Exterminate, Then Fumigate
I don’t know what I love most about this vintage British commercial starring a Dalek. Is it the fact that the Dalek is so stymied by the stairs that he has no choice but to have a smoke break?Is it that somehow this isn’t a PSA, but an actual ad for Hamlet cigarettes? Is it because the cigarettes are awesomely called “Hamlet”? Or is it the fact that even a Dalek looks super-cool while smoking? I don’t know. All I know is that Doctor Who is missing a golden opportunity by not having Daleks smoke all the damn time. (Via io9)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.