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25th July 2006, 12:19 AM
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| The Wicked Sword Maiden  Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Australia, Western Australia
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| Beam Me Up Scotty... Not sure if this is the correct place for this newspaper headline.... Tuesday July 25, 07:31 AM Star Trek's Scotty 'beaming up' in Oct The remains of actor James Doohan, who played the starship Enterprise's chief engineer Scotty on Star Trek, will be blasted into space in October, the company organising the flight says. The actor who inspired the catchphrase "Beam me up, Scotty" - even though it was never actually uttered on the show - died a year ago at the age of 85. |
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25th July 2006, 05:26 AM
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| The Wicked Sword Maiden Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Australia, Western Australia
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25th July 2006, 03:58 PM
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| Dragon Writer  Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northamptonshire
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| Re: Beam Me Up Scotty... Not sure if this is really in the spirit of this thread, but the title just brought the story to mind. I would have been about 14 when I read an article in a local paper in West Wales. Paraphrased, it read along the lines of: Carmarthen County Court was amazed yesterday when the case of Mr X was brought to a conclusion. Police Constable Z related the story of his encounter with Mr X to the Court. "I was passing the Santa Clara public house when I observed Mr X driving out of the car park. Having crossed paths with Mr X before, I suspected that he might have had too much to drink. On seeing me pass by, Mr X wheelspun his car out of the car park and drove off in the opposite direction, quickly accelerating beyond the 30mph speed limit." "And what did you do then?" asked Judge J. "I quickly turned my patrol car around and gave chase. As I reached the A40 flyover at St Clears, I was surprised to find that I could see no sign of Mr X's car ahead, despite a considerable straight stretch of road and the traffic lights at the end of the straight being on red. A chance look down onto the dual carriageway revealed why. Mr X had turned turned down the slip road to the A40 on the wrong side of the carriageway and was speeding along the dual carriageway towards Carmarthen against the flow of traffic. Fearing that a major accident was imminent, I turned down onto the correct carriageway and once again gave pursuit. In the face of a stream of oncoming cars, it must have eventually dawned on Mr X that a closing speed of approximately 150mph was not allowing him enough reaction time to safely negotiate the road. I was parallelling his car when he decided to smash through some road cones and join the correct side of the carriageway, narrowly missing my patrol car. Mr X finally realised he was not going to get away and pulled over 9 miles later. A blood test revealed that he had nearly ten times the legal limit of alcohol in his bloodstream." On hearing the evidence, Judge J turned to the defendant and asked him if he had anything to say for himself. The defendent initially replied. "B*gger!" Then he reached into his pocket, pulled out a packet of cigarettes, flipped open the top and said "Beam me up, Scotty!" I did laugh at the impudence of the defendant, but it didn't do him any favours with the judge! |
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25th July 2006, 07:39 PM
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| On the Edge of Sanity  Join Date: May 2006 Location: USA:
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Take care, Jimmy, and may you always have the wind at your back. It's only fitting that he is committed to the depths of space, as he was, in part. the inspiration for opening up the final frontier. | |
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26th July 2006, 10:59 PM
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| Would-be author Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Buckinghamshire
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| Re: Beam Me Up Scotty... Quote:
Here's a link from the BBC News website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...io/4702503.stm It says that "The Space Services Inc company said Doohan's ashes could be on a Falcon 1 rocket launching from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, tentatively scheduled for launch in September." Hope that helps? Cheers, Patrick. | |
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26th July 2006, 11:48 PM
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| Member The Black Company  Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Tennessee
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| Re: Beam Me Up Scotty... This is a link to Space Services Inc. May you voyage never end Scotty! http://www.memorialspaceflights.com/ |
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1st September 2006, 03:16 AM
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| Science fiction fantasy Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Ohio
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| Re: Beam Me Up Scotty... Doohan, you were a Canadian of the old school. You kicked Nazi ass as a Canadian, and Klingon ass as a Scotsmen. Before I realized Next Generation turned the Federation into a smiling Communist dystopia, you and Kirk and Spock made me hopeful for the future! No matter how many David Humes and soccer hooligans Scotland produces, I will always respect them. So here's a toast! To a life well lived, and to a happier place in eternity! Salut!  |
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17th October 2006, 04:30 PM
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| Scottish Roman  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Perth and Kinross
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| Re: Beam Me Up Scotty... Yeah, great way to go, but that accent was godawful,as I remember on a quiz show; "The engines cannae take it, Cap'n !" (pause) "Yes, sorry, that's the correct answer, but you threw me by saying it in a genuine scottish accent." |
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