# Name this time traveller **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 7, 2006, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678 "2006-08-07T13:35:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/101 "2006-08-11T23:01:23Z")
“All the Who’s down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot. But the Griinch, who lived just north of Whoville, did not.” ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/102 "2006-08-12T12:39:33Z")
So what was Pete Townshend doing in Whoville? ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/103 "2006-08-12T12:53:53Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] So what was Pete Townshend doing in Whoville? [/QUOTE] Not what, who. Little Cindy, to be exact. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/104 "2006-08-12T13:09:24Z")
Cindy who? ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/105 "2006-08-12T15:29:04Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] Cindy who? [/QUOTE] The Doctor’s oft-ignored but winsomely adorable little sister. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/106 "2006-08-12T16:14:19Z")
“Cindy-Lou Who, who was no more than two”. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/107 "2006-08-12T20:30:08Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] Not what, who. Little Cindy, to be exact. [/QUOTE] > [@Lumpy](#): > > “Cindy-Lou Who, who was no more than two”. That sick little… ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/108 "2006-08-12T20:44:25Z")
[QUOTE=Regallag\_The\_Axe] That sick little… [/QUOTE] To who are you referring? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/109 "2006-08-12T20:50:47Z")
To _whom_ are you referring? ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2006, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/110 "2006-08-12T22:50:53Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] “Cindy-Lou Who…” [/QUOTE] Okay, fine. Cindy-Lou who? ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/111 "2006-08-13T15:14:05Z")
Cindy-Lou whom? ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/112 "2006-08-13T15:19:41Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] “The Doctor” or “Doctor” is the title by which the mysterious Timelord refers to himself, as a mark of his self-chosen exile from his native world, Gallifrey. … There have been multiple teasers throughout the series that the syllable “Who” is a part of the Doctor’s name, although the Doctor himself claims that his true name is unpronouncable by humans. [/QUOTE] And at the end of at least one episode, after The Doctor has left, the exchange goes like this: Who was that? The Doctor. Doctor who? Exactly. ---
**Author:** ![NoCoolUserName](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5fc32e/32.png) [@NoCoolUserName](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoCoolUserName)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/113 "2006-08-13T15:20:46Z")
Who was that masked man? ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/114 "2006-08-13T19:31:34Z")
“Who put the bomp In the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? Who put the ram In the rama lama ding dong? Who put the bop In the bop shoo bop shoo bop? Who put the dip In the dip da dip da dip? Who was that man? I’d like to shake his hand He made my baby fall in love with me” -Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, all rights reserved. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/115 "2006-08-14T01:49:33Z")
Dang, the Doctor’s been _around_, at least judging from the previous post (Quoting that would just be mean). ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/116 "2006-08-14T02:14:03Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] Who was that man? -Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, all rights reserved. [/QUOTE] That man was [Barry Mann](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Put_the_Bomp), actually. So, ironically, Me First was not…first… ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/117 "2006-08-14T02:23:04Z")
[hijack] Did Me First and the Gimme Gimmes really write that song? I thought they were just a cover band. Wasn’t it used at the end of “Grease”? [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/118 "2006-08-14T04:25:37Z")
[QUOTE=NoCoolUserName] And at the end of at least one episode, after The Doctor has left, the exchange goes like this: Who was that? The Doctor. Doctor who? Exactly. [/QUOTE] Exactly what? What was his name? ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/119 "2006-08-14T05:59:56Z")
Just thought you’d like to know… Who’s sorry now, who’s sorry now Whose heart is achin’ for breakin’ each vow Who’s sad and blue, who’s cryin’ too Six weeks at #1 in 1958 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678/120 "2006-08-14T10:57:00Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] Exactly what? What was his name? [/QUOTE] No, What was the name of the guy who invented the steam engine? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-this-time-traveller/367678.md?page=7)