yes this is pixellated but that doesn't change my point that yes i'm angry! with a capital ang. when i was sent this lol earlier today (by someone who it turns out agrees with the point i'm about to make) i could only think one thing. in star trek iv: the voyage home, that's not how montgomery scott said that line. it's just not. there was no question mark in his voice.
after going back in time to 1980s san francisco to help locate two humpback whales to bring into the future (as long as the whales agreed to the plan) and save the earth from a space probe whose calls to the whales in the future were being unanswered because humpbacks were extinct and said calls' vibrations were destroying earth, scotty had to communicate with a 1980s computer in order to help get the materials needed to build a giant tank on the ragtag klingon bird of prey they'd time traveled on by whipping around the sun at breakaway speed...and then...oh just rent it. (as an aside, that's not what i would do in 1980s san francisco. i'd, you know, buy real estate.) after scotty tried talking to the computer straight out and it ignored him, bones suggested he try the mouse, at which point scotty talked into the mouse, thus an immortal movie line and this particular lol's subject matter were born. but there was never a question mark. never never never.
i'll prove it with this sound clip i just made: hello computer.
see i'm right to be angry, like always. damn lol is wrong-o-wrong. and if you're the one who made it, i'm taking you down. you're going down. you're finished in the world of lols. i refute your existence. in conclusion, this is the most important issue in our precarious times. first wrong punctuation in star trek lols. after that wrong punctuation in star trek convention programs. where will it end? oh the humanity! and oh the aliens!
A Keyboard? How Quaint!
http://granades.com/2007/05/02/loltrek/
Posted by: Cate | January 16, 2008 at 10:43 PM