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To: kesg

12 mnoon.

(It's a silent "m". Like the "R" in James Rtiberius Kirk. First Trekkie to explain that reference wins.)


14 posted on 10/20/2005 8:45:00 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
James Rtiberius Kirk

This may be worth staying up for!

40 posted on 10/20/2005 8:51:12 PM PDT by T Minus Four (Some assembly required.)
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To: dangus

12:00 "M" as in midnight. "N" would be noon.


41 posted on 10/20/2005 8:52:06 PM PDT by nitejohnboy
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To: dangus
(It's a silent "m". Like the "R" in James Rtiberius Kirk. First Trekkie to explain that reference wins.)

You mean it's silent like p in the pool.

67 posted on 10/20/2005 8:58:23 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: dangus

About James Rtiberius Kirk:

In the pilot episode (the aired pilot, not the one about Commander Christopher Pike), Capt. James Kirk sees a tomsbtone he recognizes to be his. It reads, "James R. Kirk." Within weeks, however, his middle name is spoken: "This is Captain James Tiberius Kirk, of the Starship Enterprise."

Apparently enough people caught on to the contradiction, that the producers felt they had to clarify that his middle initial was "T," because from then on, he identified himself as "James T. Kirk"... as opposed to James Rtiberius Kirk, I suppose.


183 posted on 10/20/2005 9:37:31 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus; T Minus Four; nitejohnboy; ElkGroveDan; Stingy Dog; kesg

Oops... Ping to post #183 for the answer to Rtiberius.

Bonus Question: (And you don't need to be a trekkie to know this, oddly...)

Why is ironic (or fitting) that a man named Tiberius Kirk would fight the Romulans?

(half credit for an answer that involves only one of those names.)
(A very vague hint, of sorts: Series creator Gene Roddenberry was educated as a Jesuit.)


185 posted on 10/20/2005 9:59:59 PM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
12 mnoon. (It's a silent "m". Like the "R" in James Rtiberius Kirk. First Trekkie to explain that reference wins.)

Oh, man! That's the BEST laugh I've had in a month of Sundays.

187 posted on 10/20/2005 10:03:33 PM PDT by Wolfstar (The reactionaries' favorite short list are all judges GWB appointed to the appellate bench.)
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