The pool on the roof...

[Bruno]

is a Doctor Who reference, right?

Or is the 1987 episode Paradise Towers also a reference to something else?

Possibly something having to do with the 87 stock market crash which occurred during the time Paradise Towers was being aired?


or 

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

My vote is a 'Hackers' reference.

[Bruno]

My vote is a 'Hackers' reference.

Ah, that makes sense too.

[Cain]

It's a reference to there being a pool.

On the roof.

[Bruno]

Is there a robotic crab in the pool?









There is. Isn't there.

[Triple Zero]

... wait a minute, it's still on fire, isn't it?

I know, I know, because of what happened shortly after (during) the other party, the poodles went extinct and now you can't buy a garden-hose anywhere without a license.

Still, a pool is NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON FIRE.

[Cain]

Still, a pool is NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON FIRE.

The roof is, though.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire!

[Bruno]

Still, a pool is NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON FIRE.

The roof is, though.

I heard it was more like this, except people died. 

[McGrupp]

If I'm not mistaken the pool on the roof was first referenced in the Code of Urukagina a Sumerian stone fragment dating back to 2400 BC.  It is a law code from the City-State of Lagash shortly before they lost a border skirmish with Uruk.

The pool is mentioned briefly right before 'the rich must use silver when purchasing from the poor' but after the proper instructions for ritual food and drink libations.

I hope this helps.

[Bruno]

If I'm not mistaken the pool on the roof was first referenced in the Code of Urukagina a Sumerian stone fragment dating back to 2400 BC.  It is a law code from the City-State of Lagash shortly before they lost a border skirmish with Uruk.

The pool is mentioned briefly right before 'the rich must use silver when purchasing from the poor' but after the proper instructions for ritual food and drink libations.

I hope this helps.

Hmmm... One of the guys I work with at work is Sumerian.

I'll have to ask him about that.

[Pæs]

If I'm not mistaken the pool on the roof was first referenced in the Code of Urukagina a Sumerian stone fragment dating back to 2400 BC.  It is a law code from the City-State of Lagash shortly before they lost a border skirmish with Uruk.

The pool is mentioned briefly right before 'the rich must use silver when purchasing from the poor' but after the proper instructions for ritual food and drink libations.

I hope this helps.

The "pool on the roof" interpretation of the Code of Urukagina is a controversial subject among academics. Some contest that a more literal translation reads "there is an ocean above the city" and that this is not so much a part of the law as a reference to a widely-known myth among the Sumerians of a sunken city and those that dwell there. This myth is invoked as justification for the codes of law that follow and was actually the inspiration for the Cthulhu mythos.

[Telarus]

I found a playable set of The Game of Ur (Or, "Race the chariots up the stairway to the pool on the roof"), which you can play here:

http://www.yourturnmyturn.com/java/ur/index.php

Could this be a reference?

[Faust]

Sylvester McCoy's run was terrific, even Mel. There I said it, it cant be undone.

[Bruno]

Sylvester McCoy's run was terrific, even Mel. There I said it, it cant be undone.

It was very 1980's. Dr. Who episodes get better with age, I think.

As an American, the "foreignness" of it enhances the alien, or perception of space in relation to the episode. Similarly as with age of the episode, and the concept of time.

Also, the resurrection, or, regeneration of the series is all meta with fractal universes and shit.

The final episode was amazingly terrible. It was an epic tragedy of an example of what happens when financial entropy engulfs a fictional universe.

Basically, everybody just goes "derp" a lot, and does things FOR NO RAISIN!