Okaaaaaaayyy...
This may be a bit long (stop it! Now!)

My username was, in part, inspired by daytime TV advertising. How the hell does Davros, creator of the Daleks, have anything to do with advertising, you may ask. Well, he doesn't - not directly anyway.

A few years ago, I was off work - can't remember why, I was either on leave, sick, or skiving. Tourette's had the telly on mid-morning, and I was rapidly transfixed by the sheer banality of some of the adverts. One in particular had me giggling. It was an ad for a mobility chair. Not an electric wheelchair - oh no. This was a proper armchair, that moved its occupant around the living room at the flick of a switch. It had directional control and everything - a marvel to behold. The fact that the occupant would be well and truly fucked if they wanted to nip into the kitchen for a brew, being that the armchair was patently wider than the average doorframe had obviously escaped the manufacturers notice, but an interesting concept nonetheless.

Demonstrating this miracle of lazy bastard armchair technology was a Thora Hird looky-likey, beaming proudly as her chair whizzed her around her living room as she tried to locate her reading glasses. "Fuck me", said I, "she's looks like Davros' Granny in that thing".

Fast forward a couple of years, and I found myself finally registering on b3ta (more with the intent of tracking down Legless, having drifted out of contact). On being asked for a username, my drunken mind meandered back to that advert. "I can't be Davros' Granny, 'cos I'm a bloke" I reasoned (and yes, I know BobFossil and Bob Todd are of the female persuasion, but I've got age old Northern traditions to uphold here), and so Davros' Granddad was born.

On reflection, had my mind not been addled with wine that night, I might have gone for Hugh Jardon instead, but I forgot about that momentarily...
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 12 May 2008, 20:23, Reply)