Fascinating.
Posted on 11/27/2005 3:15:16 PM PST by BulletBobCo
Emmy-winning actor and science fiction legend William Shatner plans on beaming a rather rare rock on to eBay. Shatner recently passed a kidney stone, hopes to recover it from his doctors and sell it on eBay as the ultimate piece of Star Trek memorabilia. The sad thing is some goob will pay it.
Currently starring as his emmy-winning character, Denny Crane on "Boston Legal," Shatner is best known as the legendary Captain James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise. Shatner hopes to pass this kidney stone to one of the many fans through eBay and donate the proceeds to charity.
The tough part will be convincing eBay to let him sell it because they have a strict rule against selling body parts. It's unclear how small rocks passing through the body fit into this rule. Trekkers have shown a strange, otherworldly ability to buy all kinds of memorabilia. This wouldn't the first time eBay has sold some peculiar items in the past, including tattoos, miracle sandwiches and other oddities.
It's a fairly safe bet though that if eBay allows it, some charity will have a nice holiday gift. Some may think urethra nut or an idiot to bid on it, but one things for sure, it'll take stones to put your name up there.
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No way this can be true! A kidney stone as the ultimate Star Trek memorabilia?
I thought Shatner's so-called singing was gross, but this is really, really gross!
"It's dead, Jim."
I thought so too...but I googled it and it's all over the place.
"Can't make this stuff up"? I think you can, and someone did.
If you pull my other leg, it plays Jingle Bells.
Let's hope that when he dies, Shatner's brain is put in a jar and auctioned off too. Probably a Gerber baby food jar. /sarc
I thought so too...but I googled it and it's all over the place.>>>
"It's on the internet, so it MUST be TRUEEEEE...."
Only if he developed it during the Original Series.
Kidney stones don't actually "pass through the body".
They are formed on the inside, and work their way out.
But that's not the same as "passing through" (as if Shatner originally swallowed 'em.)
It can't be true. William Shatne would only offer it on Priceline.
going to the Stake Center too much, are you ?
"PAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNN!"
I say ebay should make an exception. How cool!
And Mr. Shatner is no doubt looking forward to the tax write-off from this charitable donation, all the while reaping the positive publicity for being so ostensibly selfless. This is probably his best gross earning year since the peak of "TJ Hooker"!
At least he's not selling the stuff he picked up while circling Uranus.
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