You know you're a Trekkie(er) when...
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I thought about that but I didn't want to push my luck considering I'd already written about two dozen references for the ceremony and I was warned not to deviate too far from legal requirements
Though I did mange to sneak in bits of the vows from DS9 
The weekend taught me that you know a Trekkie's lost when he opens google maps on his phone and pretends it's a tricorder for the rest of the journey.
Ooh, story time! Back in the early '90s, my college band director had sent several of us somewhere to go pick up some equipment, and he gave us his cell phone to take with us. Keep in mind that hardly anyone had cell phones at this point in time. Also remember that this was in the middle of TNG's run, and this was at an engineering school, so yeah, we all watched it! So we get out to the site, and apparently it's on the very edge of a cell, since the signal kept going in and out. So being the engineers that we are, the guy with the cell phone (a flip phone) proceeds to wander about with the phone open, scanning to see where the edge of the cell is. While the rest of us are watching him, we suddenly realize what it looks like, and we all just burst out laughing!
Are you talking about the issue where transgender kids in school want to use the opposite gender's restroom for PE? I've heard about that, and no kid would've been able to get away with that at the school I went to because it was one of those private schools.
Here's a little something I read in the comics section last Sunday that I thought was funny.
www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2016/05/15
God bless, Jason Irelan
Well, sort of, but let's not derail this thread anymore with this, okay?
Back to "You know you're a Trekkie when..."
I read the title as "You know you're a Trekkier when..." and figured that "Trekkier" was the French term for our malady!
Sometimes when I get in bed at the end of the night I say "Computer. End program."
As in "Sacre bleu! Ze trekkiere have his 'ead in ze clouds, causing him to fall into our world-famous sewer system!"
I'm glad to read that. When I saw "10/2000" I thought it was "ten out of 2000" and she was like only 0.5% better. I myself don't have good discs either.
When it's 2016, I'm over 40 and I'm still reading about and discussing films and series from the last century....
- cellphone call notice is the bosun's whistle
- cellphone instant message notice are communicator chirps
- cellphone email notice are communicator beeps
- when the car rental agency gives you a Pontiac Aztec, and you drive your wife batshit crazy by constantly uttering, "Shuttlecraft to Enterprise ... shuttlecraft to Enterprise"
- when your computer is running slow, you pick up the mouse and say "Hellooooooooo computer"
- when a meeting is cancelled or I run into some unexpected free time, I say, "Suits me fine, I just bought a boat" (few people get this, even those familiar with the franchise)
- there is no plain "dammit!", it's always "dammit Jim" (I know, not canon but I even have my wife saying it)
- every, and I mean every, computer, phone, tablet, whatever background or wallpaper is Star Trek art
- explaining using your hands to eat as "eating like a Klingon"
- cellphone instant message notice are communicator chirps
- cellphone email notice are communicator beeps
- when the car rental agency gives you a Pontiac Aztec, and you drive your wife batshit crazy by constantly uttering, "Shuttlecraft to Enterprise ... shuttlecraft to Enterprise"
- when your computer is running slow, you pick up the mouse and say "Hellooooooooo computer"
- when a meeting is cancelled or I run into some unexpected free time, I say, "Suits me fine, I just bought a boat" (few people get this, even those familiar with the franchise)
- there is no plain "dammit!", it's always "dammit Jim" (I know, not canon but I even have my wife saying it)
- every, and I mean every, computer, phone, tablet, whatever background or wallpaper is Star Trek art
- explaining using your hands to eat as "eating like a Klingon"
When you call the old Simon & Garfunkel song, The Sounds of Silence, the "Bajoran Song", because of the line: "the words of the Prophets are written on the subway walls"
I drive a White Pontiac Aztek with Eurostile Boid (font) hull lettering and a custom dash with navigation cameras and monitors.
My notifications on the cell are TNG entry beeps and console sounds.
Yeah, I cause a lot of looks but I don't care, it's what I like.
When you're wanting something that'll enable you to talk like a favorite Star Trek species. I'd like to see about getting something that I could use to talk like the Borg collective multivoice. Do they sell anything like that?
God bless, Jason Irelan
God bless, Jason Irelan
I like to break into an imitation of the TOS computer...."Chuchuchuk, chuchuchuk, WERR-KEENG!"
When asked to accomplish the impossible under miserable conditions with high stakes, you respond "Sounds like fun!"
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