Hey, I just noticed that the Whistle Annex/Matrix just rolled over 10,000 total hits!
Small potatoes, chump change, de minimus fleabius compared to the Allmighty Chiffboard, but the site stats show that 40% of all hits now originate from Google searches, rather than from links from C&F, so maybe just maybe its helping to inexorably drive more innocent young whistle newbies into the C&F fold.
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See, Admiral, I’m doing good…can I please have some more Special Food now?
On 2002-09-18 16:06, The Weekenders wrote:
What kind of recorder did Capn Kirk play in that movie??? Do you have the answer, young man?
Enders, I’m proud to say I’m not enough of a Trekker to know what the heck you’re talking about. But if you want to find the threads about Picard and the Ressikan flute, you may, of course…
It was a Moeck 3000 sopranino, made of emerald green Klingon birch, with “Neo-lateral German fingering.”
Didn’t Uhura accompany him on Vulcan lyre?
Do you have to half-hole Cnat on that? And isn’t green Klingon birch poisonous? Oh, that would explain the tingling, numb lips sensation you experience when playing it…
I may indeed be a step ahead of you, Enders, if I what I think you are thinking is what in fact you are thinking…(I wonder, can I drink the wine in front of you…?) Let me guess…
You are saying “Gotcha” because I said I am not enough of a “Trekker” to know the answer to your lamer question, and you are about to assert that a true Trek ignoramus would say “Trekkie”, not “Trekker”, and that I have unmasked myself with my own words. Yes? Is that it?
If so, then you’re wrong. I heard this distinction on some TV coverage of a Trek convention once. The only Trek knowledge that I remember is that the rocky blob that laid all those silicone eggs and burned holes in the walls was a Horta and that Harvey Mud had a planet full of beautiful women. Oh, and something about Tribbles. Thats about it.
And if any of my employees showed up for work with skirt as short as Uhurra’s, well, I’d have to, well, uh, well, I cant get any of my employees to wear a skirt as short as uhurra’s…
Dazed, Yer wrong, wrong, wrong!! i dont care about that nomenclature. Its my cap on that dang Picard thing…and symbolic of universal newbie questions.. Ha!! What sounds better, blue or red plastic mouthpieces and so forth…
And geez Walden, I am not a hippie! But the chemistry between kirk and Uhuru should have penetrated even yer Biblebelter filters. Early integration tv and more was implied than allowed. Now they’d have a love child, whod grow up and be stuck on Temptation Island, elimidating a future pop idol… Sheesh, hippie, indeed. I am so FIVE minutes ago!!!
Sadly, I am old enuf to remember seeing that the first time it was broadcast. We had a better, earlier attempt called “Julia” that was really ahead of its time. A single black mother trying to raise a kid…
Some stuff never makes it to reruns but I dont have TVLand so I dunno. They dont show “Lincoln Vale and Florida Everglades” either, a truly great show that Dazed would appreciate in gator-land.
Also, campy Captain Nice and its CBS competitor, Mr. Terrific. Would be worth a few evenings of retro pleasure to show these things. Maybe they got erased with old copies of the Tonight Show…
There was more to talk about when there were only three networks and channels.
On the other hand, it was hard to escape Aaron Spelling productions! But we did have Rod Serling, the king of the furrowed brow…with omnipresent cigarette…
Man, Ive become a geezer… how did that happen anyhoo?
Nope, slightly too young to even be a hippie. During the Summer of Love, I was between 5th and 6th grade. HA! 'Of course there was a delayed reaction in the outlying towns surrounding Berkeley and SF. My yearbook photos from high school prove that. But Haight-Ashbury became a very ugly place from about 68 on…all we ever heard about were drug-dealing murders and such. Didnt help having Zodiac and Zebra killers aboot either.
So, Walden, if you want to be accurate, hippie can be a very specific term limited to a relatively small group of older Baby Boomers.
No, no, no, no. There’s still hippies, with their long hair and their flower powers, and their love beads, and their Kentucky Headhunters CD’s, I tell you for sure.
Yeah, I remember going to the Renn Faire in SF in the early 70’s (Black Forest, wasn’t it?), which not only drew the medieval reenactment crowd but also the residual hippie element, and there was always a bit of controversy about all the tie-dyed and headshop goods that infiltrated and “contaminated” the period authentic medieval marketplace.
Sometimes revisionist history is preferable. At least at the SF Renn Fair all the wenches had all of their teeth!
