[FRC Blog] Kickoff Broadcast and Game Hint Redux

[Pendulum^-1]

OK, another shot at the whole Game Hint speculation. Quote:

"*Doctor Who is not a hint. I just happen to enjoy the show.

[Please don’t take my saying Doctor Who is not a hint to mean it really is a hint. It’s really not a hint]

[[Please don’t take my saying Doctor Who really is not a hint to mean it really really is a hint. It’s really really not a hint]]

[[[etc]]]"

Ok, so let's assume that Doctor Who is NOT the hint. Is it reasonable to say that Doctor "Whos" is a hint? (Gramatically, the plural should probably be "Doctors Who*." But this is the GDC, and this is just a Game Hint.) We've now had two very explicit references to two distinctly different Doctors. And the whole denial string is likely an imitation of the campy time travel/time looping inherent in any episode featuring everyone's favorite (alien) Time Lord. And the Doctor Whos hint is even emphasized again with the etc at the end, which is typically translated out of Latin (et cetera) as "and so forth." Indicating repetition. Which is what Doctor Who does in nearly every episode.

If the hint is "Whos," then Whos on FIRST could be back in play, I would think. It would be more than a little crazy to have a permutation of a baseball game, featuring wiffle balls thrown at targets.

*Based upon the plural of Attorney General is Attorneys General, not Attorney Generals.