Under Torch Wood

[altariel]

I'm sure this has done the rounds already, but I have been in NaNoHell so, anyway: Under Torch Wood.

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[jhall1.livejournal.com]

That's brilliant.

TORCHWOOD AGENT 1
Toshiko Sato. I'm an all-new kind of female sci-fi character for the twenty-first century. I can give computers insoluble equations in Algol.

I hope you got the reference. :)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I didn't - but is it Trillian?

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Older than that, I think. I believe it's a reference to the Second Doctor's companion Zoe destroying a robot by this means. I remember the incident from watching the story when it was first broadcast, but unfortunately can't now remember which story it was.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

Got it now, thanks to a Google search. The incident occurs in Episode 2 of "The Invasion". Here's a site with a complete transcript:

http://homepages.bw.edu/~jcurtis/Scripts/Invasion/inv2.html

Look at section 12.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

ZOE: INTEGER COMPUTE PRINTOUT Y TO THE MINUS X VARIABLE 1

(The Machine begins to whirr more furiously and starts to greet them again.)

ZOE: I'm enjoying this.

Oh, that is delightful! I had completely forgotten about that. Very bad, given my icon.