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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
For the nerd who has everything
NCC-1701 Pizza Cutter
Someone, I won't say who, told me recently that he reads everything of mine except the Star Trek posts.
Since we are in a confessing mood...I don't read the ST posts either. I'm trying to figure out why I have no interest in ST, for certainly I spent (note: spent, not misspent)much of my childhood watching TV. I think there must have been something on opposite Star Trek that I preferred---I Spy? Mission Impossible? Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? Lost in Space? And....are you ready for this ... I haven't actually seen a single issue of Star Trek, or any of the movies. There. I've said it. Can I stay? I know what you mean about the younger generation though. When I'm marking papers, if the logic or syntax is at the danger point of breaking down utterly, I will write in margin, "Danger Will Robinson", which they don't ever seem to get.
It's a duty for all young people to learn the correct verse-and-response to all pop culture references since the 1960s. They are otherwise simply cultural illiterates.
That is what God gave us YouTube for, after all.
Though I had noted that your seminarians tend to be a little on the straight-laced side, which seems also to be a young-person thing among conservatives. They'll loosen up eventually, but until then, I'm afraid I find most of them insufferable.
Sarah was quite tolerable company, but only after I had given her strict instructions never to talk a lot of God-talk to me.
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Since we are in a confessing mood...I don't read the ST posts either. I'm trying to figure out why I have no interest in ST, for certainly I spent (note: spent, not misspent)much of my childhood watching TV. I think there must have been something on opposite Star Trek that I preferred---I Spy? Mission Impossible? Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea? Lost in Space? And....are you ready for this ... I haven't actually seen a single issue of Star Trek, or any of the movies. There. I've said it. Can I stay? I know what you mean about the younger generation though. When I'm marking papers, if the logic or syntax is at the danger point of breaking down utterly, I will write in margin, "Danger Will Robinson", which they don't ever seem to get.
ReplyDeleteI love your Star Trek posts, Hilary.
ReplyDeleteMission Impossible came after ST on British Columbia television in the 70s.
ReplyDeleteIt's a duty for all young people to learn the correct verse-and-response to all pop culture references since the 1960s. They are otherwise simply cultural illiterates.
ReplyDeleteThat is what God gave us YouTube for, after all.
Though I had noted that your seminarians tend to be a little on the straight-laced side, which seems also to be a young-person thing among conservatives. They'll loosen up eventually, but until then, I'm afraid I find most of them insufferable.
Sarah was quite tolerable company, but only after I had given her strict instructions never to talk a lot of God-talk to me.
Awesome pizza cutter.
ReplyDeleteAnd I have been watching Sheldon's show, so I now understand your interest in him.