Well, he WAS a whisky drinker.
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...
Mittengan ping for one of our nicest neighbors and Port Huron’s Canoogian twin.
I was cursed with a pumpernickle wit myself.
Photo torpedo? PHOTO torpedo?
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...
Uh, “rye wit”? Scotty was strictly a Scotch man.
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?
Weren’t those “photon” torpedoes? lol
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!)
I met him a couple times at ‘Trek conventions. He was a really fun and nice guy all around. A real class act.
"This is Poker? We had a different name for it on the starship. We called it 'Let the Captain Win or He'll Kick Your Ass'!"
It was funnier with the accent ...
I like the new Trek but there will only be on Scotty for me and that's Doohan.
Here’s a toast of Trania for Scotty...
In his autobiography, "Giving Hitler the Finger," Doohan described what motivated him to leave Sarnia for the war. He was the fourth child born to Sarah and William Patrick Doohan, an alcoholic with a stormy temper... during the invasion of Normandy, and almost lost his life. He was shot six times by a sentry, four times in his leg, once in the chest and once through his middle finger, which had to be amputated. Miraculously, a bullet struck a silver cigarette case in his shirt pocket directly over his heart... Doohan eventually became a pilot and the experience inspired him... Doohan wrote that in the years after the war he was self-conscious about the wound and often hid his right hand from view while filming Star Trek. Observant fans can spot the missing finger in just three episodes... He was even awarded an honourary engineering degree from the Milwaukee School of Engineering... He was often quoted telling fans that "Scotty is ninety-nine per cent James Doohan and one per cent accent." That may be true, but to me, James Doohan is 100 per cent the Greatest Sarnian.Get ready to FReep that poll! Thanks grellis for the ping, and nick for posting it.
