I'm pretty sure there was a "get a life" or two in the responses...
This guy has issues with Bill Shatner
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He is trying to backpedal, and to make it even more odd, he apparently posted this on the board maybe back in 2006:
"Thanks for your post and views on this. I disagree that it was a "test" and if so a pretty petty one. I've always returned every phone call I've recieved other than clearly crank ones, and I've never called collect There are other, friendlier ways to test someone's credibility."
I can't be sure if PJ posted that since the board does not make it clear who is posting what. If that post is by PJ, he wasn't backpedaling them.
Am I missing something?
"Thanks for your post and views on this. I disagree that it was a "test" and if so a pretty petty one. I've always returned every phone call I've recieved other than clearly crank ones, and I've never called collect There are other, friendlier ways to test someone's credibility."
I can't be sure if PJ posted that since the board does not make it clear who is posting what. If that post is by PJ, he wasn't backpedaling them.
Am I missing something?
I actually find it amusing that he is still upset after all this time. Sounds like part of his issue is that he was embarrased that he actually had to use a payphone, though I would think at the time that was not all that uncommon.
Yeah, really. 85% of that blog entry had nothing to do with Shatner. And in case this gets read as some bitter Trekkie response, I was hoping for something juicy, too. I dig Shatner's Kirk but I'm not under any delusion that he hasn't been a real a-hole to people, either.
Also:
http://www.peterjames.com/welcome.htm
This guys REALLY needs to think of better names for his books. Honestly, it's all a variation of (rather generic) phrases with the word "dead" in them.
edit: Oh and check out the About section. There's something extremely douchechilling about a guy posing in front of his millions of cars and also listing every award he's ever received.
Some people, huh? 
I thought it read like an attempt at self-serving satire when I clicked on the link a week ago. It just wasn't an entirely successful attempt. I'd put it about on a par with the story about the guy who won a bet with Harlan Ellison, back in 1960 (or whenever it was) -- sorta lame, but mildly entertaining for a moment or two.
Hey, it was a gallon of gas in 1970!OMG, I can't believe it. A quarter?
That is so lame, it's hysterical!
Hey, it was a gallon of gas in 1970!
Yes, it was.
So, what was it like when Dinosaurs ruled the Earth?
Yeah, yours.
number6
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Oh Really, Saul??
None of my rants are as stupid as this Shatner thing. There are plenty of rants sillier than I have ever posted.
I defy you to post an example of any rant that I have posted that compares with the sheer stupidity of that.. In fact I double dog defy you.
The gauntlet has been thrown. Time for you to put your money where your keypad is!!
I dare you!
I dunno, I can see this coming across as satirical. It really doesn't seem to be that serious to me and Peter James just seems like he wants to relay an anecdote about his life.
I would be slightly confused as well receiving a collect call from William Shatner! So it seems this guy has created a faux-rant about something that has confused him for decades.
I really wouldn't take it too seriously.
However - even if it is satirical, it's not exactly that funny or interesting. Certainly not to the point where it required several paragraphs of blog post.
It's really not a story that requires any more explanation than: 'LOL! This one time, The Shat collect called me. What a cheapskate!"
I would be slightly confused as well receiving a collect call from William Shatner! So it seems this guy has created a faux-rant about something that has confused him for decades.
I really wouldn't take it too seriously.
However - even if it is satirical, it's not exactly that funny or interesting. Certainly not to the point where it required several paragraphs of blog post.
It's really not a story that requires any more explanation than: 'LOL! This one time, The Shat collect called me. What a cheapskate!"
number6
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You folks are over reacting a bit, don't you think? I don't see him saying he hates Shatner in the article at all. He just says Shatner was mean. A friend of mine met Shatner here in Canada many years ago, and he treated her like a piece of crap. Gave her the whole, "I'm William Shatner", speech. She hasn't been able to watch a movie or show with him in it ever since...his voice now grates on her nerves he treated her so badly.
I agree
