Star Trek... Inspirational Posters? 202
Noryungi writes "Hot on the heels of Despair dot com, here comes... the Star Trek Inspirational Posters!. Imagine a mind-meld of Mr Spock, Despair's demotivational attitude and the Linux Distro Parodies, and you have one heck of a funny site. If you are a true Trekkie, don't click on the link, as this is certainly going to offend you..."
These...are...great (Score:2, Funny)
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Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Ensign Ricky are beaming down to the planet. Guess who's not coming back.
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For some reason, I love the first one.
Though, the "Makeup Sex" one made me pull a muscle in my back laughing.
Star Trek Humor, either you get it or you get laid...
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TNG (Score:5, Funny)
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Evan
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Telepaths
Be glad you're not around during her period. She'd really know how to be a bitch.
Re:TNG (Score:5, Funny)
The real question... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The real question... (Score:3, Funny)
This provides a detailed answer to your question.
Re:TNG (Score:2)
I'll take my 10% now thanks
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Mea luv sleshdat, warr speling iss kang!
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n.
A hardy wheat grown mostly in Europe.
[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin spelta, probably of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Dutch spelte, wheat.]
Re:TNG (Score:2)
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Re:TNG (Score:3, Funny)
Spelt .. Spelled ... let's call the whole thing off!
Now if you're gonna fight you'll have to go outside!
[Oh for the love of god]
do I get expelled?
Won't someone think of the chiltren?
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TNG/HHGTTG crossover (Score:5, Funny)
Wesley's picture, with the caption:
"... the one thing they really couldn't stand was a smartass"
Re:TNG/HHGTTG crossover (Score:2)
Or a shot of Picard, leaning to his right in his chair, with the caption, "Mister Worf's head looks like a hiney!"?
OMG...Eugene Wesley Roddenberry? Can't be!
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Now - someone (please?) really needs to do a php version
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A church near my house has one of those signs. One monday on the way to work, it said "WE CAST OUT DEVILS!" The next morning, a prankster decided to chang it to it read "WE CAST OUT ELVIS!"
Re:TNG (Score:2)
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Cheers!
Hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
You must be new here. Despair has been around quite a while.
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Tribbles! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Tribbles! (Score:3, Funny)
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Tribbles... (Score:3, Funny)
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"Tribbles - better than gerbils and duct tape"
Re:Tribbles... (Score:2)
http://jwz.livejournal.com/543178.html [livejournal.com]
Hamsters, not gerbils, but close enough perhaps...
Re:Tribbles... (Score:2)
Leading to:
"Your hamster's dead, Jim!" -- McCoy
"Actually, Doctor, I believe it was a Terbilian Fighting Hamster." -- Spock.
For Your convenience. (Score:5, Informative)
Here's a working mirrordot link
http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/3a7776fd00fb4320
all this and ad supported (Score:2, Funny)
Sigh, slashdotted again (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Sigh, slashdotted again (Score:3, Informative)
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Re:Sigh, slashdotted again (Score:5, Interesting)
Why the @#*&! do the require a password before they will allow someone to give them money!? With a hundred hits per second or so of Slashdotters getting the "Bandwidth limit / Please try again later" message, you know it would be a whopping 29 seconds before some random visitor tosses $2.95 into the pot just to see the damn page.
Ok... if they are worried about legal issues relating to authorisation from the original site creator to continue serving the content, fine. Just put a check box on the account creation page to saying "Allow anonymous donatations to help pay my bandwith bill?" and default the checkbox to "accept" while you're at it.
It's good for the hosting company. It's good for the site creator. It's good for vistors to the site. It's a Win Win Win all around.
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Re:Sigh, slashdotted again (Score:3, Interesting)
That's quite the dillema... (Score:2)
Shame it's all old trek (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shame it's all old trek (Score:2)
(It's funny Wil, laugh!)
You're the inspiration! (Score:5, Informative)
Who needs posters? In memoriam James Doohan. The longest surviving "Red Shirt" on the USS Enterprise, his "Scotty" set the standard for generations of geeks and engineers. Working with the latest future technologies, often experimental, under a demanding boss for whom FTL travel, teleporters, galactic communications and more firepower than all of 20th Century Earth combined weren't enough to cakewalk through missions on any given week, Scotty's role model has influenced millions of 20th Century predecessors. His ingenuity, fortitude, and sense of humor while telling the boss that his demands are insane, but doable, even under excruciating time pressure floating around a newly discovered dimension, are an inspiration to us all. Mr. Doohan, in your new journey, go as boldly as you led us in all your merely astral journeys on our televisions, and in our imaginations.
Anyway, isn't this a 4chan [4chan.org] fad? What's next, posting YTMND [ytmnd.com] sites on Slashdot's front page?
Re: You're the inspiration! (Score:2)
Oh! Oh! Here! [ytmnd.com] And here! [ytmnd.com] Even more! [ytmnd.com] Yet More! [ytmnd.com] Ha ha ha, lol! [ytmnd.com] OMGWTFUSS1701D! [ytmnd.com] And not forgetting this [ytmnd.com]!
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And in the same vein (Score:4, Interesting)
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Not that I could tell you if the star trek ones are any better, having no chance to see them...
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Managed to save one (Score:5, Informative)
Here's the one I saved.
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/6555/inspcaptk
Good luck finding the rest.
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rj
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+5 Informative turns
+5 Irony.
Gahhh, why the hell did I reply in Haiku? I hate Haiku. I *really* hate Haiku.
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offended? (Score:5, Funny)
Offend?
{raised eyebrow}
To be offended by an attempt at humor would not be logical.
I can't believe no one pointed this out yet. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I can't believe no one pointed this out yet. (Score:3, Insightful)
You didn't pass. You might want to avoid the link. However, since the link totally broken, its a moot point now.
What? No Tribbles? (Score:2, Funny)
Hope this helps (Score:2, Informative)
Inspirational Poster ... for RATS (Score:4, Funny)
I "stumbleUpon.com"'d these the other day (Score:2)
I actually saw these the other day with the StumbleUpon tool (Stumble with this [stumbleupon.com]. I've seen lots of neat things... the tool can be pretty addictive, sometimes.
JAMES T. KIRK (Score:2)
"I'm sorry, I can't hear you over how awesome I am."
Also, someone just told me there's more than one page, and now I'll never know what's on them. damn tubes.
I see you visit Lifehacker... (Score:2)
Nomad is incorrect... (Score:2)
"See the universe, meet interesting people, and clean them to death."
After all, how did "Nomad" happen?
Trekkier than thou (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, if you are a true Trekkie, you would call yourself a Trekker, and spend several hundred hours defending this naming convention in various news groups, and in arguments with actors who may have once appeared on the damn show.
Trust me on this; I'm sort of an authority.
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Funny? (Score:2)
Re:Weird (Score:3, Funny)
I'm having trouble parsing that sentence. You wouldn't happen to be from a primitive planet where they nonetheless speak broken English, would you?
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Earth?
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You must be too young (Score:5, Insightful)
Even though it is 40 years old, over the top, campy, and hilariously non politically correct, I find it better than most of the crap on TV nowadays (or perhaps I am just too old).
Re:You must be too young (Score:4, Informative)
We (my family) were at some friends house for a party just for that show. My father and the host worked together at Goddard Space Flight Center for NASA)
At that time, the show and special effects were near cutting edge, and a lot of the concepts in the show were new and strange- cool!
The plots were standard fare, but that's true of any show- it's damn near impossible to come up with a totally original, never been done before story line and plot. All of the basic ones have been done for centuries I guess.
Re:You must be too young (Score:2)
Was Star Trek one of the first shows aired in color? If so, was that part of the appeal? Erm... Apologies for the phrasing of that question. I'm not asking because I'm gunning for a 'gimmick' argument. I'm just curious. I'm under the impression that the 60's was a heck of a decade for a geek like me, I'm just fishing for more info. It must have been an interesting time
space travel (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:You must be too young (Score:5, Insightful)
No, color was gradually introduced over the course of the early 1960s, and most primetime shows had switched to color by the time Star Trek debuted. It was still a novelty in those days, and Trek's primary-colors palette was designed to take advantage of it, but it had plenty of "in living color" competition for the attention of viewers (well, as much competition as two other networks could offer). On the other hand, keep in mind that the majority of homes still had black and white TVs (meaning the only way many viewers could identify expendable security officers was by the darkness of their shirts). So I wouldn't pin much of its appeal on color.
Trek's novelty came mostly from new-to-TV special effects, its relatively serious approach to sci-fi (contrast with "Lost in Space"), and its flirtation with ideas in an era of "Gilligan's Island", "I Dream of Jeannie", and "Gunsmoke".
Re:You must be too young (Score:3, Interesting)
Moon landings- wow! Yes!
As for the rest of your post, I'll refer you to this:( by zogger (617870) Friend of a Friend on Sunday August 13, @04:07PM (#15899474)
(http://technocrat.net/ | Last Journal: Wednesday July 05, @06:31PM)
60's were str
Re: Not Minuses (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:You must be too young (Score:2, Insightful)
Think back, Dude, and I think you will discover that it defined political correctness of the time.
It's a remarkable cultural document.
KFG
Re:You must be too young (Score:2)
I read that first as "historical document."
Heh.
Re:Weird (Score:4, Insightful)
I never really enjoyed FireFly or Farscape. Is that because my tastes are 'superior' to everybody else's, or is it because everybody else is getting something I'm not? I'd love to go with the former, afterall it's more flattering. Chances are, though, it's the latter. My point is that I wouldn't go around elevating myself because I don't like a popular show.
Re:On purpose? (Score:4, Insightful)
They could email and ask? When you can take small websites completely offline with the amount of traffic Slashdot gets, it's irresponsible to not give any warning or caching, especially when your excuse [slashdot.org] is that you just can't wait six hours for this "cool breaking story". Hands up everybody who just couldn't wait another six hours to see Star Trek posters?
Or, if you want the techie approach, something similar to robots.txt would be simple for high-traffic websites like Slashdot to respect.
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Re:On purpose? (Score:2)
The only articles I really enjoy are the interviews because they're the only unique content I don't know already, except for
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Re:Does the Enterprise run on Linux?? (Score:2)
And yes, there were "Linux is ready for the Enterprise" jokes made at the time.