'Scotty' Doohan Gave Hitler the Finger (Almost Died at Normandy)

THE OBSERVER ^ | 5/19/09 | SHAWN JEFFORDS

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rye wit

Well, he WAS a whisky drinker.

[a fool in paradise]

A young private James Doohan enlisted in the armed forces at the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

To hear the Left tell it, WWII started in 1941. That was their point of reference for how long it took us to win WWII in comparison with Boosh in Iraq. PS we ended WWII with 2 nukes, that might have brought a rapid conclusion to the conflict in Iraq as well...

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Mittengan ping for one of our nicest neighbors and Port Huron’s Canoogian twin.

[pgkdan]

and that along with the character's rye wit

I was cursed with a pumpernickle wit myself.

[sima_yi]

...your photo torpedo tubes jammed ...

Photo torpedo? PHOTO torpedo?

[Joe 6-pack]

"Can you imagine that in an episode of Star Trek?" Doohan said. "Scotty's life saved because a stray phaser blast was deflected by a silver cigarette case given to him by his brother. Fans would shake their heads and think the writers had lost their minds, falling back on unlikely clichés."

In the movie "A Bridge Too Far," Anthony Hopkins played Lieutenant Colonel John Frost, who later retired from the British Army as a Major General. The real Frost was brought on as a technical advisor for the film. In one scene, Hopkins has to cross a street controlled by German fire to get from his field HQ to see his wounded. During the first take, Hopkins dodged and ran through fire, and was roundly criticized by Frost who told him that in combat, it was bad form for a Battalion Commander to let his soldiers see him run from the enemy. Frost advised that at Arnhem, he had walked across the street a brisk but confident pace. The makers of the film stated that an audience would never believe it, so they used the original take, insisting that portraying the reality of the scene would have been too unrealistic to believe...

[B-Chan]

Uh, “rye wit”? Scotty was strictly a Scotch man.

[bvw]

Pumpernickle means "devil's fart". And it is made from a strong rye. Real pumpernickle! Not the cheapened American imitation made with cocoa for colorant.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I lived across the river from Sarnia for several years, and never knew that Doohan was a native...nor that the natives were called Sarnians. (I did know that Doohan was Canadian, and Sarnians sounds like a group of spacemen that Scotty would get into a bar fight with on Rigel 12)

Are they still looking for his ashes in the New Mexico desert?

[My hearts in London - Everett]

Weren’t those “photon” torpedoes? lol

[lewisglad]

[Moonman62]

How many hosers were on Star Trek, anyway?

[rmlew]

Audie Murphy had certain elements of his own career excised from his movie because he considered them too unbelievable. However, I'm of the opinion that the scariest most unbelievable bad---s of WW2 was a Finnish sniper named Simo Häyhä, and known as "White Death". He had 505 confirmed long distance kills. He also had over 200 confirmed kills of Soviets with his submachine gun. On top of this, he had 300 hundred unconfirmed kills. That is a 1000 killed by one sniper. He survived being hunted by companies of infantry and counter snipers. The Soviets used artillary and actually tried to bomb him, only slightly wounding him. He was finally taken out of the war, but not killed by an explosive bullet to the face. Let me say that again, he was not even killed by an exploding bullet to his face.

If you put this in a game, it would be impossible to do. No one would believe this in a movie. It is just too damn bad.... to believe.

[calex59]

If your dilithium crystals were ever fried, your photo torpedo tubes jammed or you were short a man in a brawl with the Klingons, Scotty was the guy you wanted.

[calex59]

If your dilithium crystals were ever fried, your photo torpedo tubes jammed or you were short a man in a brawl with the Klingons, Scotty was the guy you wanted.

But only if they insult the enterprise. Insulting the captain wouldn't get him riled!(One of the movies, I forget which one, the crew got into a bar fight because the other guys insulted the enterprise,AFTER insulting Capt. Kirk which didn't lead to the fight!)

[Covenantor]

All of Häyhä’s kills were accomplished in less than 100 days.

[lewisglad]

[massgopguy]

Scotty, look down and to your left.

[calex59]

I lived across the river from Sarnia for several years, and never knew that Doohan was a native...nor that the natives were called Sarnians. (I did know that Doohan was Canadian, and Sarnians sounds like a group of spacemen that Scotty would get into a bar fight with on Rigel 12) Are they still looking for his ashes in the New Mexico desert?

Actually, in the old game Space Quest I the enemy are the Sarians, close huh?