Why do non-fans think we think it's real?

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  1. Tora Ziyal

    Tora Ziyal Vice Admiral Admiral

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  2. FormerLurker

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    I haven't read much of this thread, but when I was a kid, I wished it was real! I didn't want to be on Star Trek, I wanted to be on the Enterprise!

    Oh,and Nardpuncher: 2 x 2 = 4
     
  3. Nardpuncher

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    WHOOOOOOOAAAAAA!!!!!!:eek:
     
  4. Anji

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    They make fun of us because they're too stupid and narrowminded to understand Star Trek.
     
  5. Ziz

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    Just like my signature says.
     
  6. JarodRussell

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    Awesome.
     
  7. Shatnertage

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    OK, you made me think of this (25 seconds in):



    :lol:
     
  8. Forbin

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    We had a series of rah-rah posters up at work, each one featuring a photo of an employee and one of the company's four "key objectives." Not having been chosen as a model for one of them, I got a little jealous, and created a Key Objective poster of myself, mimicking the style of the real ones as closely as possible:

    http://www.inpayne.com/temp/posterpayne.jpg

    It's been hanging in my office for years, and it actually gets a chuckle from everyone who sees it. Even the company president gave it a hearty laugh.
     
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  10. 137th Gebirg

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    QFT. And IIRC, the etymology of the term "fan" originally derives from a much larger and more descriptive word - "fanatic". :vulcan:
     
  11. Forbin

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    I said out, dammit!
    ^Correct.
     
  12. RandyS

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    Which is why I hate the term fan. It makes you sound crazy, and I am definately NOT crazy.

    Weird yes, crazy, no.
     
  13. Nerys Myk

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    Really? You're going to let the word's etymolgy control you in that way?
     
  14. Shatnertage

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    I just remembered a funny experience I had a few years back. Please indulge me.

    A friend of mine's boyfriend had a huge argument with her over whether Dark Vader was real. Although he acknowledged that Vader was a fictional character, he believed that, as the representation of evil, he was real in the same sense as other historical figures, like Hitler and Stalin.

    A few nights later, a few of us were hanging out, and we decided we wanted ice cream cake. So me and my girlfriend went down to Carvel, and on the urging of Mrs. Vader-is-real, got a Fudgie the Whale inscribed with the words, "Darth Vader is REAL."

    That's the kind of stuff people do to you when start talking about whether this stuff is real or not.
     
  15. Nerys Myk

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    At a place I used to work ( a bookstore) we developed a test called the Geek-A-Lyser, which measered the taker's devotion to their "hobbies." It covered a wide range of interest from music to sports to TV/Movies. One of my co-workers didn't like his high score, because he thought following the Grateful Dead from town to town and amassing a large collection of concert bootlegs did not make him a "geek." The over all high scorer was a Scifi/gamer/comics books/sports fan.
     
  16. zar

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    I hate the term "weird". It makes you sound like a witch.
     
  17. Forbin

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    Dark Vader? Turn in thy geek card at once!
     
  18. SPCTRE

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    That's awesome :lol:
     
  19. RandyS

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    Um.. what?
     
  20. Shatnertage

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    Mistakes were made?

    :lol: