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We appreciate teevee’s “Mr. Spock,” the 79-year-old photographer Leonard Nimoy, for being a mensch who paid a lot of money to have Griffith Park Observatory rebuilt, and for sneaking in some Kohanic rabbi voodoo into the Star Trek show, and for being an ageless entertainer long after most people are in the rest home. But we especially appreciate this video of Nimoy describing a brief meeting with Barack Obama two years ago — because, you know, Barack is Spock. [YouTube]
Please Lord, take me while I bathe in this figurative climax of geekiness and bleeding-heart liberaldom. Also.
“Fat chicks need love, too, Craig!”
I swear to god, Nimoy is turning into “Bill” from Freaks and Geeks:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/bill%20freaks%20and%20geeks/taytaylorD/bill.jpg
Of course he’s Spock. But hey, Spock never got Ohura, at least not in the long term like Mr. Preznit.
Walnuts’s fingers would have cracked & snapped off had he attempted the Spock sign.
How lucky is Leonard that he did some cheesy lame show 35 years ago for a few years & geeks/nerds are STILL paying to see him??
Boy, that Jewish themes in Star Trek site is a treasure trove! I look forward to many more links to it.
An alternative Vulcan salute is when a man opens his zipper and takes out his Vulcan schlong and shakes it up at down at the person getting the salutation.
Obama wins the fanboy bloc!!!1!
Man he aged. He’s not anywhere close to being green anymore and those pointy things on his ears must be sagging because I can’t see them. I assume botox could solve this problem?
Texan Bulldoggette: Alec Guiness didn’t consider it lucky. More like a curse cuz a whole generation or more of movie-goers only knew him from some cheezy sci-fi flick.
This reminds me of Episode 15, Season 1, when Kirk was waterboarded on Star Base 11 by Muslin terrorist androids.
Texan Bulldoggette:
Cheesy and lame? Heresy! Sacrilege! I’m frowning at you Ms. Texas Bulldogette if that is your real name.
Monsieur Grumpe:Some people have no respect for genius condensed into a forty five minute teleplay
Nemoy looks like Obama. Therefore Obama is an alien, an illegal alien. Will trekkies denounce and reject him?
More at 11.
Videos like this are what happens when you try to work a camera and drub your ding at the same time.
hobospacejunkie: Guiness had already had a distinguished career on stage and in film by then so you couldn’t blame him for getting annoyed by 14 year olds who were admitting to him that they had seen Star Wars 200 times. I wonder if Ian McKellen, one of the greatest Shakespearian actors of a generation, gets pissed off by geeks who only know him as the guy who flies around with a cape and a purple boxing helmet?
WadISay: “drub your ding” ?!? That’s the funniest thing I’ve ever heard!
But what good is a Vulcan Mind Meld with brainless enemies like the Dickless Cheney?
More importantly, though, Nimoy is Galvatron. And do we really want to trust a President endorsed by the insane servant of a planet-eating chaos god?
Cape Clod: I think Sir Ian is probably OK with that. He’s still enjoying being out of the closet after spending the majority of his career in it. Plus he’s not a miserable old sod like Guiness.
proudgrampa:
I sit on the floor and pick my nose
And dream of dirty things.
Of deviant dwarves who suck their toes
And elves who drub their dings.
I sit on the floor and pick my nose
And dream erotic dreams
Of dragons who dress in rubber clothes
And trolls who do it in teams.
As I sit on the floor and pick my nose
And wish for a thrill or two
For a Goblin who goes in for a few no-noes
Or an orc with a thing about glue.
And all of the while I sit and pick
I think of such jolly things.
Of whips and screws and leather slacks
Of frottages and of stings!
x111e7thst:
Is that from Lampoon’s Bored of Rings?
I mean, Bored of THE Rings?
Does this mean that the next time Obama and Cheney have a “fight” it’s going to look a like this. Because I’d pay to see Obama remove Cheney’s “heart.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyhhFzE5O5U
Monsieur Grumpe: Harvard Lampoon’s Bored of the Rings. Yessir. Source of only the finest in poesy, poetry and other things starting with P
I would like to thank Dr. Spock for introducing me to Romulan pussy. The Spires of Avlak is a rough place even with a Galdorian scout, but worth the trip. And for 3 units of latinum alphas, you can get 20 minutes of Romulan vaginal cock melds. It beats one of hour of any Cardasian GFE, I tell you my friend.
I refuse to watch a video of Leonard Nimoy; I am still recovering from his poetry.
x111e7thst: Oh that takes me back. Thank you.
hoosiermama: holy crumbs, is your avatar Isis?
I think I am trapped in some kind of vortex of nostalgia nirvana. I may have overdosed on wonkette this morning. I am going to talk to all of you like children. I am very enigmatic to you now.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Sounds like more of that socialist stuff.
Monsieur Grumpe: Yes, cheesy & lame (case in point: Kirk’s Achilles heel was loud high-pitched noises–eye roll). I did like, however, how Kirk would sleep with any woman on the show; didn’t matter if she was purple & had the head of a grasshopper, as long as she was anatomically correct, he’d nail it.
That’s Mr. Spock. Dr. Spock was the pediatrician/ author of “Your Baby and Child.” I’m not a trekkie and even I know that.
“If you’re a news junkie like I am…”
Sounds like Leonard sits around the house a fair amount.
x111e7thst: For an on-topic LoTR song, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04
Why was Lt Uhuru annoyed? Because William Shat-on-her.
He’s 79!? Is the Vulcan lifespan about 150?
x111e7thst: Thanks to you. Today I am educated!
Texan Bulldoggette: as long as she was anatomically correct, he’d nail it.
Thus becoming a legendary arch-type in the minds of young men everywhere.
Space…the final frontier..seek out new life, new civilizations…to boldly bang what no man has banged before….
Everybody needs a hero, right?
A variation on the Shocker: the Spocker
x111e7thst: Monsieur Grumpe: Yes! Very good! I think the entire quote, in context, was:
I sit on the floor and pick my nose
And think of lovely things:
Of deviant dwarves who suck their toes,
Of Elves who drub their dings.
There’s more, but that’s from memory. Please don’t ask how/why I remember it. I try to make the voices go away, but they.never.go.away.
ManchuCandidate: OK, here’s where I agree with Texas Bulldoggette: that was one lame fight…
No, no, no. Not Spock. Nobama is Tuvok, the black Vulcan, from that crappier Star Trek series, Voyager.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvok
Tim Russ would make a totally dead-on Nobama impersonator.
marioninnyc: Or the one.
Tomorrow’s Fox News headline: “Obama Gave Nimoy ‘Terrorist Hand Salute’ Two Years Ago”
Mr Blifil: Nimoy outed as Wonkette commenter.
star trek and cool jews = bad ass.
Is it wrong that the fact Obama not only knew of the Vulcan salute but could do it makes me love him even more? It’s not that easy to do ya know (try it)
x111e7thst: Sing Listerine, nasonex, clearasil!!!
Rosie Scenario: No, he meant Dr. Benjamin Spock. That man knew how to party.
As Anthony Lane put it last week, “these days Leonard Nimoy makes Bela Lugosi look like Zac Ephron.”
Beau Radley: time to put aside children and things.
Live long and perspire!
WadISay: Y’all are such geeks. I know the parody, which is one of my favorites, and it’s classic.
Texan Bulldoggette:
Shuddap you! That’s Nimoy! That’s Spock you’re talkin’ about!
Best. One. Role. Actor. EVAR.
Monsieur Grumpe:
Jesus, you people are as geeky as I am.
OMG! He touched Hopey! Or Hopey just glanced at him & acknowledged! His blood is no longer green, but made from alchemized gold glitter! I bow to you!
Hey, here is the Renassaince Man of A Million Careers, Leonard Nimoy AKA Mr. Spock! This is from “Return Of The King”, I think someone won an Oscar!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC73PHdQX04
Leonard Nimoy: [appraising the monorail] I’d say this vessel could do at least warp 5.
Mayor Quimby: Yes, and may I say, “May the Force be with you.”
Leonard Nimoy: [annoyed] Do you even know who I am?
Mayor Quimby: I think I do. Aren’t you one of the Little Rascals?
God, I love the way Wonkette rounds up the latest Trek news for me.
“I said, ‘Give me the brandy!’”
Rosie Scenario: You obviously didn’t see episode 12, or NextGen.episode.S33. He has ph.D’s in 124 fields and other certifications you would not understand.