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Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: diamondgeezer on August 08, 2004, 12:44:38 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/scientists/

*votes for Q* - and note that that's Q as in Desmond Llewellyn, you ST fanboys...
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on August 08, 2004, 01:04:47 pm
Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Thorn on August 08, 2004, 01:08:46 pm
As cool as Q is, Scully does have the hotness thing going on.. tough choice...
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Taristin on August 08, 2004, 01:34:05 pm
See? When I read 'Q' I don't think ST, i think James Bond... :nervous:
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Rictor on August 08, 2004, 01:42:59 pm
The late great Q.

Scully was a close second.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: redsniper on August 08, 2004, 03:54:38 pm
Q just makes exploding pens and jetpacks, but Scully does alien autopsies and finds government implants in people and such. Plus she's hotter than Q :p
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: aldo_14 on August 08, 2004, 05:00:26 pm
Q.  No competition.

Although, if they'd included Professor Frinck.........

Edit; give me an exploding pen and jetpack over a died smelly green man any day
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Taristin on August 08, 2004, 05:06:38 pm
So is John Cleese officially 'R'?
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: beatspete on August 08, 2004, 06:13:06 pm
Bah.  No Proffessor Farnsworth from futurama.

(http://www.gotfuturama.com/Multimedia/FrameGrabs/1ACV06/Grabs/pic00595.jpg)
Title: well
Post by: Getter Robo G on August 08, 2004, 06:21:33 pm
It was a toss up between THE DOCTOR and Spock. I like Trek more so I went with the Vulcan.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Ace on August 08, 2004, 06:49:11 pm
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!


Certain... hrmm.... sacrifices must be made! Such as the monogamous marriage... :lol:
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Ford Prefect on August 08, 2004, 08:40:13 pm
What's a boffin?
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Taristin on August 08, 2004, 08:42:07 pm
One of them weird English terms... DG uses alot of it. :p
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Ford Prefect on August 08, 2004, 08:49:27 pm
What does it mean, though? I can't contribute because I don't know who qualifies.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Rictor on August 08, 2004, 09:27:18 pm
Hmm, from the context, boffin probably means scientist, though you never can tell with those tricksy British, it could just as well mean lamp-post.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Ford Prefect on August 08, 2004, 10:31:32 pm
Well, I voted for Dr. Strangelove.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Mr. Vega on August 08, 2004, 10:47:18 pm
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Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Well, I voted for Dr. Strangelove.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Knight Templar on August 09, 2004, 02:21:21 am
That's got to be the best name ever.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Martinus on August 09, 2004, 02:37:49 am
[color=66ff00]A boffin is someone who's quite smart or ingenious, it almost always has scientific overtones.
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Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Singh on August 09, 2004, 02:53:05 am
Scully.
Cause at least, she's there throughout the episode/movie, rather than just a one-time appearance.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Gloriano on August 09, 2004, 06:05:03 am
Q of course
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Cyker on August 09, 2004, 06:36:07 am
I dunno how some of those people got into that list. I mean, Scully is not a boffin. She's too hot to be a boffin.
Mulder could be a boffin but not Scully.

The word Boffin, to me, means Geek, Lab coat, Glasses.

It's definitely between the Back to the Future mad scientist guy (GREAT SCOTT!) and Q (Will you cut that out 007!) from that list :)

Outside the list, how about Gordan Freeman (HalfLife) or John Carmack?
Frasier Crane? Actually no, not Frasier... eck.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Anubis2k4 on August 09, 2004, 06:56:25 am
I voted for the Doctor, our favorite renegade Time Lord. :)
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Liberator on August 09, 2004, 04:00:02 pm
He's not that much of a renegade.  His human half just happens to include a conscience and a sense of justice which the Galafreyans don't seem to have in great supply seeing as they didn't kill the Master and instead let him **** with the timeline and let the Doctor do their dirty work.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Thorn on August 09, 2004, 04:43:48 pm
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Originally posted by Cyker
I dunno how some of those people got into that list. I mean, Scully is not a boffin. She's too hot to be a boffin.
Mulder could be a boffin but not Scully.

The word Boffin, to me, means Geek, Lab coat, Glasses.

She's supposed to be brilliant as well as hot.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Ford Prefect on August 09, 2004, 10:11:59 pm
I'm sorry, Scully isn't hot.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: Rictor on August 09, 2004, 10:22:21 pm
Well, keep in mind, she's in her 40s now. And she does have a certain charm, though I will admit that she's not outright beautiful.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: aldo_14 on September 06, 2004, 06:30:47 am
And the winner is.... (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3625256.stm)
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: vyper on September 06, 2004, 06:37:30 am
[q]4. Q (James Bond) – 9 per cent [/q]

"You're joking?"
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: aldo_14 on September 06, 2004, 06:39:09 am
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Originally posted by vyper
[q]4. Q (James Bond) – 9 per cent [/q]

"You're joking?"


Too mainstream for the BBC 'cult' website, I'd guess.
Title: Vote for your favourite fictional boffin
Post by: vyper on September 06, 2004, 06:46:55 am
I was hoping for someone to say "I never joke about my work 007"... but you're all failures and I'm highly disappointed :p

[q]
Too mainstream for the BBC 'cult' website, I'd guess.[/q]

Tbh, bbc cult really is mainstream stuff. They had Buffy under cult.