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Name a character from one of my fandoms and I'll give you (a) three facts about them from my personal canon/fanon, (b) a reason I dislike him/her, (c) a reason she/he is brilliant, (d) five things that never happened to that character or (e) five people that character never fell in love with and why. You pick the character. I pick the letter.

I am irritated to note that I have about €5 in library fines. I really hate the German system of giving you a stupid little computer printout with the date on it - which I instantly lose - rather than putting a stamp in the back/ front of the book where you can see it at a glance. I also haven't had the postal 'Mahnung' - as I set my preferences to 'contact by e-mail', I assumed if I didn't get an e-mail nothing could be overdue, but apparently they just send out overdue notices by post. This strikes me as expensive and inefficient, but is probably a good way to increase fine revenue....

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[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Sam Tyler from "Life on Mars", please.

(And "boo!" on the library fines! When tuition fees of 500 euros per semester were recently introduced, our university library proudly announced, to everyone's wry amusement, that the fees for fines and reservations would now be lowered from 1 euro to 50 cent per book. Hah.)

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1. Sam used to like science fiction - back in the twenty-first century - but he hates it now. Annie has a weakness for Doctor Who, but Sam leaves the room when it comes on. He's never made any attempt to explain this, and Annie doesn't like to ask, as she has a feeling the answer won't have anything to do with not being a child or a Pertwee fan...

2. Neither of them remembers this, but Sam first met Gene when he was four, and got seperated from his dad after a football game, because his dad was too busy trying to organise meeting up with his friends to pay attention to his son. Gene, who had also been at the game, happened across the weeping small boy and ended up taking him back to the station and getting a WPC to give him chocolate biscuits until he calmed down and cheered up enough for them to get his address out of him. The WPC took him home to his mother and Gene gave Vic - who eventually turned up at the station to make enquiries after Sam was on his way home - a bollocking for wasting police time by being bloody careless with his lad.

This may, ultimately, have started Sam off on the road to joining the police, so it's probably just as well that they've both no idea of this.

3. Occasionally he kicks himself for not knowing enough football statistics to make the odd bob or two at the bookies. He did briefly consider putting money on a woman being prime minister before the end of the decade, but he couldn't bring himself to. It would be nearly as bad as actually voting for her.

[rivrea.livejournal.com]

Awww, all three scenarios are quite adorable, but #3 is truly hilarious!