Tardis is broken to remain looking like a police call box.  Well… a number of outhouses in the area are small, blue and look like the Tardis.  So we now call them a "Turdis" because they aren’t quite a Tardis.

Turdis
A Turdis
   
Tardis Turdis
The Tardis in action A Turdis in action

Once Webster’s calls, we’ll get it into the next version of the dictionary.

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