Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:21:53 -0500
From: thaughey <thaughey at acnet.net>
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?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

You could then follow up with a reality TV show.  It could be a pair a
documentary or a pair a docudrama.  --Tom Haughey

Ernest Lilley wrote:

>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.
>