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Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
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From: noel@umbc2.umbc.edu
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Subject: Christmas Present--Lots of Top 10 Lists
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Message-ID: <23DEC92.13423244@umbc2.umbc.edu>
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Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore County
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:42:32 GMT
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For Chirstmas I decided to repost every Silly Top List and other Top
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10 lists others posted since early 1992. Hope you all like them.
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Merry Christmas!
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Noel Tominack
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From: dwk1@kepler.unh.edu (David W Kimball)
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Date: 5-MAY-1992 23:32:21
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Description: all the silly top ten lists you could ever want to read
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Recently I retired the silly top ten list, but included an offer to
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mail my entire file containing these lists to any interested party. Well,
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the response has been overwhelming! So as a public service, I have decided
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to post the whole shabang. This file contains every silly top ten list I
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posted this semester. Enjoy, and trek on!
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I will of course still honor any requests by e-mail. I love getting
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mail!
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Now, the TOP TEN lines from the upcoming TNG episode,
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"The Enterprise Stops at Taco Bell":
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10) (Troi) I sense... indigestion.
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9) (Picard) Don't order the fajitas, Number One, they'll go through you at
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warp nine.
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8) (Wesley, guest starring) Look, mister, the sign says you get a free "Little
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Orphan Annie" cup with any taco salad purchase, and I'm not leaving here till
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I get one!
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7) (Worf) Klingons do NOT eat burritos!
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6) (Geordi) I bet if I allowed anti-matter to collide with these chimichangas
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we could boost warp power by 27 percent!
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5) (Dr. Crusher, pointing tricorder at a taco) Inconclusive meat readings,
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Captain.
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4) (Picard) You're on, Number One. Whoever can squirt the most jalapeno sauce
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up his nose gets treated to dessert.
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3) (Riker) What do you mean you don't serve tokelau here? What kind of Mexican
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restaurant is this?
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2) (Data, re-joining Geordi after bugging Picard with a boring monologue on
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the history of the enchilada) I do not believe it is physically possible
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for me to place an enchilada in the area suggested by the Captain.
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1) (Picard) When we get back on the ship and you have the conn, Number One,
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you'd better not queef on my chair!
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the TOP TEN Favorite Activities of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
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10) ordering Earl Grey tea from the computer, then smacking himself on the
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forehead and saying "I could have had a V-8!"
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9) yelling "Punchbuggy!" and hitting Riker's arm whenever he sees
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a shuttlecraft
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8) screwing around in the holodeck when he ought to be on the bridge
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7) spotlighting unsuspecting crewmembers with the glare from his forehead
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6) lecturing everybody on why it's rude to fire the phasers at other
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life-forms
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5) sending crank subspace messages to Starfleet Command asking if
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Dick Hertz is there
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4) asking Beverly Crusher to come to his quarters so he can show her "a
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REAL Picard Maneuver"
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3) Ticking off Romulan commanders during tense confrontations in the Neutral
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Zone by asking "Are those Bugle Boy jeans you're wearing?"
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2) telling crewmembers in menacing, Dirty Harry voice, "Go ahead! Make it so!"
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1) putting banana peels on the transporter pads just before an away team
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beams back up
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And coming next week... the TOP TEN Reasons Riker Won't Shave!
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The TOP TEN reasons why Riker won't shave:
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10) Hopes his beard will draw attention away from his constant silly smile.
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9) He and Worf are having a beard-growing contest.
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8) It helps hide the faint, hereditary birthmark on his chin that proves
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he's a werewolf.
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7) Hopes to look scarier to hostile aliens.
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6) Starfleet has bridge personnel hair quotas and he's trying to make up
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for Picard.
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5) He thinks Troi finds it sexy.
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4) (seasons 2 to mid-4 only) Didn't trust himself to pick up a can of shaving
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cream because the temptation to go and spray it at Wesley was too great.
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3) Wants to look more like his hero, Ming the Merciless.
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2) Every time he does, Q makes his beard grow back in five minutes as a gag.
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1) Picard won't let him fire up his photon blade.
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The TOP TEN upcoming episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation
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(including a preview of the first TNG movie!)
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10) Breeding Grounds - Organian frat boys replace the coffee normally
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served on the Enterprise with Folger's crystals spiked with
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Klingon aphrodisiacs
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9) Electro-Q-tion (alternate title: Q d'etat) - Q endows every Starfleet
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uniform on the Enterprise with permanent static cling; the
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Captain breaks the record for most shirt-tugging "Picard
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Maneuvers" in one episode
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8) The Bonding II - Picard accidentally Crazy Glues himself to the table
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in his ready room
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7) Deanna Does Pallas - while the Enterprise is on a mission in the Solar
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System's asteroid belt, Counselor Troi's Betazoid sex drive
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reaches its peak
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6) Hell Hath No Fury - Keiko buries a machete in O'Brien's back after finding
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him on the holodeck cheating on her with a computer-generated
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bimbo
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5) Globular Mustard - an alien probe of unknown origin pulls abreast of the
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Enterprise, opens hailing frequencies, and asks, "Pardon me,
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do you have any Grey Poupon?"
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4) Embroider at Needlepoint (alternate title: Prose-Q-ting Attorney) - Q puts
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humanity on trial again, claiming that it is a savage and
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tasteless race, introducing as evidence a really ugly sweater
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that Dr. Crusher knitted Captain Picard for his last birthday
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3) The Funted - superior aliens sieze the Enterprise claiming that they wish
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to study humans, but in a surprise ending reveal that the crew is
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really on Galactic Candid Camera
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2) Out, Out, Damn Spot - Data's cat gets onto the bridge and spits up a
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hairball on Captain Picard
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1) Star Trek VII: Up the Creek - Wesley and three of his pals must win a
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river rafting race for Starfleet Academy
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(this one was billed as a BIZARRE top ten list, I thought it was more
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bizarre than silly)
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the TOP TEN signs that the Enterprise is crewed by Satan worshipers!
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10) Ship's food synthesizers make only deviled ham and deviled eggs
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9) Most common Sickbay complaint is neck cramps from being possessed by
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demons that make your head spin around, like in "The Exorcist"
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8) Picard refuses to take the ship to any point in either the Northern or
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Southern Cross
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7) When the Captain's Log is played backward, hidden messages advocating
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Satan worship and human sacrifice can be heard
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6) A large cauldron, broomstick, and black, pointed hat are prominently
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displayed in Troi's quarters
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5) Communicator pin changed to magical pentagram shape
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4) Riker obviously made a pact with the devil that forces women to be
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attracted to him despite his zero personality
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3) Forty percent of all male babies born on the ship are named "Lucifer"
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2) Universal Translator designed to handle speaking in tongues
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1) Picard tried to have the ship's name and registry changed to
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U.S.S. Beelzebub, NCC-666
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the TOP TEN secrets about the Enterprise and its crew
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10) All routine maintainence on the ship is done by Oompa-Loompas
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9) Dr. Pulaski was sealed alive in a seldom used Jefferies tube by Data
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after she insulted him one too many times
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8) Riker's parents were Nazis, his middle initial "T" stands for "Third"
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7) Troi starts all counseling sessions with male crewmembers by asking
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"So, is that a phaser rifle in your pocket, or are you just glad to
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see me?"
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6) Before joining Starfleet, Jean-Luc Picard was a Chippendale's dancer
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5) "Worf" is Klingonese for "pinhead"
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4) Riker amuses himself by signing all reports with the abbreviation
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"F. Off."
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3) Geordi is taking a shuttlecraft apart and mailing it home piece by piece
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2) Picard is Wesley's father
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1) Due to a time travel accident, Wesley is Picard's father
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Well, campers, this week's silly top ten list comes to us from
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Waterville, Maine - specifically, from Colby College, where my younger
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sister Katie is a freshman. We keep in touch via e-mail, and recently I
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suggested to her that we collaborate on a top ten list. She sent the
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list that you are about to read as a tentative starting point, but I
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liked it so much that I am posting it without alteration. She is its
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sole author, and all fan letters, hate mail, and/or death threats may
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be sent directly to chkimbal@colby.edu or may be sent to yours truly,
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who will forward them to her address when I get back. Don't bother posting
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any remarks - she doesn't read rec.arts.startrek.misc!
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the TOP TEN reasons Picard won't fire the phasers:
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10) He doesn't know how.
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9) He doesn't want to succumb to crew pressure.
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8) He doesn't want to lose the women attracted by his sensitive side.
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7) He doesn't want to use the same effects as the old show.
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6) Emily Post recommends not firing on a first encounter.
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5) It saves energy.
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4) He is on the holodeck pretending he has a life.
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3) He is promoting a kinder, gentler Starfleet.
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2) The other ship is probably carrying a relative of Tasha Yar.
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1) What would his mother say?
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the TOP TEN worries of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
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10) Has to figure out at least a token punishment for Worf for killing
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a crew member who hid a tribble in Worf's bed as a practical joke
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9) The impulse engines have been making a funny noise lately
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8) Crew refers to him as "Captain Chrome-Dome Retard" behind his back
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7) That the voices in his head telling him to throw Counselor Troi out
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an airlock will become too insistent to ignore
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6) Ensign Ro has introduced a strain of Bejoran V.D. into the Enterprise
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population that cordrazine won't even put a dent in
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5) Wesley might come to visit
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4) Luwxanna Troi might come to visit
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3) If he doesn't get the pizzas to Starbase 141 within thirty minutes,
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they're free
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2) The way Data keeps reading "2001: A Space Odyssey" over and over again
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1) Riker will keep turning down promotion after promotion and he'll NEVER
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be rid of the big dork!
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Before we get to this week's silly top 10 list, we have a bonus top 10
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list. It was written and sent to me by noel@umbc1.umbc.edu (Noel Tominack,
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ACS University of Maryland Baltimore County). I thought it was definitely
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worth posting, and so (with his permission, of course) here are:
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TOP 10 WORST STARFLEET NAMES AND REGISTRIES
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10. U.S.S. Answer NCC 42
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9. U.S.S. Pickup NCC 52
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8. U.S.S. Satan NCC 666
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7. U.S.S. Friday NCC 13-8
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6. U.S.S. Oldsmobile NCC 442
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5. U.S.S. James Bond NCC 007
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4. U.S.S. Rescue NCC 911
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3. U.S.S. Ivory NCC 99 44/100
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2. U.S.S. George Orwell NCC 1984
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and the #1 Worst Starship name and registry
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1. U.S.S. Beverly Hills NCC 90210
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written by Noel Tominack, ACS
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University of Maryland Baltimore County
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We now return you to your regularly scheduled silly top 10 list, namely:
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the TOP TEN Complaints of the Romulan Intelligence Agency
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10) Federation keeps smuggling loads of "Coed Naked Parise's Squares"
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T-shirts to Romulan universities
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9) Every other officer is a clone of Tasha Yar
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8) "Romulan" is an anagram for "unmoral"
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7) Shoulder pads on our new uniforms are so big we look like a Vulcanoid
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version of the Green Bay Packers
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6) Comissary at Agency HQ serves watered-down Romulan ale
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5) Ever since we blew up our own Vulcan invasion force, it's been impossible
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to get volunteers for the next one
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4) name "Enterprise" sounds suspiciosly like Romulan phrase "enn t'rp reis"
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meaning "your mother sucks eggs"
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3) All of Sela's big plans work about as well as lead balloons
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2) Stole the blueprints for the Federation's proposed Escher class starship,
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but can't make head nor tail out of them
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1) $800 million credit cloaked surveillance satellite in Earth orbit was
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supposed to moniter Starfleet HQ, but only picks up MTV instead
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Ladies and gentleman, I bid you welcome to this special performance.
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Tonight, Bellman Productions proudly presents:
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Silly Top Ten List - the Musical!
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selection #10
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Music: title theme from "Gilligan's Island"
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Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
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A tale of a maiden trip,
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That started from this deep space port,
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Aboard this Starfleet ship.
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The mate was a mighty dorky guy,
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The skipper, bald and bold,
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The ship was ordered to Farpoint,
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For a two-part episode, a two-part episode.
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The ship got captured by the Q,
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The awful script was rough,
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If not for the fervor of the fearless fans,
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We would have turned it off, we would have turned it off.
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Now, the ship is boldly going
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Where no one has gone before,
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With Jean-Luc Picard, and Riker too,
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The red-head Doc, and her son,
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The Betazoid,
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An android and a Klingon man,
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Here on the Enterprise!
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* * * * * * * * * *
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selection #9
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Music: "Home on the Range"
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Singers: the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701-D
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Oh give me a home, where the Captain's a chrome-dome,
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Where the crew on the holodeck play.
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Where seldom the words "fire phasers" are heard,
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And Wesley at school is away.
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selection #8
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Music: "With Catlike Tread" from "The Pirates of Penzance"
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by Gilbert and Sullivan
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Singers: the r.a.s.* canon police
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We canon-heads
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Don't accept all Trek.
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Only what's on film
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The rest can go to heck.
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No books at all!
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We don't believe a word
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Even if it was okayed by the Great Bird.
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So steadily we flame the techs
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For spouting off Franz Joseph's specs
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Trekkers on r.a.s!
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Watch our local station
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Do a Vulcan salutation
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Keep canonicity
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Free of FASA's blasphemy!
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selection #7
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Music: theme from "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles"
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Cannon-fodder red-shirt extras!
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Cannon-fodder red-shirt extras!
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Cannon-fodder red-shirt extras!
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You know that they'll be toasted
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R.I.P.
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They rarely last through more than just one scene,
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Every time you look, they're dying on the screen,
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When that bug-eyed monster attacks,
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Those security guys are nothin' but snacks.
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Cannon-fodder red-shirt extras!
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Cannon-fodder red-shirt extras!
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Cannon-fodder red-shirt extras!
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Shouldn't ever beam down
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R.I.P.
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Those red-shirt guys are really up the creek,
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They never live to come back the next week,
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Bear the brunt of every attack,
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So many croak, you can't keep track.
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Cannon-fodder red-shirt extras!
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Cannon-fodder red-shirt extras!
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Cannon-fodder red-shirt extras!
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You know that they'll be toasted
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R.I.P.
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selection #6
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Music: Monty Python's lumberjack song
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Singer: Commander Riker
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Oh, I'm First Officer and I'm okay,
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I sleep around and I work all day!
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I man the bridge, I sign reports,
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I go to the lavatory.
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I hang out with the Captain, and he makes me drink Earl Grey tea!
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Oh, I'm First Officer and I'm okay,
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I sleep around and I work all day!
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I man the bridge, I grow my beard,
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I lead the away teams.
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I've scored on every planet onto which I have been beamed!
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Oh, I'm First Officer and I'm okay,
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I sleep around and I work all day!
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I play poker, I skip and jump,
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I visit Risa when on leave.
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When I whip out my horgon, the babes all run to me!
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selection #5
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Music: "Can't Touch This" by M.C. Hammer
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Singer: Captain Picard a.k.a. M.C. Baldo
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My, my, my, my starship is
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So cool
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Makes me say
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Look here, fool
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the Enterprise is
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So rad
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With its 2-Live crew
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And Captain so bad
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I've met Romulans and Ferengi and dissed 'em
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A superfly French guy from the Sol system
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And you know, you can't say no
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When I tell you to... Make it so!
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Make it so!
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Make it so!
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Oh! Oh, oh, oh! Oh!
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Oh! Oh, oh, oh! Oh!
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Make it so!
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Make it so!
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selection #4
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Music: "Takin' Care of Business" by B.T.O.
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Singer: Wesley Crusher
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I get up every mornin'
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To the alarm clock's warnin'
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And take the turbo-lift up to the bridge.
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I'm in charge of navigation
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So I've got to man my station
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For an acting ensign, quite a privilege.
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And if there's some threat
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Well, you sure as heck can bet
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That I'll figure out a way to save the day!
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If you ever get annoyed at this acting ensign boy,
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Well, I'm not the one who writes it, okay?
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I'll be savin' the Enterprise, every day,
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Savin' the Enterprise, every way,
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Savin' the Enterprise, it gets old,
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Savin' the Enterprise, in every episode.
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selection #3
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Music: "There's a Hole in the Bucket"
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Singers: Geordi LaForge and Leah Brahms
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There's a hole in the warp field, dear Leah, dear Leah,
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There's a hole in the warp field, dear Leah, a hole.
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Patch the hole then, dear Geordi, dear Geordi, dear Geordi,
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Patch the hole then, dear Geordi, dear Geordi, patch the hole.
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With what shall I patch it, dear Leah, dear Leah,
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With what shall I patch it, dear Leah, with what?
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Use a phase shift, dear Geordi, dear Geordi, dear Geordi,
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Use a phase shift, dear Geordi, dear Geordi, a phase shift.
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And how shall I shift it, dear Leah, dear Leah,
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And how shall I shift it, dear Leah, just how?
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Reverse the polarity, dear Geordi, dear Geordi, dear Geordi,
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Reverse the polarity, dear Geordi, dear Geordi, the polarity.
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How shall I reverse it, dear Leah, dear Leah,
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How shall I reverse it, dear Leah, just how?
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Reconfigure the crystals, dear Geordi, dear Geordi,
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Reconfigure the crystals, dear Geordi, the crystals.
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With what shall I reconfigure them, dear Leah, dear Leah,
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With what shall I reconfigure them, dear Leah, with what?
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With a proton beam, dear Geordi, dear Geordi, dear Geordi,
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With a proton beam, dear Geordi, dear Geordi, a proton beam.
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And how shall I make it, dear Leah, dear Leah,
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And how shall I make it, dear Leah, this beam?
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Extend the warp field, dear Geordi, dear Geordi, dear Geordi,
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Extend the warp field, dear Geordi, dear Geordi, extend the field.
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There's a hole in the warp field, dear Leah, dear Leah...
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* * * * * * * * * *
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selection #2
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Music: excerpt from "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
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Singer: Commander Riker (with fan chorus)
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Captain, just got offered a command,
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It's the third or fourth this year,
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But I really like it here,
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Oh Captain, I'm the show's co-star,
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Do they think I'm gonna just throw that away?
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I see a pretty good director of a man
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Jonathan Frakes! Jonathan Frakes! Will you direct the next episode?
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Phaser bolts and lightning, very very frightening me
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Galileo! Shuttle Galileo!
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Galileo! Shuttle Galileo!
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Galileo, Ferengi. (Magnifico!)
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I am just a poor boy, nobody loves me,
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He is just a poor boy, with poor acting ability,
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Spare us the fans from this monstrosity!
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Easy come, easy go, do you think he'll go?
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Bismillah! No, he will not leave the show! - leave the show!
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Bismillah! He will not leave the show! - leave the show!
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Bismillah! He will not leave the show! - leave the show!
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Will not leave the show! - leave the show!
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Never, never, never will I go - leave the show!
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No no no no no no no!
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O mama mia, mama mia, mama mia leave the show.
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Starfleet Command has a vessel put aside for me, for me,
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For me!
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* * * * * * * * * *
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selection #1
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Music: the tune of "Abdul Abulbul Amir"
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The box office profits are valuable as gold
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So the crew for the big screen did steer
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And of all their six movies, the worst I am told
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Is Star Trek: The Final Frontier.
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Spock had a half-brother, the idea was lame
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The F\X were all below par
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In the credits the name, William Shatner, it came
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Under writer, director, and star.
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It was a disaster, the bomb was complete
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It was worse than we even had feared
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Sybok wasn't the only one feeling the pain
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At this God-awful movie's premier!
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Good morning campers! This week we are again fortunate to have a
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bonus top ten list, again courtesy of noel@umbc2.umbc.edu (Noel Tominack).
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So without further delay, here are:
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TOP 10 Problems Wesley Crusher has at the Starfleet Academy
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10. Keeps bumping into doors that don't open for him
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9. Doesn't have his Mommy to protect him
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8. Will not get his credits in Transporter Science after he accidentally
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relocated the Academy to South Pole
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7. Boothby "accidentally" spraying water on him every chance he can
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6. Letters from Hugh G. Rection
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5. Former Nova Teammates putting anti-matter in his bed
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4. Thought his instructors were kidding when they said "You think you are
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so smart? YOU teach the damned class!"
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3. Academy Internet node does not carry alt.sex newsgroups
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2. The commencement speaker will be the Captian of the Boseman
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and the number one problem for Wesley Crusher at the Starfleet Academy:
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1. He never gets to save the Academy from destruction
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the TOP TEN lines you'll never hear
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on Star Trek: The Next Generation
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10) Worf: Klingons do *not* play tiddlywinks!
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9) Picard: It's too bad we don't live in an enlightened, civilized era
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like they had in the twentieth century.
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8) Geordi: Did you hear Wesley almost got kicked out of the academy again?
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They caught him smoking pot!
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Data: (looks puzzled) Pot? (brightens) Ah. Marijuana - a narcotic
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obtained from the hemp plant. Cannabis. Weed. Mary Jane. Grass.
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Reefer. Panama red...
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7) Troi (to someone she is counseling): You've obviously mistaken me for
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someone who cares! Now get out!
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6) Worf: Ouch! I got a paper cut!
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5) a Starfleet admiral: Don't worry about it, Picard, there's plenty of
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other ships in your quadrant.
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4) Riker: Not tonight - I have a headache.
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3) Worf: Do we have to beam down right now? The Smurfs are on subspace T.V.!
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2) Geordi: We've modified the warp coils by reversing the polarity of the
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inverse geometric phase integrator and adding a broad-band
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neutrino flux generator to the hyper-magnetic field controls.
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Riker: What will that do?
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Geordi: Not a damn thing, but it sure as hell *sounds* impressive!
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1) Picard: Oh, screw the hailing frequencies. Fire all phasers!
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the TOP TEN T-shirts worn by members of the Enterprise crew
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10) (Wesley) Starfleet Academy Funnel Team
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9) (Riker) Play Jazz Naked
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8) (Worf) Klingons do NOT wear funny T-shirts!
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7) (Picard) Make it so!
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6) (O'Brien) Beam THIS up!
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5) (Data) Cochrane's equations
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4) (Wesley) Hard Rock Cafe - Tau Ceti
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3) (Geordi) Wanna see my dilithium crystals?
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2) (Riker) My Captain got assimilated by the Borg, and all I got was
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this lousy T-shirt!
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1) (Picard) Starship Captains do it at warp speed!
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NOTE: This week's installment is a collaboration between myself
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and my sister Katie (chkimbal@colby.edu). In honor of the fact that it
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has twice the usual number of authors, it is also twice the normal
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length of a typical top ten list.
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The unexpected can be rare on a show like TNG, where the writers'
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motto is apparently "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", but hopefully today's entry
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is proof that TNG can still throw the occasional curve. To wit:
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the TOP TWENTY surprise plot twists in upcoming TNG episodes
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20) Worf signs his son Alexander up for ballet lessons
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19) The distress call they have been answering is a prank Wesley sent from
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the Academy
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18) Guinan removes her hat, revealing that she is a Saturday Night Live
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style Conehead
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17) Picard beams down
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16) All of Geordi's lines are in words of two syllables or less, with no
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pseudo-scientific doubletalk
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15) Troi runs amok with a machete
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14) Barclay is really the Captain; Picard is just an ensign, and all of his
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"command" has been a holodeck simulation
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13) No guest stars are relatives of Tasha Yar
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12) Geordi gets a woman
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11) Riker *doesn't* get a woman
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10) Data states that he cannot use contractions after using one in the
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previous scene, and the fabric of the universe, unable to withstand
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the continuity error, is rent asunder
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9) Picard wakes up muttering "there's no place like home"
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8) Riker accepts command of another starship, the U.S.S. ZZ Top
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7) Ten Forward is turned into a strip-joint, with its lead act being Beverly
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Crusher as "The Dancing, Disrobing Doctor"
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6) Tired of not being sure whether he is a lieutenant or a chief petty
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officer, O'Brien beams the entire bridge crew into a black hole and
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assumes the rank of Captain
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5) Picard fires the phasers
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4) "Prime Directive" is the word of the day, entire crew goes "Aaaaahhhhh!!"
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at the top of their lungs whenever it is mentioned
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3) Data's cat, Spot, is revealed as a Romulan spy
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2) Wesley is affected the same as the rest of the crew, and a no-name security
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guard saves the ship
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1) Picard switches from Earl Grey to Nestea Instant Tea Mix; does "Nestea
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Plunge" into swimming pool on holodeck
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Well, campers, this is the last top ten list I will be posting.
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I'll have too much work to do the next couple weeks, with finals and
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all, and then I graduate. If anyone out there wants a copy of any or
|
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all of the lists, I will be here for two more weeks, and I will check
|
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my mail occasionally, so just e-mail me your requests. I'd like to thank
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everyone who sent me all the great e-mail. It's been fun.
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the TOP TEN command decisions Captain Picard has to make
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10) Should he send Wesley an FTD Pick-Me-Up bouquet?
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9) How big a tip to leave in 10-Forward
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8) Should he open hailing frequencies or beam over a nice Hallmark
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card instead?
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7) Stock up on minoxidol or turtle wax?
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6) Whether or not to have easy-listening music played in the turbolifts
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5) Should he put Spock on his Christmas card list?
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4) Whether or not to have Data's cat neutered
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3) Whether or not to have Commander Riker neutered
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2) Bud or Coors?
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1) Keep matter/antimatter warp engines or switch over to natural gas?
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:: David W. Kimball :: WARNING: The surgeon general has ::
|
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:: Snark Hunting major at UNH :: determined that reading silly .sigs ::
|
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:: dwk1@kepler.unh.edu :: may be hazardous to your health. ::
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:::::::::::::::::::::::::> You rang? --Lurch <::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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--
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::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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:: David W. Kimball :: WARNING: The surgeon general has ::
|
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:: Snark Hunting major at UNH :: determined that reading silly .sigs ::
|
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:: dwk1@kepler.unh.edu :: may be hazardous to your health. ::
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:::::::::::::::::::::::::> You rang? --Lurch <::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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From: noel@umbc2.umbc.edu
|
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Date: 11-MAY-1992 17:34:51
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Description: A silly Top 10 List
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Hello, I am Noel Tominack from University of Maryland at Baltimore
|
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County. I was a bit nonplussed at Dave Kimball's ending of the top 10 list and
|
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decided to give it a shot myself.
|
|
Please rememenr I am new at this and don't have that flair yet. If I
|
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really do a lame job I'll just quietly slip away.
|
|
But for now, with the episode "I, Borg" coming up, I thought it only
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approrpiate that I bring you:
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TOP 10 WAYS TO TELL YOUR ROOMMATE IS A BORG
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10. Their clothes are always black
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9. The $50,000 phone bills
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8. They spend 3 weeks in Florida and still look white
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7. Your home entertainment center disappears, two days later they are
|
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wearing it.
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6. TV reception gets poor when they walk by
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5. They spend more time reading newsgroups than you do
|
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4. Whenever you talk to them the laser on the side of their head
|
|
blings you
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3. An electronics store chain used them as a mascot
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2. They assimilate all your food
|
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and the number one way to tell if your roommate is a Borg
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1. Everything is irrelavant
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