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Semi-random thought related to Highlander:

How can they be called "Immortals" if the ultimate goal is for them to kill each other and the "Prize" for the last remaining "Immortal" is to grow old and eventually die?

Shouldn't they be called "Temporary-but-slightly-longer-lived-individuals"?
Perry Rhodan series called relativly immortal since the can get killed.
 
Although I’ve heard about it here and elsewhere online, and I know that the “There can be only one” meme is a reference to it... I’ve never actually ever seen Highlander anything.

The original film was pretty cool.

You are VERY LUCKY you never saw the second one.

As for the rest of them: Meh. Near as I can figure, all of the Highlander films exist in separate continuities from each other and from the TV series. There's not one of them that fits with any of its predecessors.
 
^^ All I know is that II was so bad I never saw another Highlander movie and the only reason I ever even gave the TV series a chance was because my Highlander-loving friend couldn't stop talking about it. I was never a regular watcher (hehe), but I would when I had nothing better to do.
 
Some people are discussing their join dates somewhere here on TrekBBS so I decided to look up my abandoned account from years ago.

Apparently, I started that account in early 2004 and was last seen, after 101 posts, a year and a half later in late 2005.

I'm almost positive I had an account even earlier than that because I distinctly remember an Enterprise or Voyager discussion where someone mentioned that the only people that were pooh-poohing whatever show had Star-Wars-related usernames. I did, at the time, and I was, at the time.
 
I was posting here in 2001, maybe earlier. No idea what my username was. I wouldn’t want to know what I was posting back then though.

My random thoughts? What to grow on our newly acquired patch of land. I’m thinking purple carrots, purple spuds, and purple broccoli. Just so that I can tell the kids to eat their purples.

What an awesome day.
 
is anybody ever finishing their plate in the whole of trek?
I think Picard put's an empty bowl of something once.

Since You asked 4 a plate - I dunno.
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How can one blow a clump of cat fur on one's hand away from them and it makes a B-line directly to the corner of their mouth???
 
Why do we use expressions like "kill time" and then complain that life is too short? To quote Spock: "That's not logical".
 
As english is not my mother tongue (I hope though this isn't too obvious in my comments ^^) I have a question which is especially adressed to our english native speakers here:

I sometimes read that people use "could of" instead of "could have". I think I already spotted it also here, for example in a sentence which would be like "This episode could of been better" (just an invented sentence by me now in order to show more clearly what I mean). So, what about this? When I saw it the first time I thought it might just be a mistake, maybe by someone who also isn't a native speaker. But since I came across this more often by now, I wonder, is this some kind of slang maybe?
 
As english is not my mother tongue (I hope though this isn't too obvious in my comments ^^) I have a question which is especially adressed to our english native speakers here:

I sometimes read that people use "could of" instead of "could have". I think I already spotted it also here, for example in a sentence which would be like "This episode could of been better" (just an invented sentence by me now in order to show more clearly what I mean). So, what about this? When I saw it the first time I thought it might just be a mistake, maybe by someone who also isn't a native speaker. But since I came across this more often by now, I wonder, is this some kind of slang maybe?
My wife is one of those people and it drives me nuts.

It’s becase could of sounds like could’ve. Which is a contraction of could have. It’s an entirely incorrect use of the words, which is why it makes no sense.
 
My wife is one of those people and it drives me nuts.

It’s becase could of sounds like could’ve. Which is a contraction of could have. It’s an entirely incorrect use of the words, which is why it makes no sense.
this - fortunately i have no wife that could misbehave in such a way (i'd probably give her up for assimilation)
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