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Funniest thing in peripheral doctor who canon is the cancelled Douglas Adams serial (turned hitchhiker's guide novel) (turned licensed doctor who novel) which revealed that the sport of Cricket was, either through forgotten cultural consciousness or pure random chance, indistinguishable from an incredibly poor-taste reenactment of an intergalactic historic atrocity, and that cricket uniforms happened to look exactly like the uniforms of the butchers who almost wiped out all life in the universe, and that everyone else in the universe is completely disgusted that Earth has a ghoulish sport like this which is why aliens don't come here except to invade England, the country responsible for it

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Daniel Boyd, We Call them Pirates Out Here, 2006. Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. https://www.mca.com.au/artists-works/works/2006.25/

Boyd, an Indigenous Australian, sardonically retells the myth of Captain Cook.