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I can do the Vulcan sign with both hands WHILE curling the edges of my tongue when sticking it out... Oh yeah, well I can do the Vulcan sign with both hands while curling my tongue, while crossing my eyes, while walking and chewing bubble gum all at the same time. 
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Can someone please provide me with a simple mnemonic to distinguish Star Wars from Star Trek?
thanks in advance
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Star Wars is stratospheric, Star Trek is intergalactic.
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Star Wars is stratospheric, Star Trek is intergalactic.
A perfect distinction! Thanks Bill... I guess I never had to think about it as I was an original Trekkie and never got excited about the Star Wars Triology (or whatever it is now).
Shoshannah
in my first posting as a 'star traveler' (well, okay, journeyman...but star traveler sounds much more exciting & romantic since I'm going where I've never gone before and meeting many more new life forms than I ever thought existed...)
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I was assuming that Star Wars referred to the proposed hideously expensive and doubtfully effective defence against nuclear attack on the US.
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Now, Bill, THAT's funny - you understand the distinction without knowing what it's all about! You are right on one level - but in this case, the Star Wars mentioned is a movie - well, a 'triology' about a battle between good & evil, as it were - the first one (which was not actually the first one in the triology as I understand it) starred Harrison Ford... but the truth is, I never saw any of them! So, I'm sure someone out there can fill you in on this, better than I can!
What I do find interesting is how these words (from movies like Star Wars and TV shows like Star Trek) creep into our daily vocabulary as if they are real words or we are talking about real people and real events - such as that Vulcan hand gesture (well, it was a real hand gesture, as I mentioned in a previous posting... but it was NOT, as far as we know, first done by Vulcans).
How many of us may talk about the characteristics of a Vulcan or (over here with the weekly showing of the program Star Gate - is it on anywhere else in the world?) discuss the effects of going through the gate or the how it must feel to have another being living in your stomach?!
Is there a thread already started for this type of discussion - that is, how words from science fiction, primarily TV or movies, have become part of our daily vocabulary?
Shoshannah
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I saw and enjoyed the Star Wars movies. But for a long time now, "Star Wars" was contemptuous name for the antimissile program Pres. Reagan started, and it has been said Pres. Busch might revive.
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"how it must feel to have another being living in your stomach?!"
-- pregnant? [glad-I'm-not-going-there-again emoticon]
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"how it must feel to have another being living in your stomach?!"
-- pregnant? [glad-I'm-not-going-there-again emoticon]
Oh Sparteye - thought you were busy watching basketball! What a hoot! Of course, I wasn't thinking of THAT... but it's a good retort!
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Sparteye wrote : another being living in your stomach?!"
-- pregnant? [glad-I'm-not-going-there-again emoticon]
Me too, Sparteye. Oh, the kicking and the heartburn!
Would not change a thing tho, two handsome sons and enough fodder to lay guilt for a lifetime when I want something!
Chuckle chuckle,
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