I wonder why he waited 25 years or so to have kids by his third wife. 55 or 60 is not so crazy, but 80 is pretty weird. How old was his wife? If she was 20 when she married him, she was 46 when she had the kids. Was she 20 when she got married? That's pretty young.
A sentence of death to any editorial cartoonist who shows him being pulled up to heaven with the caption, "Beam him up!" Same applies when Shatner or Nimoy die.
A sentence of death to any editorial cartoonist who shows him being pulled up to heaven with the caption, "Beam him up!" Same applies when Shatner or Nimoy die.
"At Least He Prospered" is a much funnier Nimoy death joke, anyway.
(I tried to come up with something for Shatner, but it's hard to wring any really good puns out of the word "TekWar")
I didn't make it up, but no, I'm pretty sure it's not a Commitments reference. I think it was supposed to simultaneously pick the long-hanging fruit of the phallic joke and poke fun at MW's basketball skills via comparison to Karl Malone. And the pimpin' flavor of the whole thing is at odds with his social persona.
Did anyone else find this a strange use of the word "apocryphal"?
"James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original 'Star Trek' TV series and motion pictures who responded to the apocryphal command 'Beam me up, Scotty,' died early Wednesday."
God damn you, person whose name it would still be completely unforgivable to reveal, so I won't do it. And you reveal that my social persona is non-pimpin' too? I am crushed, crushed.
The person who coined that name always claimed--to me--that it came out more or less randomly.
19 is perfectly true. Scotty beamed lots of people up and down, and Kirk often asked to be beamed up, but never did he (or anyone else) say "Scotty, beam me up," any more more than Humphrey Bogart ever said "Play it again, Sam."
9: an awful lot of the people who came out of vaudeville and were in movies of the Twenties and Thirties; Chico Marx is probably one of the few names who would still be well-remembered. But I have quite a few more recent examples floating in the back of my head.
I had a number of links and observations here, if anyone cares, including a link to one of my accounts of the time I met Doohan.
Lieberman... said their message to Bush essentially was, "Don't send us an extremist that's going to blow the place up, and first look is that that's exactly what he has not done."
Pretty much every blog in creation seemed to think they were being original, creative, and clever, in using some variation of "Beam me up" as a header.
On my way in this morning, it occurred to me that the answer to #9 is George W. Bush. This would have been sort of clever had I thought of it at the right time.
I wonder why he waited 25 years or so to have kids by his third wife. 55 or 60 is not so crazy, but 80 is pretty weird. How old was his wife? If she was 20 when she married him, she was 46 when she had the kids. Was she 20 when she got married? That's pretty young.
Posted by bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 12:11 PM
Eric has written a book and so is probably reasonably old. Maybe Sarah was a surprise.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 12:15 PM
We only know that the last kid came late. The first two with the third wife could have been back in the 70s and poor Sara might have been an accident.
Posted by bza | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 12:15 PM
A sentence of death to any editorial cartoonist who shows him being pulled up to heaven with the caption, "Beam him up!" Same applies when Shatner or Nimoy die.
Posted by SP | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 12:19 PM
In first, with more information, a link and proper spelling. You are so pwned, bza.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 12:22 PM
She was 43. So, 54-year-old Scotty married a 16-year-old? Weird.
Posted by JP | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 12:33 PM
I mean 17.
Posted by JP | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 12:37 PM
A sentence of death to any editorial cartoonist who shows him being pulled up to heaven with the caption, "Beam him up!" Same applies when Shatner or Nimoy die.
"At Least He Prospered" is a much funnier Nimoy death joke, anyway.
(I tried to come up with something for Shatner, but it's hard to wring any really good puns out of the word "TekWar")
Posted by tom | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 1:41 PM
Question: is there another actor who is most famous for a role in which they spoke in an accent not their own?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 2:02 PM
Mel Blanc?
Posted by andrew | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 2:13 PM
Peter Sellars?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 2:22 PM
That is, "Sellers".
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 2:23 PM
To 5:
Conceded. But stay polite or I'll reveal to this site your nickname from grad school.
Posted by bza | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 2:33 PM
bza is in contempt of blog until he/she reveals Weiner's nickname.
(Why does a guy named Weiner need a nickname?)
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 2:34 PM
"The Meatman Magic Matt Weiner."
Snickering at just plain "Weiner" would have no art to it.
Posted by bza | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 3:03 PM
Big The Committments fan?
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 3:05 PM
I didn't make it up, but no, I'm pretty sure it's not a Commitments reference. I think it was supposed to simultaneously pick the long-hanging fruit of the phallic joke and poke fun at MW's basketball skills via comparison to Karl Malone. And the pimpin' flavor of the whole thing is at odds with his social persona.
Posted by bza | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 3:36 PM
Did anyone else find this a strange use of the word "apocryphal"?
"James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original 'Star Trek' TV series and motion pictures who responded to the apocryphal command 'Beam me up, Scotty,' died early Wednesday."
Posted by JW | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 4:03 PM
I took it to mean that the line was never uttered on an episode. But it was a little strange.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 4:06 PM
Shucks, I didn't know that line was never actually uttered in the series. If that's the case, I suppose "apocryphal" kinda fits.
Posted by JW | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 4:16 PM
God damn you, person whose name it would still be completely unforgivable to reveal, so I won't do it. And you reveal that my social persona is non-pimpin' too? I am crushed, crushed.
The person who coined that name always claimed--to me--that it came out more or less randomly.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 5:01 PM
Here's the first predictably terrible real media headline for the Doohan death that I've seen.
Posted by tom | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 7:22 PM
19 is perfectly true. Scotty beamed lots of people up and down, and Kirk often asked to be beamed up, but never did he (or anyone else) say "Scotty, beam me up," any more more than Humphrey Bogart ever said "Play it again, Sam."
9: an awful lot of the people who came out of vaudeville and were in movies of the Twenties and Thirties; Chico Marx is probably one of the few names who would still be well-remembered. But I have quite a few more recent examples floating in the back of my head.
I had a number of links and observations here, if anyone cares, including a link to one of my accounts of the time I met Doohan.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 07-20-05 9:56 PM
"He's Dead, Jim" is so lovely in its awfulness.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 7:10 AM
I canna take much more of this.
Posted by Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 7:15 AM
"He's Dead, Jim" is so lovely in its awfulness.
Agreed. Then there's this headline.
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 8:18 AM
Lieberman... said their message to Bush essentially was, "Don't send us an extremist that's going to blow the place up, and first look is that that's exactly what he has not done."
The thing is Lieberman meant that literally.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 9:50 AM
Why is Lieberman such a tool?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 9:56 AM
Pretty much every blog in creation seemed to think they were being original, creative, and clever, in using some variation of "Beam me up" as a header.
Respectful, too.
Posted by Gary Farber | Link to this comment | 07-21-05 10:46 AM
On my way in this morning, it occurred to me that the answer to #9 is George W. Bush. This would have been sort of clever had I thought of it at the right time.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 07-22-05 7:07 AM