Posted on 03/21/2021 12:58:18 PM PDT by NEWwoman
BOSTON (CBS) — Boston is paying a special tribute to actor Leonard Nimoy, who would have turned 90 years old later this month. Mayor Marty Walsh is declaring his birthday, March 26, to be "Leonard Nimoy Day" in the city.
Nimoy, who died in 2015, was born in Boston's West End neighborhood. He'll always be remembered for portraying the logical, pointy-eared Spock in "Star Trek," and embracing the Vulcan character's "live long and prosper" motto.
Walsh wrote that Nimoy "brought honor upon his native city" with his accomplishments and "gave the immigrant, the refugee, and the oppressed, a hero for 'the Outsider.'"
I ‘ve caught him in a couple of episodes of “Highway Patrol.”
Why couldn’t Mumbles Menino have done this for him while he was still alive?
Liberals Didn’t Get Spock ‘Greatest Republican’ Tribute
By John Blosser | Monday, 02 March 2015 03:04 PM
An Oregon state legislator has immortalized Spock, the iconic Vulcan science officer of the Federation starship Enterprise, as the “greatest Republican in the history of the galaxy.”
Speaking on the floor of the Oregon House on Friday, Republican Rep. Bill Post, who represents Keizer, St. Paul and Newberg, raised his right hand in the classic split-fingered Vulcan greeting, and said: “Today is a sad day in history. Today, the greatest Republican in the history of the galaxy, he was a legal alien who believed in prosperity, passed away. So I want to say, Dif-tor heh smusma (Vulcan for “live long and prosper”), Spock. Thank you.”
Post, responding to the liberal furor which followed his House statement, posted on his website: “The funniest part about my ‘Spock tribute’ is the amount of people, mostly on the left, who didn’t ‘get it.’ My wife says it’s the ‘dead pan humor’ of my delivery. That was part of the joke! No emotion — logic. I know Spock is not a D or an R. Sheesh!
Tomorrow will be William Shatner’s 90th birthday.
Hr died in that glass radiation chamber to save the Enterprise.
They tear down monuments and historic statues in Boston, and then pay tributes to some Star Trek play actors.
Thanks for the link.
H&I just finished the one episode of The Untouchables he was in. Great timing.
Cool!
Don’t worry Vulcan, Alberta invited him and he showed up while he was still living and prospering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZq7wJd2vsQ
Nimoy’s birthday is March 26th
Shatner’s birthday is March 22nd.
And right in between them on the 24th is Steve McQueen, R Lee Ermey, Harry Houdini....and me.
He was fun to watch any comment about him coming up with the hand signal as a Vulcan ( in WWII it was the used as the victory sign) white mans signal ?
-PJ
Leonard Nimoy
@TheRealNimoy
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Feb 23, 2015
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP
Leonard Nimoy’s last tweet:
https://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy
Yes...
And the hand signal was a Jewish symbol—Shin. Used for Shaddai-God or Shalom—Peace.
Live Long and Proper is a Jewish blessing from the Law of Moses.
He’s dead Jim...
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