You can never had too much U.N.I.T.  Glad they got a look in in the Slitheen episode.  I’m hoping Torchwood will have reference.

‘Jenkins (!) Chap with wings, five rounds, rapid’

KPG: if you’re jonesing for a little more Doctor in your life,

‘jonesing’ made me smile.
I checked the urban dictionary to confirm I understood it correctly.
You may think: what else could it mean? and I’d agree with you.
Then I think of the word ‘pissed’. You may think I mean angry. In Oz it can also mean ‘drunk’.
So the meaning of ‘he was pissed coz he was pissed’, isn’t immediately apparent.
I think it was Oscar who said: England and America - two countries separated by a common language.

Then I think of the word ‘pissed’.

Okay, since you mentioned the word pissed, go read this blog entry http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=2594 at Warren Ellis’ site and explain the meaning of the phrase I’m taking the piss horribly out of David Mamet. if you don’t mind. I think I get the general idea, but still, usage I’ve never run across before......

KPG: I’m taking the piss horribly out of David Mamet.

Ah, yes. I forgot that usage of piss. Lampoon or send-up is the closest, I think.
Think of the subtle difference between taking a piss and taking the piss.
Pissed is Nearly as flexible a word as Fucked.
There’s also ‘pissed-off’ meaning annoyed, but you know that one.
Pissed off can also mean ‘Elvis has left the building = Elvis has pissed off’
or Piss-off outa my life, is like Fuck-off outa my life!
It’s all in the context.
Years ago I made up a sentence using all its variations in response to an American girl who misunderstood me and became a little afraid, wondering what she’d said to upset me, when I said I was a bit pissed.
Of course I can’t remember it now.

Hence the joke

Why did the condom fly across the room?

Because it was pissed off.

Pissed is Nearly as flexible a word as Fucked.

Hard to beat the flexibility of “fuck”:
fuck
fuck over
fuck off
fuck around
fuck up
The origin of “fuck” is moot. There are two proto Indo-European roots that may be the source: *peig-, meaning “hostile”, which is related to the words “feud”, “fey”, “fickle”, and “foe”; and *peuk-, “prick”, which gave us “compunction”, “expunge”, “impugn”, “poignant”, “point”, “pounce”, “pugilist”, “punctuate”, “puncture”, “pungent”, and “pygmy”.  Perhaps both had an influence, and thus we have the two common meanings of love (fuck me darling) and hate (fuck off and die).

Fuck is also so universal and immediate.  You never read ‘ “Fuck off”,he hinted’.  Doesn’t matter where you are , say ‘Fuck off’ and they understand.

My dictionary (which is behind a pile of ironing, so I’m doing this from memory) gives Middle German ‘Ficken’ to poke or to prick. 
F or U nlawful C arnal K nowledge around the necks of sexual criminals in the stocks in the Middle ages is a common myth

LH: Fuck is also so universal and immediate.  You never read ‘ “Fuck offâ€?,he hinted’.  Doesn’t matter where you are , say ‘Fuck off’ and they understand.

Ha-ha. I reckon that’d include any country even if they were not conversant in English, when said with passion … but I think nothing has topped this one from the most watched TV programme at 8.30 am. http://www.break.com/index/gettheeffout.html
and, just for the amusement factor, there’s always this: http://justin.justnet.com.au/rudestuff/uses-of-the-word-fuck.html

Christopher Columbus’ “Where the fuck are we?” reminds me of the tribe of 4’ tall African pigmies called the Phaquarwe Tribe. Their main habitat was 5’ tall grass. They used to run around and jump up and down yelling: Where the Phaquarwe?

Thanks for the link with all the usages of “fuck”, John.  Some of them, for instance “fucklings”, were new to me.

Being a fan of old music, I especially like the tropes.  There was a fad back in the Middle Ages for taking a word, such as “Allelujah”, and troping it- that is, inserting another text between its syllables, and singing the whole thing. For instance:

“Al-” credo in unum Deum- “le-” et in unum Dominum- “lu-” omnia domine post coitum tristia sunt- “jah”.

Tropes have pretty much disappeared from the musical landscape, but luckily, they’ve survived to grace our conversation:
fanfuckingtastic
infuckingcredible
unfuckingbelievable

Zilch: Tropes have pretty much disappeared from the musical landscape, but luckily, they’ve survived to grace our conversation:
fanfuckingtastic
infuckingcredible
unfuckingbelievable

Thank you for introfuckingducing me to the concept.
My mates and I do our damnedest to keep it afuckinglive.

reminds me of the tribe of 4’ tall African pigmies called the Phaquarwe Tribe. Their main habitat was 5’ tall grass. They used to run around and jump up and down yelling: Where the Phaquarwe?

The anthropologists have been monitoring them.  They often ask ‘Where the Phaquarwe going’?

They hunt the Ooomigooli bird.  This rare creature has legs 2 feet high, and lives amoung nettles and thorns 2 foot 1 inch high.  As the move throught the habitat they can be tracked by their distinctive squawk of ‘Ooomigoolies, oomigoolies’

i thINK MY spavceship knows which way to goooooo!
DO YOU?