Ten Forward Lounge - Miscellaneous General Chat & Welcome Thread

[Pondwater]

Chef's specialty.

 

[Amaris]

Good ol' Chef. Been there since day one*.




*allegedly

 

[cooleddie74]

You'd want to be quiet and blend into the background, too, if you were a 24th century Starfleet commander pretending to be a 22nd century civilian chef with no visible head.

 

[Melakon]

You know, if you were someone in the 22nd century, and suddenly a guy from the 24th century was talking to you, wouldn't you both have trouble understanding the changes in language and dialect over 200 years?

 

[cooleddie74]

Universal Translator.

And failing that explanation, convenience. The writers don't have to invent hip new words and lingo to describe various things in each different century.

 

[Pondwater]

I imagined Chef to look like Nanny from Muppet Babies.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The writers don't have to invent hip new words and lingo to describe various things in each different century.

You don't fathom the Nemesis! In the soon-after we'll send them flying from this sphere. Wrestle your trembles to rages!

 

[cooleddie74]

^
Shaka - when the slang failed!



"Barbara Billingsley is Chef on Enterprise. Thrill as she prepares food for her friends and shipmates and teaches jive to Dr. Phlox!"

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That reminds me: Just what was Ward Cleaver's actual JOB, anyway? I don't remember them actually saying what, specifically, he did for a living.

 

[Pondwater]

Paper pusher.

 

[cooleddie74]

Based on the episodes I've seen I'd say he had a full-time job keeping Eddie Haskell from skipping school to sweet talk and bang his wife.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I did some checking: Ward was a stockbroker. Linky

Another fun fact: The guy who played Eddie did NOT grow up to be Alice Cooper OR John Holmes, he became a decorated L.A. police officer who was shot three times in the line of duty.

 

[HIjol]

<HIjol, flush with his new promotion, crisp in his new uniform, quietly walks to the far table, as the other Admirals toast some guy named Ward Cleaver, who apparently had a thing for beavers.>

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

"Ward, don't you think you were a little hard on the beaver last night?"

 

[cooleddie74]

"Ward, why do the kids call him Lumpy?"

 

[Melakon]

"Because Fred keeps trying to knock some sense into Clarence."

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

What? Eddie wanted to bang June Cleaver?

 

[Melakon]

Watch Eddie. "Gee, Mrs. Cleaver. That's a very lovely dress you're wearing." Eddie might have been a smarmy little jerk, but he was always well groomed and polite in front of adults. "Take it easy, Sam! I know what I'm doing."

 

[cooleddie74]

He was a sociopath-in-training, but the kid had game.

 

[RevdKathy]

And now I'm getting a little peckish. Bartender, a menu, please. Do you have a ploughman's lunch?

We do, but you'll have to get it from the ploughman yourself. He's six foot four and built like a brick shithouse. If you want bread and cheese that much, go ahead. I'd recommend the pasty instead.