Re: [tlug] The Great Mistake is thinking OOo is different [was: Why Vista Sucks]

["SL Baur" <steve@example.com>]

On 4/22/08, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> 2008/4/22 SL Baur <steve@example.com>:
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>  >  Like Mr. Scott in the "Save the whales!" Star Trek Movie?
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> "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", I think you mean.

I think that's the right title.  It's the one where an incoming
menaces Earth of the future because the seas don't have
any whales any more and they take the Enterprise into the
past, land in Golden Gate Park to kidnap a pair of breeding
whales to relocate into the future.  Mr. Scott needs transparent
aluminum, Chekov and Uhura go aboard a nuclear submarine
to capture some sort of emitted radiation from the reactor.
Kirk rides a city bus and smashes a punk's boom box (to
the applause of the rest of the bus).  It's still "Save the Whales!"

> Here's the whole section:

> [faced with a 20th century computer]
> Scotty: Computer. Computer?
> [Bones hands him a mouse and he speaks into it]
> Scotty: Hello, computer.
> Dr. Nichols: Just use the keyboard.
> Scotty: Keyboard. How quaint.

Yup.  That's the right quote.  Hilarious.

The second best computer quote was also in the original
series where Kirk and Spock go back into time into depression
era New York and at one point Kirk's love interest asks Mr.
Spock what he's doing and he replies, "I am endeavoring to
create the world's first mnemonic circuit out of stone knives
and bear skins."  Somehow, I always manage to think of
stone knives and bear skins whenever I have to work with
something Microsoftish. :-)

-sb