From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Q: What do you call two MDs who travel back in time to cure pivotal figures and protect the timeline?
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:37:25 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Eyyyyuw.

"A Stitch in Time" would just be one episode title.

The series would have some more general name. I especially like the idea of
an episode where the docs prevent the black plague only to come back to a
future where they a) don't belong and b) bring the plague back to a
population with no resistance or means to fight it, and it becomes a global
panedemic. I think the title of that one is "First, Do No Harm". Make a nice
season closer, because it could cliffhang on the return.

Ernest Lilley

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike B. [mailto:omni at omniphile.com]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 6:21 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Q: What do you call two MDs who travel back in time to cure pivotal figures and protect the timeline?

At 05:58 PM 4/11/05 -0400, Ernest Lilley wrote:
>Hard to copyright a phrase that predates copyright law.

True.  I don't think you can copyright a phrase anyway.  Trademark it
maybe, but not copyright...otherwise I'd just write a program to generate
all possible combinations of the 5,000 most commonly used words, print the
results and send them to the PTO and sue everyone for infringement.  If I
had enough paper anyway... ;-)

You might, however, want to be careful of the confusion that using an
existing title within the genre of SF (STF, Skiffy or whatever) might
generate.  It could hurt you..."Oh, yeah, I read that years ago..." <ding!>
No Sale!

How about calling it "Doc Holiday and the Time Rippers" for a good pulp
feel?
:-)

Or "A Longitudinal Study of the Medical Side Effects of Resublimated
Thiotimeline On World History" for a more scholarly journal appeal?

-- Mike B.
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