TDTO: Perfect Perisher (drabble) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It had taken Barbara all afternoon to persuade Maxil that perhaps the candidates should be given the opportunity to express themselves in their own words. It had taken her less than a minute to realise how wrong she'd been. "There is not enough discipline among our young boys today!" Roderick Spode was saying-- nay, declaiming. "It is necessary to impose on them what their parents cannot, or will not, supply. Couple this with a new syllabus designed to teach the girls their true place in society..." Barbara wondered whether she could contrive to club herself into unconsciousness without being noticed. [ "Doctor Who" characters belong to the BBC. Roderick Spode created by P G Wodehouse. This Time Round created by Tyler Dion. Then Do That Over by Paul Gadzikowski. It was either Spode or headmaster GRIMES of st custards. And GRIMES appere to be fuly ockupied on the seafront selling whelks and jellied eels chiz. ]