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Traveling through time and space in a blue 1950s English Police Box known as the TARDIS, the main character, "Dr. Who," encounters many adversaries including tank-like mutants known as Daleks.
 
Traveling through time and space in a blue 1950s English Police Box known as the TARDIS, the main character, "Dr. Who," encounters many adversaries including tank-like mutants known as Daleks.
  
Like Hinton, I am also a big fan of the show and so, during dinner, I decided to quiz Hinton on his knowledge, asking him what the acronym TAP, DIS stood for. I was amazed. I had found the first American in America who could answer the question.
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Like Hinton, I am also a big fan of the show and so, during dinner, I decided to quiz Hinton on his knowledge, asking him what the acronym TARDIS stood for. I was amazed. I had found the first American in America who could answer the question.
  
 
For a joke, I posed the same question to my erstwhile colleague Judy Leger. Not to my surprise, she had neither heard of the word TARDIS nor even the show itself! As everyone (except Leger) knows, the concept of relative dimensions in time and space are used in the show to allow the inside of the Police Box to appear larger than on the outside.
 
For a joke, I posed the same question to my erstwhile colleague Judy Leger. Not to my surprise, she had neither heard of the word TARDIS nor even the show itself! As everyone (except Leger) knows, the concept of relative dimensions in time and space are used in the show to allow the inside of the Police Box to appear larger than on the outside.

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