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.
Eric has written a book and so is probably reasonably old. Maybe Sarah was a surprise.
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.
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.
In first, with more information, a link and proper spelling. You are so pwned, bza.
She was 43. So, 54-year-old Scotty married a 16-year-old? Weird.
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")
Question: is there another actor who is most famous for a role in which they spoke in an accent not their own?
To 5:
Conceded. But stay polite or I'll reveal to this site your nickname from grad school.
bza is in contempt of blog until he/she reveals Weiner's nickname.
(Why does a guy named Weiner need a nickname?)
"The Meatman Magic Matt Weiner."
Snickering at just plain "Weiner" would have no art to it.
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."
I took it to mean that the line was never uttered on an episode. But it was a little strange.
Shucks, I didn't know that line was never actually uttered in the series. If that's the case, I suppose "apocryphal" kinda fits.
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.
Here's the first predictably terrible real media headline for the Doohan death that I've seen.
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.
"He's Dead, Jim" is so lovely in its awfulness.
I canna take much more of this.
"He's Dead, Jim" is so lovely in its awfulness.
Agreed. Then there's this headline.
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.
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.
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.