BS: Shatner

Subject: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 11:16 PM

If William Shatner didn't exist would it be necessary to invent him?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 11:19 PM

Well...giving it some serious thought here...
















No. I don't think it would be necessary to invent him if he didn't exist.

Anyway, just give thanks that he does, okay? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: John on the Sunset Coast
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 11:26 PM

Except for his singing, William Shatner is a more than competent talent.
His current show, which I was prepared to dislike, actually is often quite good, and Shatner makes this seemingly loathsome person, into an often quite caring man...it reminds me of my late cousin, a loud, crude pawn broker (I thought), but when somebody needed to step up in the family when there was a crisis, it was he.

Shatner also conducts an interview program which I've seen parts of two episodes, and he's really into it.

So, no, it wouldn't be necessary to invent him; he has earned his spot in this world and the various media.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 11:50 PM

We should all give thanks. I know I do.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Dorothy Parshall
Date: 19 Feb 11 - 11:57 PM

Must be a man thing.

ICK!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: mousethief
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 12:07 AM

Shoop, shadooby. Shatner.
Shoop, shadooby. Shatner.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 12:23 AM

Some women found him QUITE sexy in his younger days. Some may still, for all I know.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 12:25 AM

Sexy? The words "corpulent" and "bloated" come to mind, but not sexy...

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 12:30 AM

Some men as well. I'm hetero but I could easily turn gay for Captain Kirk.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Gurney
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 12:41 AM

!!?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 01:21 AM

??!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 07:25 AM

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Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: olddude
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 08:54 AM

I was watching American Pickers, those guys that go around and pick through junk and sell it .. Bill and his wife called them to find them some stuff for their new country cottage. It was kinda fun to see him with his wife talking about their country home and the renovations with the junk guys. His wife has to be 40 years younger than him ...

It was fun to watch them talk about stuff at home

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: SPB-Cooperator
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 08:58 AM

I am sure that the toupee industry has a lot to thank Shatner for.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,number 6
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 10:54 AM

???


who really gives a rat's ass


biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 03:48 PM

Bill's terriers at the stable?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 04:10 PM

Oh come now! Why would Lt Ahoura and her little mini-skirt have gone on a five year misssion and given her constant support to him on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, had he not been possessed of that curious kind of sexual magnetism that overweight men like myself and Bill Shatner are so famous for?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Joe Offer
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 04:12 PM

biLL asks: who really gives a rat's ass

Mousethief cares. J-boy cares.

So we humor them....


-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 04:19 PM

There you have it in a nutshell, Alan. That was why Uhura was there. No question about it. Also, Shatner was not noticeably overweight at the start of that 5-year mission. He did...umm...expand a little as the series went on, particularly after it was into reruns.

There is really only one man who comes very, very close to the incredible smouldering sex appeal of William Shatner. So close does this man come that it could be said they are in a dead heat for the top prize. And that man is.... (drum roll)

THE ONE....THE ONLY...........IT'S.............!!!!!!!

You don't forget seeing an act like that. Never.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 04:19 PM

Billybob has more comedic talent that elicits humour than all of his detractors combined. He's been entertaing and making people laugh for many, many years.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 06:04 PM

True. His book "Get a Life" is a very funny and entertaining read. I recommend it highly to anyone who needs to get one (a life, I mean). And if, like me, you're posting here on a daily basis...you might! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 11:36 PM

As a struggling young actor Bill survived on fruit salad from Woolworth's diner. To this very day he can't bear the thought of eating fruit salad.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 20 Feb 11 - 11:39 PM

I daresay.

I didn't eat a single egg for about five years after moving out of my parent's place (where we ALWAYS had eggs for breakfast).

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Gurney
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 01:39 PM

He's here! He's here! We're expecting J-boy at any time now.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Gurney
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 01:43 PM

Tony Clifton. Thanks for bringing that to our attention, LH.


Now could you please take it away again.

Please!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 02:28 PM

He laid down a pretty good performance a few decades ago in the Andersonville Trial teleplay. Tended to overact, even in early Star Trek, but good, bad, or indifferent, ST was about the only thing going. (I mean, Lost in Space? Now, really!!).

Later on, he became a parody of himself. Some of which, I suspect, is intentional.

Toupee!?? I'd always thought it was his pet hamster!!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 03:34 PM

Well, it was actually a pet tribble...initially. They're a bit like hamsters, but they don't have any legs, mouth or eyes. Thus they are almost perfect for use as a toupee, but only while hibernating, because they wiggle and squeak during the waking cycle.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 06:27 PM

Interestingly enough, there is actually a website/blog devoted to The Man and His Rug.

Shatner's Toupee

Jay

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 09:42 PM

So wantonly cruel! How crueller than a serpent's tooth is the smart ass tv couch potato!

Surely you remember the great speeches he gave, how the nations of the world were with him to man when he said Phasers on Stun, or Alright Warp factor Eight, and Beam me up Scotty! How every heart leapt when Uhuru gave him one of those, 'I want to sleep with this wonderful man' looks.

And now you mock his grey follicles and size 5XL Starship Uniform. Oh base ingratitude for pleasures past!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Feb 11 - 09:43 PM

Since "he" doesn't exist, why worry about his non-existent hair?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 12:13 AM

Denny Crane? Genius.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 01:06 AM

Denny Crane would dispose of a Philistine like Rapparee with just a few well-chosen words and a dismissive wave of his hand...

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 03:10 AM

If William Shatner didn't exist would it be necessary to invent him?

Illogical, Jim!!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Bert
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 03:55 AM

Actually, Little Hawk DID INVENT HIM.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 03:57 AM

Shatner's LP "The Transformed Man" was a brilliant and revolutionary album. Never has anyone combined Shakespeare,pop music and philosophy with such sublime perfection.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Les from Hull
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 09:39 AM

I agree with your statement up to a point, 'Never has anyone combined Shakespeare, pop music and philosophy'.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 10:30 AM

If Shatner exists, let "him" give us A Sign.

See?

Nothing happened.

QED.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 10:41 AM

Shatner's "Raw Nerve" series is very well done.   Frankly, its the best thing I ever saw him do!

Hey Dan.....I saw he and his wife on American Pickers too........and I'll bet you and I are the only two in the joint who own uo to watching that show.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 01:46 PM

Well, I sure as hell never have...

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 07:08 PM

My wife watches it, sometimes, until it gets too gross. I mean, all the way up to the second knuckle? C'mon.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 07:30 PM

Why not, LH? What is it about?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 10:57 PM

I would assume it's about American geee-tar and banjo pickers. (?)

I'm just having fun razzing my old buddy, Spaw, by implying that his viewing tastes are beneath contempt and beyond the pale (or as Shane would say: "the pail"). ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 11:45 PM

It's about digitally abusing your nasal passages.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 22 Feb 11 - 11:48 PM

Captain James T. Kirk has never been the same, though, since Dr. 'Bones' died! When he was doing Uhura, he took himself to 'where man has never gone before'....and got a case of the Tribbits...no longer could he beam himself up! To make matters worse, he got lockjaw, while being seasick...then his head blew apart!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 12:24 AM

So his dalliance with Lt. Uhura (as well as all those exotic alien female life-forms) qualifies as "where no man has gone before"?

Hmmmm....

Gives new meaning to the constant references to the "Captain's Log."

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 01:31 AM

How about a 'Star Date' entered by the Captain's Log? or avoiding the 'black hole at warp speed'?

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 05:27 AM

What was wrong with Lost in Space?!! I loved that robot, it had such a personality.

Which is why I love William Shatner not a sexual thing at all, he just reminds me of a big teddy bear.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Gurney
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 02:06 PM

Patsy, perhaps you shouldn't tell him that.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,999
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 03:06 PM

`'Never has anyone combined Shakespeare, pop music and philosophy'.`

Seamus Kennedy did.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 03:25 PM

Good cover yer ass, Seamus.

""So his dalliance with Lt. Uhura (as well as all those exotic alien female life-forms) qualifies as "where no man has gone before"?""

No... "where no man has come before".

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Raptor
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 06:32 PM

Am I the only one who caught mousetheifs stones reference?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Feb 11 - 09:37 PM

You may well be, Raptor. My suggestion is that a Canadian parliamentary committee be formed to investigate:

1. If that is indeed so.

And...

2. What we should do about it if it is...

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Gurney
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 12:08 AM

Certainly went right over my head.

Still has, unless it should have been Stones rather than stones.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 02:11 AM

The kiss between Uhura and Kirk led many southern stations to drop Star Trek from their schedules. Did they know that Sally Hemmings and Thomas Jefferson were lovers? And if so what precisely were they afraid of? Why are so many still afraid? Being an ignorant Yankee without any sympathy for the Glorious Cause I'd like to learn.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 02:41 AM

Sorry, got way too serious for this thread. My real question is "Rice Krispies squares. An honest dessert or not?"

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 06:31 AM

I think those southern boys were maybe onto something. Never forget Uhuru wore red panties, which might indicate she had communist leanings.

I wouldn't mind looking into it.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 07:18 AM

Rice Krispie squares are a bit of a novelty the first time you try them but get a bit boring after a while so I would much rather have a cupcake as a decent dessert especially the ones made in a certain shop in Salisbury, they are heaven!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 24 Feb 11 - 03:22 PM

'Which is why I love William Shatner not a sexual thing at all, he just reminds me of a big teddy bear.'

Sorry can't agree there. Bill was interplanetary sex personified. Even that sexy young folk group The Spinners were influenced in their choice of casual stagewear. It was called the Shatner effect. Women stood no chance....sexually, intergalactically....it was a done deal, they were swept off their feet.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 02:36 AM

Orion green-skinned slave girls. Yes or No?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Will Fly
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 04:16 AM

Bones: "He's not dead, Jim - this man has no brain."

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 04:39 AM

It's life but not as we know it.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Ron Davies
Date: 25 Feb 11 - 10:21 PM

Shatner has a great gift for deadpan comedy.    He has shone, of all places, on Brad Paisley videos.

Particularly "Celebrity".    Brad as hopeful in contest in which Shatner is chief judge.

Shatner:   "I liked the end of the song"

Brad:   "You mean when it goes high?"

Shatner:   "No, I mean the end of the song, when it finished."    And waves Brad off dismissively.


And "Online"

Shatner online:   "I'm making new friends."

His wife:   "Why are all your friends so.....chesty."

Shatner:    "They are?"

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 12:00 AM

Some of you newer members probably aren't aware that Little Hawk was originally mistaken for a Rice Krispies treat when he first joined the 'Cat.....................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Gurney
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 01:52 AM

LH has a well-developed sense of humour, and I have sometimes wondered if it has in any way influenced his choosing his Mudcat name. There is one meaning of 'little hawk' that is purely biological; it precedes a spit! ;-)

Nice to see 'spaw back with us.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 10:19 AM

Rice Krispies treats are insipid, sickly-sweet, horrible little things.

There ya go, Spaw... Good straight man line, eh? ;-)

My choice of Mudcat name had solely to do with memories of a probable past life of mine spent among the Lakota. It's an American Indian name. I was using it as a nickname long before I joined Mudcat Cafe.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 02:38 PM

You could have just as easily chosen Snap, Crackle, or Pop.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Feb 11 - 06:17 PM

Yes...but why?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 01:48 AM

Have anyone ever eaten butterscotch Rice Krispies squares while watching Season Three, Episode One "Spock's Brain"? Sounds like a good combo to me. Provided you don't have any hallucinogens handy.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 02:47 PM

LH... you were a rice krispie in one of your former lives.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 08:13 PM

Fortunately, it was a very brief one... ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Gurney
Date: 27 Feb 11 - 10:30 PM

Born in a bog, puffed up, a dark period, a moment of milk and honey....;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 12:10 AM

A more eloquent description of Shatner's career I will never hear Gurney.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 12:15 AM

Dear Merciful Buddha, Why did I start this thread? PS: I want a pony and a plastic rocket.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 05:01 AM

I've never experience a butterscotch Rice Krispie square, if I get really really bored I just might, but then again why?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 11:26 AM

Why indeed? Here I've been wanting to experience Winona Ryder, and I have to wonder why anyone would wish to experience a Rice Krispie square? ;-D

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 28 Feb 11 - 04:38 PM

"butterscotch Rice Krispie square"? Yeech! Blasphemy I say!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 12:10 AM

Don't forget the peanut-butter Shatner squares. Waa? Now I'm confused.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 03:43 AM

Well LH I suppose you could mould the RK square into the shape of Winona Ryder and at least you will be half way there.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Gurney
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 04:21 AM

Patsy, Patsy! How could you think that halfway would be enough for a man who has gazed on the glory that is Winona!

A different piece of crackling entirely.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 05:14 AM

I don't know how you lot got onto rice crispies and Winona Ryder, but this thread was started to celebrate the life and achievements of William Shatner.

Shatner's depiction of a fearless space traveller in the company of a beautiful woman in a mini skirt is one of the rocks on which our civilisation depends.

Come on now! warp factor 10.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 07:37 AM

Sorry we were blown off-course a bit, anyway, William Shatner hmmm....
Nicer smile than that 'Hoff' fella.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Mar 11 - 12:51 PM

Shatner is the very embodiment of the male archetype, a figure of inspiration for men to aspire to and women to yearn for. If he did not exist, think of the yawning gulf that would appear in our collective cultural heritage!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 12:27 AM

Bill's act of mercy when refusing to kill the Gorn in "Arena" so impressed the Metroids that the human race was saved. Saved perhaps so we could produce the sublime and beautiful Winona Ryder. And rice krispies squares.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 12:43 AM

Brilliantly put, J-boy. You know, I think I can get you an honorary doctorate at the WSSBA (William Shatner School of Baaaad Acting), located just outside beautiful, scenic Orillia, Ontario, Canada.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 12:54 AM

I am sooo...not worthy LH. However I would accept an honorary doctorate from the Nimoy Academy of Music.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 01:09 AM

I am impressed by your modesty. Yes, "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" was very inspirational, so I definitely get your drift on that.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 01:19 AM

Bilbo certainly was "The greatest little hobbit of them all" But Nimoy's version of Proud Mary always leaves me speechless.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 01:41 AM

It probably had a similar effect on Ike and Tina Turner. How do you follow a musical act like Leonard Nimoy?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 02:06 AM

With a healthy dose of butterscotch rice krispies squares and a listen to Bill's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. You'll never be the same after that. Winona and I can confirm this.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Alan Whittle
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 05:09 AM

The trouble with you guys you have no reverence.

I remember a time when Captain Kirk influenced the outcome of the gunfight at the OK Corral. And he took on Jack the Ripper.

Not to mention all those interplanetary miles on the flight deck goingt hrough the darkness at warp factor ten, without once slipping his hand up Uhuru's skirt on camera and squeezing her bum. Most men couldn't manage a twenty second ride on the tunnel of love without falling to temptation.

This is a man made of steel.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 05:25 AM

It would not be logical to even try to follow Leonard Nimoy's musical skills, something to do with those Vulcan ears that picking up musical soundwaves so well.

J-boy tell me how can you possibly have a healthy dose of BRK squares? even Spock would say that! It's an empty calorie, you would be better off getting healthy energy from porridge and maybe a little butterscotch syrup added for the sugar energy boost. A square of BRK is only going to give enough energy to last about 5-10 minutes.

Anyway Mr.Depp is still looking good, just thought I would mention it.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 02 Mar 11 - 03:19 PM

Patsy... first the BRKSs and now on oatmeal? Sick puppy! The LAW says only brown sugar on oatmeal. Hey, I don't make the laws...

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 12:59 AM

Do you suppose Winona and Bill have ever met? Probably not since the universe is still here. Unless you understand string theory. Oh wait, nobody understands string theory. Except maybe Leonard Nimoy.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 01:16 AM

Eleven dimensions? I can barely handle three. Let's not even talk about the fourth. Rod Serling made a good case for the fifth however.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 04:30 AM

The Fifth.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 01:05 PM

I don't know if Winona's met Bill, but she may have, I suppose. She has met Johnny Depp, and that turned out to be pretty historic.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Don Firth
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 04:23 PM

Forget the Rice Krispies. I'm working on a way of extracting the butter and leaving pure scotch!

(That's MY bid for immortality.)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 07:21 PM

Would somebody care to explain the fixation on this site with William Shatner. Here in the UK he is a bloke from a sixties television programme that wore a wig.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 07:29 PM

I thought it was Shatner that wore the wig, not the television programme.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 07:31 PM

100 (as Malcolm McDowell said, somebody had to)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Richie Black (misused acct, bad email)
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 07:41 PM

I see your moustache is getting in your eyes again Dave.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 07:48 PM

Not mine.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 08:25 PM

Richie, you appear to be one of those poor souls who does not grasp the sheer grandeur of William Shatner, a man who has provoked what some term "Culture Shift", thereby altering the whole warp and weave of Western civilization. Past experience suggests to me that no amount of explanatory exposition will amend that flaw in your perception. It's kind of like people who don't have the ability to look beyond mere surface appearances like this...

Look closely now!

....to the deeper significance that lies within, the gold, as it were, concealed inside the shiny outer wrapper.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 03 Mar 11 - 08:51 PM

The Cherry. Another icon of Canuckness.

Hard fer some to understand, but, it is what it is.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 12:42 AM

Nathan Fillion has since assumed the time honoured mantle of Canadian space-ship captain. Firefly was A Magnificient Space Opera. All fourteen episodes. Thanks for killing it FOX!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 04:55 AM

It was worth a giggle to watch him run in the 'Hooker' cop series, he will always be in my memory for that alone. Bless him.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 10:05 AM

Many years ago, there was a show on one of our local public access television stations called That's Irritainment. It consisted of nothing but clips that were so strange (or just plain bad) that they had to be seen to be disbelieved, leaving indelible scars in our brain tissue and wondering if we should hurl our television sets out the nearest window...or just hurl.

One such clip that remained stained in my memory, I see has now been posted to YouTube. All those nights of waking up shaking in a cold sweat came rushing back to me as I typed these words:

1992 MTV Music Awards.
William Shatner "sings" (talks, actually) I Want To Sex You Up.

Click here.

You have been warned.

Jay

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 01:50 PM

Wow. Words fail me. (for the moment...)

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 04 Mar 11 - 01:54 PM

I got words... NO WAY most people (w)could do that with a straight face. The man will do anything, and everything, to get a laugh. A tip of the hat to him.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: J-boy
Date: 05 Mar 11 - 12:57 AM

Shatner at the closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics was wonderful. Do any of you have a link?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: gnu
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 09:34 AM

MONTREAL - The billionaire businessman behind Virgin Galactic says William Shatner — and other celebrities — shouldn't expect any free rides into space.

The space-tourism enterprise is already taking reservations for flights which could begin sometime next year.

But it's become clear that the actor who played Captain James T. Kirk, perhaps the world's most famous fictional spaceman, is not among the 440 people from 40 countries planning to go up.

"William Shatner has said that he's scared to go into space and it's quite ironic really when you think of his career," company founder Sir Richard Branson told The Canadian Press.

"And, like most celebrities, he would like a freebie."

The 80-year-old actor recently admitted he did not want to boldly go anywhere beyond the Earth's atmosphere.

"I'm scared,'' Shatner said after he was given an honorary doctorate at his alma mater, Montreal's McGill University.

Branson suggested the Star Trek actor is in the minority.

"Most people are unlike William Shatner," he added. "I would say nine out of 10 people — if they could afford it — would love to go into space."

Branson, who also has his hand in a number of airlines, says he won't be offering any deals.

"I'm in the airline business and a lot of people ask for upgrades and we're not going to get the same thing happening with our space program."

Branson says since Shatner isn't interested, perhaps other crew members of the fictional USS Enterprise, like "Spock" (aka Leonard Nimoy), would jump at the chance.

"We'll have to go out and ask them," he added. "We haven't actually yet, but I promise you we will."

The sub-orbital flights Virgin plans to offer would send a spaceship into space, without actually completing an orbit of the Earth.

After being launched from the mother ship, a two-piloted rocket plane would take six tourists about 110 kilometres above Earth — where they would briefly experience weightlessness.

The cost of a seat is $US200,000.

Virgin Galactic has already taken deposits of just under $55 million. StarShipTwo, the mothership, is currently undergoing testing.

Shatner recently recalled that Branson had offered him a spot — if he paid his way.

"I said, 'Well, that's not much, (but) how much do you guarantee to come back?' And he didn't have a price on that,'' Shatner quipped.

"He (Branson) wanted me to go up and pay for it and I said: 'Hey, you pay me and I'll go up. I'll risk my life for a large sum of money.' ... But he didn't pick me up on my offer.''

It was widely reported in September 2006 that the Star Trek legend was offered a ticket by Branson aboard Virgin Galactic's first passenger flight, which was originally planned for 2008.

At the time, Shatner said he was worried about getting sick.

"I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me,'' he said at the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 10:31 AM

If only we had this kind of honesty in politics!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 11:24 AM

I don't think that Shatner is afraid of space per se. I think he is afraid of going into space in Branson's rickety little spam can. If he could be beamed up into a vessel large enough for a crew of 400 powered by controlled antimatter/matter reactions then he would be there in a flash.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: BrooklynJay
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 01:16 PM

At the time, Shatner said he was worried about getting sick.

"I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me,'' he said at the time.

I think he was probably more worried about playing "catch the floating toupee" in near-zero gravity!

Jay

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Jun 11 - 09:30 PM

Even in near-zero gravity Shatner has enough body mass to avoid becoming a floater...

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 20 Jun 11 - 08:24 AM

Branson would be the last person who could reasure me about going into space considering some of his disasterous exploits, I would happily wave someone else to go and keep my two feet on the ground.