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Usueless fact: i'm rubbish

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In the pilot episode of the original Star Trek William Shatner played the role of Captain Kirk whilst adopting a high as helium squeaky voice.

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The front page Quote of the Day comes from this very thread. (John Bellavia has entered more than 5000 contests and never won anything)...



It's a very representative quote from this thread as it is quite useless.


I'm not sure where in this thread it is, but I have to wonder... can he...

You know...


Underwater?


I bet there's a post shortly following that states that he can't.

Well he could...



...if it were possible...


...which it isnt...


...not physically anyway


but then we are talking philosophy and then that begs the sort of questioning like 'if a man were to vomit underwater but there was no one else underwater with him then did he really vomit'

Can you smell vomit underwater?

well a shark can, but it wouldnt know what vomit was as it has never been able to physically do it itself. it would just smell something and think 'whats that?' maybe. and meerkats. apparantly they have a very keen sense of smell. so if you got a meerkat and held in underwater and then vomited. it would know.

But I would also try and get you prosecuted for cruelty to animals... Surely making anyone or anything smell your vomit is cruel, let alone the holding under the water thing...

Traveller in Time reading the backlog
"< F19585?thread=369071&skip=4220&show=20#p45472395 > is the frontpage quote "

Gene Cernan was the last man on the moon.





So far.

I had a Monk Fish Green Curry tonight.

Traveller in Time in a loop
"The front page Quote of the Day comes from this very thread. 'The front page Quote of the Day comes from this very thread.'
< F19585?thread=369071&skip=4260&show=20#p45746020 > "

Now if this continues things could get very confusing!

"A man named John Bellavia has entered over 5,000 contests, and has never won anything"

I've been thinking about this chappie today. I'll have to do some Googling and find out why he is so unlucky. He can't be an internet user because, and I'm sure I speak for most of us, I manage to get constant emails telling me I've won competitions I didn't go in for!

There's summat in that there water, I'll bet, and it ain't bromide

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL185876020070218

Hi everyone ive been thinking about making guide entry on useless threads and would kindly loke everyone permission to put some of the facts in here in that guide ntry.

William Shatner was not in the pilot episode of Star Trek. But he can vomit underwater if phasers have been set to Barf.

Gahhh... I missed seeing my QotD.

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Well hokay then, but he was in the pilot pilot episode. ho jus. And as well as the squeaky voice originally he pretended to wink and twitch every time somebody said 'Klingon'.

Captain Pike is only in two episodes of Star Trek. Once in the Pilot episode, and once in another episode where he goes back to that planet.

In the Pilot the first officer was a woman, but the producers thought this would be too controversial (at the time) and the character was dropped, making Spock the first officer.