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Subject: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST Date: 20 Apr 02 - 10:51 PM Previous Shatner Threads (click) (please do not refresh them) |
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Subject: RE: Tired of Shatner From: Troll Date: 20 Apr 02 - 11:00 PM Who? troll |
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Subject: RE: Tired of Shatner From: mack/misophist Date: 21 Apr 02 - 12:43 PM He's some guy who does look alikes at Star Trek conventions. |
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Subject: RE: Tired of Shatner From: Nigel Parsons Date: 21 Apr 02 - 01:13 PM "Hey, they say we look alike" "That's tough on both of you!" (Groucho Marx) |
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Subject: RE: Tired of Shatner From: Rolfyboy6 Date: 22 Apr 02 - 01:56 AM Every association/organization/sociological group has its own demons and scapegoats. Shatner is ours and a damn good thing it is too. Deserving and he earned the hard way--with bad acting. I have probably seen most origina l Star trek episodes andhecertainly can milk the pregnant pause. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST Date: 22 Apr 02 - 02:42 AM Okay. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Apr 02 - 04:33 PM This must be a joke, right? Who could possibly be tired of William Shatner??? - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: MMario Date: 22 Apr 02 - 04:39 PM LH - did you forget the "n't" directly after "could"? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Lonesome EJ Date: 22 Apr 02 - 04:46 PM How about Leonard Nimoy, LH? I have to admit, the Shatner thing here has become like one of those "WASSUP!" commercial phrases that passes for a witty comment at the office, an in-joke deal that unites us all in a common obscurity. And its all because of Little Hawk. The Shatner phenomenon has almost reached a level only previously seen in Spaw's "possum" comments, and the "tiple" and "Neil Young Center" ongoing jokes. It should have shown little staying power, but due to Little Hawks constant Shatner Threads, we seem to be stuck with Shatner as a legitimate Mudcat Icon. Thanks, Little Hawk, and may you do a penance at a Star Trek Convention for your unrelenting propagandizing! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: catspaw49 Date: 22 Apr 02 - 04:51 PM I agree Leej!! I'm proud of the lad! He saw it, went after it, and he got it!!! Now we are all plagued with Shatner as well as Tiples, Cleigh, and the Neil Young Center for the Terminally Screwed. It takes dedication to pull of this icon business and the Hawk has shown he knows his stuff........and to do it with Shatner!!!!! Hellfire, Neil was like fish in a barel compared to Shatner. Shatner's a dork of course, but a lot of folks actually thought there was a NYCFTTS! Congrats Hawk!!! I'm sure Bill will give you a doff of his rug. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Apr 02 - 07:04 PM Yes, I am very, very proud... It may stand as my life's most enduring achievement (now there's a scary thought!). But remember, I could not have done it without the Mudcat. Buncha weirdos in this place... :-) LEJ - LOL! Yeah, I think Nimoy got just sick to death of Shatner over the years. So did certain other members of the cast, rumour has it... - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Joe Offer Date: 22 Apr 02 - 07:09 PM Tell me this: if we hadn't had a post-Trek Shatner, would we have had a Heather Locklear? On second thought, don't tell me... -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: catspaw49 Date: 22 Apr 02 - 07:53 PM Yet another reason to despise Shatner!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:20 PM See Spaw's moronic movie thread... why didn't I think of Shatner. But then, how could you be irritated with Shatner? He was just a guy making a living. Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: catspaw49 Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:23 PM Jerry, I think all of the Trek movies are completely moronic, but I don't like them either! I'm looking for moronic movies that YOU actually LIKE!!! (See the other thread gang...) Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Jerry Rasmussen Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:33 PM The problem is, Spaw, the Star Trek movies ARE often moronic, but the people who like them think that they're great. So, they wouldn't see them as qualifying for your thread... Jerry |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Jeri Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:42 PM Someone told me that the mask used for Friday the 13th (or was it Halloween? I get those 2 movies mixed. It's the one with the guy in the mask that isn't a goalie mask) was actually a very beaten up William Shatner mask. I don't know if that's true or not, but I'm not going to rent the movie to find out. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: hesperis Date: 22 Apr 02 - 08:56 PM "Tired of Shatner?" Yes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: khandu Date: 23 Apr 02 - 01:05 AM Who can be tired of the Great Man? Only those who secretly admire him but openly reject him because his virility is so overwhelmingly macho that it makes them feel like the "Lesser Men" that they are! I, of course, am not threatened by the masculinity that he exudes! khandu |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: CarolC Date: 23 Apr 02 - 01:19 AM The Shatner bit may stand as your life's most enduring achievement, LH, but I'll always remember you for the ODE ON THE MAMMOTH CHEESE, WEIGHING OVER 7,000 POUNDS
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Apr 02 - 06:06 PM Gosh, Carol, I'd forgotten all about that...gotta look it up. I did one on a giant zuchinni once too. Gotta look that up. So much idiocy...so little time... It's a full life, Carol. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 23 Apr 02 - 07:53 PM "A lot of folks actually thought there was a NYCFTTS"
You mean there isn't? Say it ain't so Spaw!
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Apr 02 - 08:03 PM Just jokin' Mac......I'll see you there next week for your Nose Flute Treatments. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Ebbie Date: 23 Apr 02 - 08:44 PM I suspected as much- is it true that Spaw and his cohorts are Mudcat's version of Tammy Faye and hubby's business venture? I'm broken. Not to mention broke. I want my money back, Spaw. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: catspaw49 Date: 23 Apr 02 - 09:03 PM Ebbie you should know better! The staff still talks about your last visit where you ran naked through the James Taylor Catatonic Blandness Rehab Wing and the patients all woke up and started playing their noseflutes to the tune of "Fire and Rain." Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 24 Apr 02 - 10:07 AM (The nose flute) used to be played during funeral ceremonies to converse with the dead. In some regions it was also used between lovers, as it's soft beautiful tone carried surprisingly well through the night air. The nose flute has almost totally disappeared in the region, with only a few surviving players in the Baram River system of Eastern Sarawak... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST,Oscar Wilde (I think) Date: 24 Apr 02 - 10:36 AM "When one is tired of Shatner, one is tired of life" [Crazy Eddie] |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Ebbie Date: 24 Apr 02 - 12:09 PM Until this moment, McG, I didn't know there really was such a thing. It occurs to me that a recorder and a nose flute in tandem could create haunting melodies, using the circular breathing they teach for didgeridoo. (I can just hear a jig.) Perhaps the equivalent of a 'page turner' could stand by in performance and support one or both of the instruments. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Apr 02 - 01:27 PM That reminds me, I have to get a recording of the San Francisco Kazoo Orchestra doing "Fire and Rain". Their version of the theme to "2001 - A Space Odyssey" is one of the most memorable things I have ever heard...definitely NOT bland! I'm sure they could spice up James Taylor considerably. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Ebbie Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:29 PM I'm sorry you brought that up, Spaw. I am so embarrassed. (But it did feel like a good idea at the time.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: catspaw49 Date: 24 Apr 02 - 04:53 PM That's good Ebbie! As you know, one of the mantras of the NYCFTTS comes straight from Neil himself (after gazing off absentedly into space which is his wont), "If it feels good, there goes the flying aardvark." We of course had to modify that a bit to "If it feels good, do it" so that it made any sense at all.......... Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: AliUK Date: 24 Apr 02 - 05:14 PM Talking of The Shatster, I've been watching reruns of Tekwars...he actually acted in that one...well I think it was acting. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Lonesome EJ Date: 24 Apr 02 - 05:54 PM An aspect of Shatner's work often overlooked is his star turn in the series T J Hooker, in which he played a hard-boiled police detective. My favorite episode...well, it was the only one I saw...was a very special one, in which Shatner befriended a young delinquent orphan. The kid was street smart and cynical, and all T J Hooker's efforts taking him to baseball games, going bowling, etc could not convince the kid that it was cool to be straight. Finally, T J said "if you're not busy, I've got a couple of tickets to ...A BEACHBOYS CONCERT!!" then adding "they're old friends of mine." For some reason the kid thinks this is wonderful, and they go to the show. Right after the Beach Boys finish Help Me Rhonda, Mike Love says "we'd like to just take a minute to say hi to a good friend of ours in the audience. TJ, are you out there?" Shatner stands up as the boy gawks at him in wide-eyed idolatry. Then Love says "we use to call him 'The Big Kahoona'." Shatner just stands there grinning and giving Mike Love the "ain no big ting bruddah" sign. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST Date: 25 Apr 02 - 03:58 AM Isn't "shat" the past tense of another word? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Apr 02 - 12:15 PM LEJ - Omigod...what a stunner of a scene! The pathos, the sheer emotion of it all... What delinquent could fail to be moved? I have gotta get that TJH episode out of the vaults at the WSSBA and do a special screening right away! Thank you, thank you! - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: AliUK Date: 25 Apr 02 - 03:45 PM Hey! T J Hooker had Billy bOy and.....HEATHER LOCKLEAR!!!! I mean talk about heaven guys. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST,paolaitaly Date: 26 Apr 02 - 10:29 AM I've been reading the Mudcat forum threads for some week now and there was that "Shatner" here and there, and I was asking myself who the hell was he; and today with the link to his homepage I found , "AAH! CAPTAIN KIRK!!!!! " I' m on Little Hawk side on that - the best Earth Saviour ( ops, Galaxy saviour),that we' ve ever had... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: MMario Date: 26 Apr 02 - 10:44 AM Kirk? Doesn't hold a candle to Duck Dodgers (in the 24rth and a half century) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST Date: 16 Jun 02 - 08:10 AM |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: DaveJ Date: 17 Jun 02 - 01:22 AM I'll give Shatner a #3. I think the late Julie London would make a great icon. At least, she had some talent...musical and otherwise. DaveJ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: DaveJ Date: 17 Jun 02 - 01:28 AM Oops I lost a 'l' on that 'html' in the link. DaveJ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 17 Jun 02 - 01:33 AM Because this thread owes its ONLY credibility to its LONGevity on the site, it propose the MANATEY as the ICON.
1. Its habitat IS also the water.
Considering that the "metaphorical comparison" between SHAT and MANATEY is ZERO...
1. Shat is NOT amusing
ONLY IN FLORIDA can one win a poll of this nature....THEN AGAIN...until this moment another candidate was not advanced for competition.
(Little Hawk - why DID you begin this shit?)
Sincerely,
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: DaveJ Date: 17 Jun 02 - 01:33 AM Julie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST Date: 17 Jun 02 - 06:00 PM yes |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: michaelr Date: 17 Jun 02 - 08:48 PM Jesus Chrysler, there are seven Shatner threads on the board right now! Knock it off, you guys! Michael |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar Date: 18 Jun 02 - 04:19 AM Don't know which news has me more upset: the fact that there's no such thing as the NYCFTTS, or the fact that there *is* such a thing as the noseflute. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Jun 02 - 12:04 PM Friggin' Christ! Even I am getting tired of Shatner at this point... So why did I post here and thus renew the thread? Well, I just couldn't resist some sort of response, at least to Gargoyle, who was kind enough to post some pretty amusing comparisons between Shatner and the common manatee. Gargoyle, you asked "Little Hawk - why DID you begin this shit?" Well, I ask myself that sometimes...in the wee hours of the night... I thought it would be funny. I didn't realize that it would mutate and spread quite so insidiously as it has...but the anonymous GUESTS were not much on my mind at that time. Also, Spaw is to blame. He was doing all that ridiculous stuff with the NYCFFTF (sorry, I mean NYCFTTS!), and Paw and Cletus and all that...and they aren't even REAL! I thought, geez, if he can do all this silly crap and get away with it, why shouldn't I? So I was really just imitating Spaw, and trying to get some Canadian content in while raising a few harmless laughs. I find Shatner's acting style quite amusing (to say nothing of his "singing"). He also used to do some Loblaws ads up here in Canada that were damned funny, although not intentionally so, and further to that a close friend of mine once sold him an ounce of grass. God's truth. That is my explanation. Now, like a mad scientist in a cheap Hammer horror film, I am stumbling around in the wreckage of my laboratory, tearing at my hair, and crying out again and again in desperation, "WHAT HAVE I DONE? WHAT HAVE I DONE!!!???" It's all Spaw's fault! The bugger should be drawn, quartered, castrated, and shot! - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Devilmaster Date: 18 Jun 02 - 12:06 PM "It's all Spaw's fault! The bugger should be drawn, quartered, castrated, and shot!" And that's only AFTER we torture him..... Steve :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST Date: 19 Jun 02 - 12:39 AM Isn't there some sore of "moderator" in this forum? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST Date: 03 Jul 02 - 01:37 AM YES |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST Date: 03 Jul 02 - 01:38 AM YES, YES |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Hecate Date: 03 Jul 02 - 10:29 AM Shatner - has anyone else heard any of his 'recordings' - his .... unusual interpretation of Lucy in the sky with diamonds is enough to make a sensitive soul weep, and the less said about Henry the 5th, the better. You can actually buy it, although why anone would perplexes me (especially when leonard Nimooy's glorious 'ballad of Bilbo baggins' is out there.) Where I come from, we call what he does "Smell the fart acting." You say the line, turn the head slightly taking a long, slow in breath.... smell the imaginery fart.... he does it a lot if you watch closely.
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Jul 02 - 01:42 PM Yes, Hecate, yes! That is a well known Shatner technique, and we have a 4 credit course on it at the WSSBA. A mere 2 semesters of hard work and dedication should prove sufficient to endow a serious student (or a congenital idiot...) with mastery of this acting method. You see, a long slow intake of breath revitalizes the brain cells with oxygen...providing increased alertness and vitality for dealing with the next crisis that arises. This is very useful when dealing with dangerous alien lifeforms or scantily clad space nymphets. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: EBarnacle1 Date: 03 Jul 02 - 03:12 PM If you are tired, don't add to the thread. It will expire on its own. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: Little Hawk Date: 03 Jul 02 - 08:45 PM That's just what I was about to suggest... - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: Tired of Shatner From: GUEST Date: 12 Jul 02 - 11:43 PM Ah...L.H. a cat of his word! |