TTR: Silent Minorities Seventh's companions were having a get-together in This Time Round. Roz was, as usual, annoyed about something. "It's not on," she insisted. "What's not on?" asked Chris. "This!" Roz waved a newspaper at him. "This Martha Jones woman being described as the first companion from an 'ethnic minority'! What about me? Or Anji? Or Alison? Or even Erimem!" "Or me!" added Sharon, who happened to be passing, "I was introduced in the seventies!" "I think," said Chris "they mean in the actual series, not spin-offs." "Right," came a voice from the next table. "Because I'm just the tin dog..." -- Dave Official Absentee of EU Skiffeysoc http://sesoc.eusa.ed.ac.uk/ "The only thing worse than being talked about is having nothing to declare except my handbag." -Oscar Wilde, according to Humphrey Lyttleton