When a colleague at work recently turned up one morning sporting a rather large wound to her upper lip, I was put in mind of a certain story concerning Tom Baker.
When I later learned that my colleague's mishap was due to the involvement of a dog... well, you can see where all this is leading, can't you?
TRUE OR FALSE? Tom Baker received a wound to his upper lip due to inadvisedly teasing a dog with a sausage in a pub.
I've always had a great fondness for this particular story, and many times over the years I have mentally used the phrase "teasing a dog with a sausage" when attempting to rationalise personal actions that I know to be potentially harmful and stupid, yet which will be embarked upon anyway, common sense notwithstanding.
So, I was obviously disappointed to learn recently that it wasn't actually true.
Whilst Tom Baker certainly did sustain a rather nasty injury to his lip from Paul Seed's dog, it sadly didn't involve a sausage. It appears that Baker was warned that making a certain mouth popping noise would infuriate the dog, so of course he did the sane and rational thing and the script for "The Pirate Planet" had to be adjusted accordingly...
As a result of this revelation, I am now more comfortable around canine encounters that involve sausages.
Unfortunately, I am now also reminded of a pre-pubescent Patsy Kensit and her appearances in TV advertisements for frozen peas.
"Sweet as the moment as the pod went pop", indeed...
I've always had a great fondness for this particular story, and many times over the years I have mentally used the phrase "teasing a dog with a sausage" when attempting to rationalise personal actions that I know to be potentially harmful and stupid, yet which will be embarked upon anyway, common sense notwithstanding.
So, I was obviously disappointed to learn recently that it wasn't actually true.
Whilst Tom Baker certainly did sustain a rather nasty injury to his lip from Paul Seed's dog, it sadly didn't involve a sausage. It appears that Baker was warned that making a certain mouth popping noise would infuriate the dog, so of course he did the sane and rational thing and the script for "The Pirate Planet" had to be adjusted accordingly...
As a result of this revelation, I am now more comfortable around canine encounters that involve sausages.
Unfortunately, I am now also reminded of a pre-pubescent Patsy Kensit and her appearances in TV advertisements for frozen peas.
"Sweet as the moment as the pod went pop", indeed...
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