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Dagwood222,

Sorry, but there were science fiction conventions before Star Trek.

en.wikipedia.org/…/1st_World_Science_Fiction_Conv….

You are right that Star Trek conventions were the first time a single show was the focus of a convention, and the Star Trek conventions lead to things like ComicCon.

Dagwood222,

en.wikipedia.org/…/1st_World_Science_Fiction_Conv….

Dagwood222,

So? We still talk about people being ‘three sheets to the wind’ or hanging on to the bitter end.’

Dagwood222,

Find ‘Homicide : Life On The Street.’ He payed a Jesuit educated detective.

I

Dagwood222,

youtu.be/s99ZeamF7J0

Dagwood222,

Not canon, but there was a fan theory that the changes occurred after the tribbles were transported aboard the Klingon ship in TOS.

Dagwood222,

TIL

Thanks

Dagwood222,

Cleopatra 2525

I was around in 2000s and never heard of this. I blame society.

Dagwood222,

Thanks for the info.

I remember the show getting worse with time, but I wasn’t enough of a fan to seek out the gossip.

Dagwood222,

Jack of All Trades,

Had to look that up. Bruce Campbell as a spy/superhero? How could I have missed that one?

Dagwood222,

Cryogenically frozen after a boob job may be the most underused trope of the 1990s.

Dagwood222,

looper.com/…/cult-classic-movies-bombed-box-offic…

I thought that ‘Big Trouble…’ did well but it turns out not to be so.

Dagwood222,

I stayed away when it was in the theaters, then saw that it was on Netflix and figured I’d give it a chance.

So ridiculously good.

Dagwood222,

Xaviera Hollander said that a man isn’t old until there are no women his own age he finds attractive.

Dagwood222,

In Hollywood, the rule is half your age MINUS seven.

Dagwood222,

Or gay?

[jk]

Dagwood222,

Trust me on this.

Children under 5 get a giant Christmas card, the kind the whole office is supposed to sign. Little kids never get mail, so you’ll make their Christmas. Give parents cash to get whatever the kid actually needs.

Children 5 to 10 get a GI Joe or a Barbie. Doesn’t matter if the kid likes that toy, what matters is that they can trade it in the school yard. It’s like sending someone in jail a carton of Newports.

Ages 10 to 20 get cash.

Over 20 gets a nice bottle of booze. Even if they don’t drink, they can regift it easily.

Dagwood222,

Sandy is Worf, and outsider with strength and honor.

Dagwood222,

Try with ‘Nyota.’

Dagwood222,

It’s funny. They are all referred to by their last names [Dr. McCoy, Mr. Scott, Ensign Chekov] but people always assume that ‘Uhura’ is her first name.

Dagwood222,

[off topic] From ‘Cheers’ Same and Woody are discussing music. Sam says that sometimes he’ll rock out to the real old time rock and roll; the Marvelettes; the Four Tops; The Temptations. He asks Woody if he’s ever heard of any of them. Woddy says no, but sometimes his Mom would have him listen to Devo.

Dagwood222,

Jelly baby?

Dagwood222,

See that and raise you!

youtu.be/Mdqv5xIsFLM

Dagwood222,

MegaForce was such a disappointment. You figure that a movie directed by a stuntman would have great action, right? Nope.

Also, Persis Khambatta was in three bomb movies in a row. [not in exact order] MegaForce, Nighthawks, and Star Trek I

Dagwood222,

www.imdb.com/name/nm0144252/

Ted Cassidy imdb.

Dagwood222,

The biography is crazy. He was a reporter in Dallas the day Kennedy was shot.

Also… youtu.be/v010HXpfFSA

Dagwood222,

Is the cat being an android canon?

Dagwood222,

Cool. I was afraid I’d had massive memory loss or missed a season.

Thanks.

Dagwood222,

[off topic]

Kurt Vonnegut said that at some point he realized that the people he’d gone to high school with were running the world.

Dagwood222,

Oh, to be an octogenarian. Must be nice.

That’s my new standard reply to all trolls.

Also, it reminds me of something Joan Rivers said. She said she knew two kinds of old folks; people she’d known growing up, and people she’d met in show business. The friends and neighbors all wanted to talk about the past, and the show biz people would always be excited about the upcoming shows and concerts. I know what kind I’ll try to be.

Dagwood222,

That’s a great idea for any kind of character development.

I’m stealing it.

Dagwood222,

Roger Zelazny wrote that he’d sometimes do an entire story about a minor character in order to flesh him out in his mind.

Dagwood222,

Take a comic book character like Bruce Wayne of Peter Parker. Someone could take one look at them and come up with some dirt. Remember, it doesn’t have to have anything to do with reality. Every pretty girl is a slut, a snob, or a dope. Every big guy is a bully, a moron, or a cream puff.

Dagwood222,

why would the party be asking about the other members?

Look up old time writer Damon Runyon. His short stories inspired the musical ‘Guys And Dolls.’ He wrote about Times Square and the showgirls, gamblers, crooks, bar flies, social workers, servers, bouncers, general riff raff, and hoi polloi that he’d seen.

It’s common in his stories for people to strike up a conversation with a stranger and ask about what’s going on. Even a small time hustler will be known by sight, and a stranger in town is evaluated.

Also, remember that when you ask A about B, A is telling you a lot about themselves. In ‘Stranger Things,’ the boys warn the new girl that the town is full of bullies, which tells her that these are the kids who get bullied.

Dagwood222,

imho they are making a joke. Marx’s bohemian lifestyle is the opposite of what a 9 to 5 corporate workplace demands.

Dagwood222,

“bohemian en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemianism

You are correct. Bohemian = ‘gypsy,’ Free living, free loving, free from the chains of convention.

Dagwood222,

youtu.be/kytxoju-7zU

Dagwood222,

youtu.be/rIK-q6JoOeU

Incredibly relevant

Dagwood222,

Erin Esurance has entered the chat

Dagwood222,

You’re the reason we can’t have nice things!

[jk]

Dagwood222,

Nice idea, but it isn’t going to happen before the 2024 elections. First things first.

Dagwood222,

Back in the day the "Moral Majority’ took over the GOP by taking over the local offices. If the usual attendance at a meeting was twenty folks, the MMs would make sure to show up with 50. It took them a while, but they were persistent.

Dagwood222,

Frederick Douglas was legally barred from voting. He still worked for politicians who wouldn’t promise to end slavery. Was he a dupe? Are you more moral than he was?

Dagwood222,

Thanks for replying for me. I’m sure they know it; they’re just the kind of troll who wants to wrap themselves in a cloak of piety.

Dagwood222,

So, you’re going to unite with Trump. Kissinger always explained that he’d had to kill all those Asians in order to prevent WW3. Henry would be proud of your logic, Frederick not so much.

Dagwood222,

TIL

Dagwood222,

[off topic]

One of my favorite Trek adaptations. Star Trek Leonard McCoy Frontier Doctor.

Dagwood222,

youtu.be/Z3j8kvUtYdY

[off topic?] 1983 movie about some middle class white guys who decide that civilization can’t survive.

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