Humpday Cafe

Picadilly at Night, 1938
Bill Brandt

Ice-surfin' beaver.

New Dog-Sieve Technology separates dogs by size.

Springbok is happy and bouncy to see his caretaker.

Find something you love like this dog loves his dirty random stick.

Oooh that's the spot.

Punch the Monkey is becoming the teachers pet. I'll allow it, he was rejected by his mom and then bullied.

Bear has crazy bed-head.

I don't have any bats today, but here's an Antarctic Sea Bat.

I told you bears were out of control but you didn't believe me. Now they're doing the Lambada (The Forbidden Dance).

Quitting time!

Senior dog becomes a puppy after meeting a new puppy..🐕🐾😊

📹taiIs_allyandbeau pic.twitter.com/NuIjtO6mog
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 21, 2026

Pupper loves little frens..🐕🐾🐥😍 pic.twitter.com/QcZt5JD2RH
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 21, 2026

Dog's happiness after seeing its best friend..🐕🐾😅❤️ pic.twitter.com/SCFAldWY3b
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 22, 2026

Cats and boxes..🐈🐾📦😅 pic.twitter.com/ap0pwE1A0Q
— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) March 23, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 07:20 PM

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1 1st

Posted by: GF at March 25, 2026 07:19 PM (ZRLd9)

2 Foist.

Posted by: zombie at March 25, 2026 07:20 PM (Av6i5)

3 See, by posting "Foist," I can't be accused of claiming first when I was actually second.

Posted by: zombie at March 25, 2026 07:21 PM (Av6i5)

4 Is Picarilly Cafeteria still in business?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 25, 2026 07:21 PM (/THgZ)

5 Picadilly at Night, 1938
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Soon to be named "Mohammed", 202x....

Posted by: Axeman at March 25, 2026 07:22 PM (Fi81e)

6 My dog is afraid of sticks. She will also eat tree bark. Her sworn enemy is trees, apparently.

Posted by: banana Dream at March 25, 2026 07:24 PM (3uBP9)

7 Cafe! A raised glass to a nation of 8 million people that are giving their all to free 90 million.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 07:24 PM (+nEug)

8 Hey oh

Posted by: Accomack at March 25, 2026 07:25 PM (GbONR)

9 dog-sieve! lol!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 25, 2026 07:25 PM (MIIRH)

10 4 Is Picarilly Cafeteria still in business?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I would wager "No," along with 99% of other businesses open in 1938. Only a handful of ancient pubs are still running that were alsop running in 1938 -- The Grapes, The Prospect of Whitby, The Dove, The Angel, etc. etc. Everything else in London comes and goes.

Posted by: zombie at March 25, 2026 07:25 PM (Av6i5)

11 It is still in business.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 25, 2026 07:25 PM (/THgZ)

12 I liked almost everything about cats and boxes.

(But am now thinking of all the double entendres between the two...)

Posted by: Axeman at March 25, 2026 07:25 PM (Fi81e)

13 Ah, box kitties!

Out of my five kitties, only two of them are really "box kitties" (Penny and Hexie).

The others will sniff around and sometimes climb in, but they don't seem to feel a biological compulsion to sit in the box.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 07:25 PM (ESVrU)

14 Ahhh, beaver. Cute video. The national animal of Canada.

All grade 6 and 7 Canadian history class was about brave men exploring Canada looking for beaver.

I've successfully repelled the cats. Time for movies. Good night all.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 07:26 PM (Sco7b)

15 Yay. Made it home. Time for dinner.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 25, 2026 07:27 PM (MoLlY)

16 Good evening everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 07:27 PM (Ia/+0)

17 Okay, that Cats and Boxes video was funny.

Thanks.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 07:28 PM (Sco7b)

18 two days in a row of phoneposting / posting from other towns. hopefully over

Posted by: comcast sucks at March 25, 2026 07:28 PM (gKWVE)

19 7 Cafe! A raised glass to a nation of 8 million people that are giving their all to free 90 million.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 07:24 PM (+nEug)

F**kin' A.

Glass raised.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 25, 2026 07:31 PM (zYpTz)

20 Wonderful cafe, ace ...

Posted by: Adriane the Can't Take Photos, So Enjoy Other People's Critic . . . at March 25, 2026 07:31 PM (3ZUWJ)

21 You finished with the best.

Cat in a Box will never not be funny.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 07:31 PM (V4IXI)

22 but here's an Antarctic Sea Bat.

The amazing thing about that clip is how cheerful he is, despite having to scrub and scrub and scrub and wash and scrub and scrub and scrub and wash and scrub and scrub and scrub and wash and scrub and scrub and scrub and wash to remove the mephitic residues from the "Antarctic Sea Bats", something no true Chiroptophile, of which there are many within and without The Horde, would consider even close to the 'B' word, which as the World's Foremost Urban Justice Activist informed us, is Bat.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 25, 2026 07:32 PM (0sNs1)

23 Dash, and a glass to you dear lady.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 07:33 PM (+nEug)

24 oh man those box kitties

Posted by: BlackOrchid(j+aD2) at March 25, 2026 07:33 PM (j+aD2)

25 Nobody puts my Pussy in a box.

Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at March 25, 2026 07:33 PM (ZN5Ar)

26 Good old Picadilly.

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2026 07:34 PM (GD0B3)

27 Picadilly is right there.

It's a long way to Tipperary, however.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 25, 2026 07:34 PM (0sNs1)

28 Zoo guy has a monkey on his back.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 25, 2026 07:35 PM (Cqx++)

29 25 Nobody puts my Pussy in a box.
Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at March 25, 2026 07:33 PM (ZN5Ar)

...

Posted by: Somalia at March 25, 2026 07:36 PM (gKWVE)

30 Did Picadilly get bombed in the following years?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 25, 2026 07:37 PM (Cqx++)

31 Trivia of the Day:

"Piccadilly Circus" comes frome the name of a road called simply "Piccadilly" -- but where the heck did THAT bizarre name come from?

Well, back in the medieval era, it was simply called "Reading Road" (or "the road going to Reading"), until a guy named Robert Baker bought a lot along the road in the 1600s, and started selling a trendy new fashion accessory in his shop -- wide lace collars that dudes (and ladies) would wear with their fancy outfits starting in the early 1600s. Those lace collars were first popularized in Spain, where they were called "picadillo," because the lace-work was "pierced" with holes (which is what "picadillo" means).When the fashion came to England, the word was corrupted and misspelled as "piccadill," and over time, because this guy was the main supplier of piccadlls to the fops and gentry of the era, the street his shop was on became known as the "Piccadill-y street." Seriously.

As for the "Circus" part: Later, the British invented these terrible kind of circular road intersections now called "roundabouts," but when they were first invented, they were called "circuses" with "circus" simply being Latin for "circle" or "round."

Posted by: zombie at March 25, 2026 07:37 PM (Av6i5)

32 Minkeys are asshoe. Punch deserves better.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 25, 2026 07:37 PM (MoLlY)

33 >>>Well, back in the medieval era, it was simply called "Reading Road" (or "the road going to Reading"), until a guy named Robert Baker bought a lot along the road in the 1600s, and started selling a trendy new fashion accessory in his shop -- wide lace collars that dudes (and ladies) would wear with their fancy outfits starting in the early 1600s. Those lace collars were first popularized in Spain, where they were called "picadillo," because the lace-work was "pierced" with holes (which is what "picadillo" means).When the fashion came to England, the word was corrupted and misspelled as "piccadill," and over time, because this guy was the main supplier of piccadlls to the fops and gentry of the era, the street his shop was on became known as the "Piccadill-y street." Seriously.

oh, that's funny, I watched a video by some London vlogger explaining that about six months ago. But I forgot the explanation until you wrote it.

Posted by: ace at March 25, 2026 07:40 PM (1wjle)

34 That senior dog with puppy video was heartwarming.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 07:41 PM (8zz6B)

35
Dogs are dudes, cats are pussies. 'Twas always thus, shall always be.

Posted by: Auspex at March 25, 2026 07:42 PM (Y8DZL)

36 Overstimulated penguins are responsible for more zookeeper injuries than any other animal. Keepers should be better trained to prevent the traumatic mephitic molestation inflicted by these polymorphic perverse pests.

Posted by: Penguin Facts at March 25, 2026 07:43 PM (ZN5Ar)

37 raised glass to a nation of 8 million people that are giving their all to free 90 million."

Que?

Posted by: man at March 25, 2026 07:44 PM (XuXeR)

38 I like Fr Simon's stated theory of language change: aging and alcohol. Explaine how time and booze got "buckaroo" from "vaquero."

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at March 25, 2026 07:45 PM (YlWIZ)

39 31 Trivia of the Day:

"Piccadilly Circus" comes frome the name of a road called simply "Piccadilly" -- but where the heck did THAT bizarre name come from?

Posted by: zombie at March 25, 2026 07:37 PM (Av6i5)

Thanks for that! I always wondered.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 25, 2026 07:45 PM (zYpTz)

40 "Piccadilly Circus" comes frome the name of a road called simply "Piccadilly" -- but where the heck did THAT bizarre name come from?

Posted by: zombie at March 25, 2026 07:37 PM (Av6i5)
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They wanted to pick a name, one person advised "pick a dilly".

Posted by: Axeman at March 25, 2026 07:46 PM (Fi81e)

41 Take a ride on the Reading

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 25, 2026 07:46 PM (Cqx++)

42 Picadilly was a restaurant we went to in Louisiana when I was a kid. It was like Luby's is in Texas.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 07:51 PM (V4IXI)

43 Been to Piccadilly in London, British have all sorts of goofy names

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 07:55 PM (Ia/+0)

44 Now that I've binged watched all the Star Trek episodes, Dr McCoy is the dumbest character on the show.

I'm a retard Jim! Not a doctor!

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 07:57 PM (V4IXI)

45 Jamie Dimon says US has 'become like Europe' on defense, and it's holding the country back [the] excessive bureaucracy in defense procurement inhibits the US ability to adapt during a conflict

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2026 07:58 PM (jmsL3)

46 Que?
Posted by: man at March 25, 2026 07:44 PM (XuXeR)

Israel, Iran

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 25, 2026 07:59 PM (zYpTz)

47 I'm watching an old travelogue of Bavaria and the slappy dance looks just like a Monty Python skit.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at March 25, 2026 07:59 PM (kpS4V)

48 man,Israel.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 08:01 PM (+nEug)

49 Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 07:57 PM (V4IXI)

McCoy never saves anyone. He simply checks the pulse and gives up, which I guess was the standard in the mid 60s. When did the whole CPR kick get started?

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at March 25, 2026 08:03 PM (wGerL)

50 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 08:03 PM (Zz0t1)

51 Dogs rule. Cats suck.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 08:04 PM (Zz0t1)

52 McCoy never saves anyone. He simply checks the pulse and gives up, which I guess was the standard in the mid 60s. When did the whole CPR kick get started?

Posted by: Ted Torgerson at March 25, 2026 08:03 PM (wGerL)

The red shirts are already dead by the time he gets to them.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 08:04 PM (snZF9)

53 Hump Day is my favorite day!

Posted by: B.J. Clinton at March 25, 2026 08:05 PM (2Ez/1)

54 Sponge, and here I was spoiling for a fight about the war

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 08:05 PM (+nEug)

55 Jamie Dimon says US has 'become like Europe' on defense, and it's holding the country back [the] excessive bureaucracy in defense procurement inhibits the US ability to adapt during a conflict
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2026 07:58 PM (jmsL3)

Where has he been the last 160 years?

US military weapons procurement has been a fuck up for almost two centuries. But to paraphrase Churchill, we eventually get it right.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 08:06 PM (V4IXI)

56 Jamie Dimon has never been right about anything.

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2026 08:07 PM (GD0B3)

57
When did the whole CPR kick get started?
Posted by: Ted Torgerson

1972

www.imdb.com/title/tt0068067

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 25, 2026 08:07 PM (Cqx++)

58 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 08:07 PM (Ia/+0)

59 Skip, same to you.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 08:08 PM (+nEug)

60 I'm starting to wish that someone would punch that damn monkey.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 25, 2026 08:08 PM (syz1S)

61
Been to Piccadilly in London, British have all sorts of goofy names
Posted by: Skip

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Gardy-loo!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2026 08:08 PM (XJ22o)

62 10 4 Is Picarilly Cafeteria still in business?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

I would wager "No," along with 99% of other businesses open in 1938. Only a handful of ancient pubs are still running that were alsop running in 1938 -- The Grapes, The Prospect of Whitby, The Dove, The Angel, etc. etc. Everything else in London comes and goes.
Posted by: zombie at March 25, 2026 07:25 PM (Av6i5)
We used to have two Luby's, best food ever, and they went toes up

Posted by: Eromero at March 25, 2026 08:08 PM (LHPAg)

63 Surfing beaver rocks

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 08:09 PM (Wnv9h)

64 Sponge, and here I was spoiling for a fight about the war
Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 08:05 PM (+nEug)

"Don't mention the war!"

- Basil Fawlty

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 25, 2026 08:10 PM (Wnv9h)

65 McCoy never saves anyone. He simply checks the pulse and gives up, which I guess was the standard in the mid 60s. When did the whole CPR kick get started?
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at March 25, 2026 08:03 PM (wGerL)

He never ever sees the obvious. To the point of getting people killed or almost killed.

One episode, the salt eating creature episode, he still wouldn't shoot the creature sucking the salt out of Kirk even after it revealed itself.

The writers did him no favors.

Posted by: Harry Vandenburg at March 25, 2026 08:10 PM (V4IXI)

66 Richard Grenell@RichardGrenell . 4h

Get China out of our food supply
Support the Trump Farm Bill!

@ProtectUSInit

NEW polling shows that amid the Iranian conflict, voters across 24 competitive congressional districts will reward candidates who follow President Trump’s lead to protect domestic manufacturers and support the 2026 Farm Bill

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2026 08:10 PM (jmsL3)

67 RMBS, it is the Cafe so I will be good.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 08:13 PM (+nEug)

68 Sponge, and here I was spoiling for a fight about the war
Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 08:05 PM (+nEug)

**********

I'll never get over Macho Grande.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 25, 2026 08:14 PM (Zz0t1)

69
RMBS, it is the Cafe so I will be good.
Posted by: Ben Had

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What about Israel? You know you want to tell us.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 25, 2026 08:15 PM (XJ22o)

70 All well-adjusted Morons celebrate the inclusion of Antarctic Sea Bat content. Heartwarming video of friendly penguins greeting the man who spiffs up their enclosure. Thanks to Ace for loving us so much!!!

Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at March 25, 2026 08:17 PM (oftw2)

71 Blonde Morticia, I want to unleash a stream of invective against anyone that has ever questioned our alliance with Israel and the so called "aid"

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 08:18 PM (+nEug)

72 Hey, good evening! It’s a very pleasant evening here on the patio. The dogs are chillin, the birds are coming to the feeders and I saw a dragonfly zipping about. Not a single cloud in the sky and just a slight breeze, enough to move the wind chimes.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 25, 2026 08:18 PM (3Ope8)

73 Not to be confused with Piccalilli relish. Though, it certainly will put you in a pickle.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2026 08:19 PM (diia5)

74 At least McCoy wasn't a counselor.

Tactical Officer: "Captain, those last two hits brought our shields down to 78%!"

Counselor:"Captain, I'm sensing they are pissed!"

And it's sad PlutoTV doesn't have a DS9 channel.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 08:19 PM (Sco7b)

75 All well-adjusted Morons celebrate the inclusion of Antarctic Sea Bat content. Heartwarming video of friendly penguins greeting the man who spiffs up their enclosure. Thanks to Ace for loving us so much!!!
Posted by: Merry Marching Penguin Majority at March 25, 2026 08:17 PM (oftw2)

We should offer to stay Dr. Fauci's death penalty, if he agrees to devote the rest of his life to grafting gills onto penguins so they can spend their entire lives in the sea, and befoul the land no longer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 08:20 PM (8zz6B)

76 I told you bears were out of control but you didn't believe me. Now they're doing the Lambada (The Forbidden Dance).
________
They need to get a cave.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 25, 2026 08:21 PM (AlhUl)

77 It's just Nixon and this damn war!

Posted by: Someone has to say it at March 25, 2026 08:21 PM (2Ez/1)

78 Piccadilly Circus

Anybody here know/remember the Rod McKuen song about Piccadilly Circus?

My mom was a huge McKuen fan. The only verse I can remember is this one -- actually this is the chorus: One more time around Piccadilly Circus, driver, follow that bus. It's a shame the way the rich folks act, 'cuz everybody's rich but us.
Verse: I bought my doggie a muzzle, so he wouldn't bite the man with the mail. But there lies the mailman dead on the walk, he killed him with his tail.
Oh, one more time around Piccadilly Circus . . .

Posted by: TecumsehTea at March 25, 2026 08:23 PM (nz1sK)

79 I miss Jewells and her description of the horizontal Lambada.

Gone but not forgotten, love.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 08:23 PM (+nEug)

80 Cats in boxes is cute. Cats v cucumbers is some funny stuff.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 25, 2026 08:26 PM (3Ope8)

81 Richard Grenell@RichardGrenell . Mar 24
Read every word of this.

It’s out.
@ChuckGrassley is an amazing fighter.

The subpoena released this morning by Chuck Grassley in connection with the fraudulent Arctic Frost investigation is absolutely staggering. It didn’t just ask for Kash Patel’s phone records, it asked for everything he did from 2020 to 2023.

Just to name a few, they requested all usernames and screen names, every address and email, complete billing and payment details including credit card and bank account numbers, every device ID, and a full log of every call, text, and voicemail showing who was contacted, when, and for how long. They also obtained all internet session data, including the exact IP addresses.

So this wasn’t just about who Kash called. It was basically a complete view of his entire life, mapping his daily routines, travel, relationships, finances, and even tracking the specific hardware he used. In short, they got a full digital shadow of his life.

To have come through all of this without so much as a scratch tells you just how clean he is.

https://tinyurl.com/7ehzwavt

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2026 08:28 PM (jmsL3)

82 My cats are scared of boxes.

My cats are also retarded.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 08:28 PM (AkEZC)

83 73 Not to be confused with Piccalilli relish. Though, it certainly will put you in a pickle.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at March 25, 2026 08:19 PM (diia5)
Piccalilli relish is best on rice with speckled butterbeans and okra.

Posted by: Eromero at March 25, 2026 08:28 PM (LHPAg)

84 72 Hey, good evening! It’s a very pleasant evening here on the patio. The dogs are chillin, the birds are coming to the feeders and I saw a dragonfly zipping about. Not a single cloud in the sky and just a slight breeze, enough to move the wind chimes.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 25, 2026 08:18 PM (3Ope

I got out for a walk--weather was perfect for it. Walked by the golf course, and I really wanted to take the cart path through the golf course, because it's Forbidden! Carts only! Course isn't open yet, I went for it. I'm a rebel.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 25, 2026 08:30 PM (zYpTz)

85 My cats are scared of boxes.

My cats are also retarded.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 08:28 PM (AkEZC)

My dog is afraid of brightly colored objects.

I'd really like to take a baseball bat to the fuckers who had him for three months.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2026 08:33 PM (zZu0s)

86 Course isn't open yet, I went for it. I'm a rebel.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs!

Ooh, I'd be practicing my wedges...

Posted by: MkY at March 25, 2026 08:33 PM (q6tQZ)

87 I just checked the end of the previous thread. The trouble with what people were saying about WWI was it was all through the eyes of the army. From the time the Brits accepted convoy, it was hopeless for Germany. They were going to go under.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 25, 2026 08:33 PM (AlhUl)

88 Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 25, 2026 08:30 PM (zYpTz)

Good for you! Takin the two youngest grandkids to the par 3 golf course tomorrow after school!

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 25, 2026 08:33 PM (3Ope8)

89 Elon Musk retweeted
DC_Draino@DC_Draino . 2h

We won the popular vote.

We control the Supreme Court.

We won majorities in the House and Senate.

Americans want GOP policies and Voter ID is supported by 80%+ of all Americans.

And all John Thune can do is make excuses for his incompetence and backstabbing.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2026 08:34 PM (jmsL3)

90 > Philly DA Larry Krasner Threatens to Handcuff and Jail ICE Agents Working at Philadelphia Airport: ‘The President Cannot Pardon You!’

Mr Krasner, you have just indicated yourself for conspiracy to violate civil rights. First and last warnings, try to handcuff and jail ICE agents, that is to unlawfully imprison them, and they will use any level of force up to including lethal force to resist that violation of their rights, and you will be immediately arrested for their rights violation with penalty up to including capital punishment. Resign effectively and charges against you may be suspended. Either way, suggest you turn yourself in.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 25, 2026 08:35 PM (/lPRQ)

91 It's not Thune. Thune is a pimp.
It's Vance. Vance is the President of the Senate. He is the one who needs to take charge.
If Vance does not, he does not deserve the nomination in 2028.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 25, 2026 08:36 PM (gKWVE)

92 There’s nothing incompetent about Thune. He knows what he’s doing and it ain’t what PDTS wants.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 25, 2026 08:37 PM (3Ope8)

93 If YOU haven't called milquetoast Thune's office and voiced an opinion you have no right to bitch.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 08:38 PM (+nEug)

94 > Philly DA Larry Krasner Threatens to Handcuff and Jail ICE Agents

.... upon further glance at the article...
He threatened to arrest people who violate the law while specifically speaking to ICE agents...

OK, Buddy, If YOU cheat on your taxes, if YOU so much as say 'good day' to an illegal...

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 25, 2026 08:39 PM (/lPRQ)

95
49

McCoy never saves anyone. He simply checks the pulse and gives up, which I guess was the standard in the mid 60s. When did the whole CPR kick get started?
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at March 25, 2026 08:03 PM (wGerL)

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it makes dramatic sense, not medical sense. Everyone who died on the show was killed by the writers.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 25, 2026 08:40 PM (GkBlw)

96 McCoy never saves anyone. He simply checks the pulse and gives up, which I guess was the standard in the mid 60s. When did the whole CPR kick get started?
Posted by: Ted Torgerson at March 25, 2026 08:03 PM (wGerL)

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it makes dramatic sense, not medical sense. Everyone who died on the show was killed by the writers.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

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Just like the Red Shirt meme,
If you have McCoy as your doctor you good as dead.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 25, 2026 08:42 PM (/lPRQ)

97 It's Vance. Vance is the President of the Senate. He is the one who needs to take charge.
If Vance does not, he does not deserve the nomination in 2028.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 25, 2026 08:36 PM (gKWVE)

You are full of it.

Posted by: Ronster at March 25, 2026 08:44 PM (L+mJe)

98 If you asked 100 people on the street "Who is Captain Kirk's best friend?", 90 of them would say, "Spock, of course." But they'd all be wrong, because the actual answer, according to the show's original writers, is ... McCoy.

Spock is just someone Kirk respects and trusts a whole lot. But "Bones" McCoy is is one true friend. Supposedly.

Posted by: zombie at March 25, 2026 08:45 PM (Av6i5)

99 Just like the Red Shirt meme,
If you have McCoy as your doctor you good as dead.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 25, 2026 08:42 PM (/lPRQ)

DeForest Kelley was an actor, not a doctor, so that figures.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 08:45 PM (8zz6B)

100 You are full of it.
Posted by: Ronster

You got nothin'.

Posted by: gKWVE at March 25, 2026 08:45 PM (gKWVE)

101 If you asked 100 people on the street "Who is Captain Kirk's best friend?", 90 of them would say, "Spock, of course." But they'd all be wrong, because the actual answer, according to the show's original writers, is ... McCoy.
Posted by: zombie

"Did the green-skinned space babe have a name?"

Posted by: mikeski's "answer" at March 25, 2026 08:46 PM (VHUov)

102 DeForest Kelley was an actor, dammit, not a doctor, so that figures.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 08:45 PM (8zz6B)
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FIFY

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2026 08:46 PM (RIvkX)

103 Give McCoy some credit. He did reinstall Spock's brain.

Posted by: Halfhand at March 25, 2026 08:47 PM (BSRx7)

104 FIFY
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2026 08:46 PM (RIvkX)

LOL

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 25, 2026 08:47 PM (8zz6B)

105 Bones saves Sareks life. (Heart transplant.)

Also saves Sulu in City on the Edge of Forever when his heart stops after that panel blows up.

He saves the Horta with the cement.

He delivers a baby somewhere in there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2026 08:47 PM (zZu0s)

106 You are full of it.
Posted by: Ronster

You got nothin'.
Posted by: gKWVE at March 25, 2026 08:45 PM (gKWVE)

Nu uh!

Sorry, could not resist.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2026 08:48 PM (zZu0s)

107 If you like Dr. McCoy you can keep Dr. McCoy.

Posted by: Eromero at March 25, 2026 08:49 PM (LHPAg)

108
81 Richard Grenell@RichardGrenell . Mar 24
Read every word of this.

It’s out.
@ChuckGrassley is an amazing fighter.

The subpoena released this morning by Chuck Grassley in connection with the fraudulent Arctic Frost investigation is absolutely staggering. It didn’t just ask for Kash Patel’s phone records, it asked for everything he did from 2020 to 2023.

Just to name a few, they requested all usernames and screen names, every address and email, complete billing and payment details including credit card and bank account numbers, every device ID, and a full log of every call, text, and voicemail showing who was contacted, when, and for how long. They also obtained all internet session data, including the exact IP addresses.

So this wasn’t just about who Kash called. It was basically a complete view of his entire life, mapping his daily routines, travel, relationships, finances, and even tracking the specific hardware he used. In short, they got a full digital shadow of his

https://tinyurl.com/7ehzwavt
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Frienda
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I think that's why the Left lusted after Trump's tax returns -- to go after everyone he did business with.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 25, 2026 08:49 PM (GkBlw)

109 If you like Dr. McCoy you can keep Dr. McCoy.
Posted by: Eromero at March 25, 2026 08:49 PM (LHPAg)

He's entertaining. Plus, better bedside manner than pretty much any real world doctor i have been to.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2026 08:49 PM (zZu0s)

110 He's entertaining. Plus, better bedside manner than pretty much any real world doctor i have been to.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2026 08:49 PM (zZu0s)

The Paolo, he is naming the Paolo's home "Bedside Manor". Dick move, I know.

Posted by: The Paolo at March 25, 2026 08:52 PM (8zz6B)

111 Writing episodes for any of the doctors, in any of the series, had to suck. The writers probably wished the doctors were there to properly advise them how to slit their wrists.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 08:52 PM (Sco7b)

112 I remember reading some early fanfic that told the story of how McCoy wound up in Starfleet.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2026 08:53 PM (RIvkX)

113 109 If you like Dr. McCoy you can keep Dr. McCoy.
Posted by: Eromero at March 25, 2026 08:49 PM (LHPAg)

He's entertaining. Plus, better bedside manner than pretty much any real world doctor i have been to.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2026 08:49 PM (zZu0s)
Well, yeah. Dr. McCoy would at least treat patients who were outside the Star Fleet medical plan.

Posted by: Eromero at March 25, 2026 08:53 PM (LHPAg)

114
Did they ever introduce profanity into the Star Trek movies?

McCoy: "Spock, you cold-blooded piece of shit!"

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 25, 2026 08:54 PM (GkBlw)

115 I think Strange New Worlds, which has been mostly good, is bringing in McCoy the next season.

Good night.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 08:54 PM (Sco7b)

116 Data said 'Oh shit!' In the movie where the Enterprise was crash landing. I think it was movie 6.

Posted by: Stateless - Day 6 - extreme dog care at March 25, 2026 08:56 PM (Sco7b)

117 I remember reading some early fanfic that told the story of how McCoy wound up in Starfleet.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2026 08:53 PM (RIvkX)

IIRC, I am not sure they covered that ever in the show. Dont think so. In the books, Kirk is injured while on the Farragut bad knee injury. Bones is his assigned rehab doctor. They became fast friends and McCoy either joined Starfleet in order to serve with Kirk or Kirk got him for the Enterprise when he took command (or as quick as he could.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2026 08:56 PM (zZu0s)

118 Did they ever introduce profanity into the Star Trek movies?

McCoy: "Spock, you cold-blooded piece of shit!"
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 25, 2026 08:54 PM (GkBlw)

The new shit, they curse all the time. Like teenagers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2026 08:57 PM (zZu0s)

119 In the one with the space whale ship Spock notes Kirk's colorful colloquialisms. "Double-Dumbass to you!"

Posted by: davidt at March 25, 2026 08:58 PM (Q+gd/)

120 If you asked 100 people on the street "Who is Captain Kirk's best friend?", 90 of them would say, "Spock, of course." But they'd all be wrong, because the actual answer, according to the show's original writers, is ... McCoy.
Posted by: zombie
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Yeah, that's pretty much true. Kirk and McCoy have a true emotional bond of friendship. Spock is the "intellectual" friend. Both Kirk and McCoy see Spock as a friend (and vice versa), but the bond is a bit more distant because of Spock's Vulcan nature.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 08:58 PM (ESVrU)

121
112 I remember reading some early fanfic that told the story of how McCoy wound up in Starfleet.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 25, 2026 08:53 PM

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Was it like that grieving drunken pharmacist in "It's a Wonderful Life," and George Bailey wasn't there to correct him? McCoy fled to the frontier?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 25, 2026 08:59 PM (GkBlw)

122 Aye, Captain! I'm giving this fucker all she's got!

Posted by: Mr Scott at March 25, 2026 09:01 PM (BAWkL)

123 Doktor Mommy Jill, someone shat my pants again!

Posted by: Preznit Joe Emeritus at March 25, 2026 09:02 PM (oftw2)

124 All those cars and people in Picadilly 1938 are on the scrap heap of history.

Posted by: Memento Moron at March 25, 2026 09:04 PM (oftw2)

125

Gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy - I got a clean bill of health from Dr. McCoy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 25, 2026 09:05 PM (Cqx++)

126 Captain be fucking dem green bitches again

Posted by: Ohura at March 25, 2026 09:05 PM (BAWkL)

127
123 Doktor Mommy Jill, someone shat my pants again!
Posted by: Preznit Joe Emeritus at March 25, 2026 09:02 PM

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So, Biden shits himself and... says it wasn't him... the topology calls to us. It's like halfway to a Klein bottle.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 25, 2026 09:05 PM (GkBlw)

128 I imagine in the new Star Fleet Academy they will just change out the old brain system into an other sex body, make's more sense that that other chemical bloody mess. I mean if they're so advanced and all (except in the morals department).

Posted by: Eromero at March 25, 2026 09:05 PM (LHPAg)

129
125

Gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy - I got a clean bill of health from Dr. McCoy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 25, 2026 09:05 PM

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His name was Adam. He was a dumbass who died after eating a pear with a racing stripe on it. He died of an alien toxin and Biblical irony. McCoy did not save him.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at March 25, 2026 09:09 PM (GkBlw)

130
RIP Valerie Perrine
"Miss Tessmacher!"

Posted by: Don Black at March 25, 2026 09:09 PM (ZxPkt)

131 How do you fight this mentality?

@tedcruz
·
4h
Sheridan Gorman’s school paper apologized to her murderer for correctly identifying him as an illegal alien.

Posted by: Don Black at March 25, 2026 09:12 PM (ZxPkt)

132 Cafe! A raised glass to a nation of 8 million people that are giving their all to free 90 million.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 25, 2026 07:24 PM (+nEug)

F**kin' A.

Glass raised.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at March 25, 2026 07:31 PM (zYpTz

Cheers!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2026 09:13 PM (2WIwB)

133 I''m not saying there are pictures of Thune dancing with little boys but you never know.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at March 25, 2026 09:13 PM (jmsL3)

134 McCoy never saves anyone. He simply checks the pulse and gives up, which I guess was the standard in the mid 60s.
Posted by: Ted Torgerson

The Deadly Years - he saved everybody.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 25, 2026 09:13 PM (KAi1n)

135 If you asked 100 people on the street "Who is Captain Kirk's best friend?", 90 of them would say, "Spock, of course." But they'd all be wrong, because the actual answer, according to the show's original writers, is ... McCoy.

Spock is just someone Kirk respects and trusts a whole lot. But "Bones" McCoy is is one true friend. Supposedly.
Posted by: zombie at March 25, 2026

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Evening, all,

Yes, but did Kirk ever risk his career, twice, to save McCoy/take the chance he could be revived? And the second time he lost his ship and his son in the bargain. There's more between K & S than just respect (and no, I'm not talking slash fan fiction stuff).

Like Solo and Illya on U.N.C.L.E. before them, Kirk and Spock are each other's Thousandth Man (see Kipling).

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:14 PM (wzUl9)

136 Gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy - I got a clean bill of health from Dr. McCoy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 25, 2026 09:05 PM (Cqx++)

Dude!
That's taking a chance.
He only has one prognosis if the results were anything else.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2026 09:15 PM (2WIwB)

137 So I've been reading The Hobbit and The Fellowship of the Ring.

As I read through both books, I am constantly amazed by the level of detail the developers of Lord of the Rings Online took when crafting the world of Middle-Earth.

They take great pains to get the details *right.*

It's astonishing how accurate the game world is compared to the books.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 09:17 PM (ESVrU)

138
He only has one prognosis if the results were anything else.
Posted by: Diogenes

Moon MAID

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 25, 2026 09:18 PM (Cqx++)

139 I take one break to eat some teriyaki jerkies and come back to ace rage stroking out at Tolkien

Dang son what in blazes did Tolkien do to you

Oh let me guess, another Moorcock fan amirite?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at March 25, 2026 09:19 PM (REq0p)

140 Yes, but did Kirk ever risk his career, twice, to save McCoy/take the chance he could be revived? And the second time he lost his ship and his son in the bargain. There's more between K & S than just respect (and no, I'm not talking slash fan fiction stuff).

Like Solo and Illya on U.N.C.L.E. before them, Kirk and Spock are each other's Thousandth Man (see Kipling).
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:14 PM (wzUl9)
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Search for Spock was as much about saving McCoy from madness and death as it was about returning Spock to life.

In fact, the original plan was NOT to return Spock to life--that was just the more dangerous option.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 09:19 PM (ESVrU)

141 Re: McCoy, I seem to recall in the show's bible, or the parts of it that were quoted in Stephen Whitfield's Making of book in 1968, that McCoy was slightly older than Kirk, took courses in space medicine after some tragedy in his own life -- not sure what; maybe the death of a wife? -- and joined Star Fleet. He did not go through the Academy. Remember when another captain called Kirk "Captain Dunsel," and Spock had to explain that it meant "a part that serves no useful purpose" in Academy cadet slang? McCoy would have known that if he'd been at the Academy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:20 PM (wzUl9)

142 How do you fight this mentality?

@tedcruz
·
4h
Sheridan Gorman’s school paper apologized to her murderer for correctly identifying him as

an illegal alien.
Posted by: Don Black

You don't. You kill it with fire.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 25, 2026 09:20 PM (BAWkL)

143 How do you fight this mentality?

@tedcruz
·
4h
Sheridan Gorman’s school paper apologized to her murderer for correctly identifying him as an illegal alien.

Posted by: Don Black at March 25, 2026 09:12 PM (ZxPkt)

With automatic weapons.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 09:21 PM (snZF9)

144 Search for Spock was as much about saving McCoy from madness and death as it was about returning Spock to life.

In fact, the original plan was NOT to return Spock to life--that was just the more dangerous option.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026

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Perfessor, your first point is a good one. But they were still going to find Spock's body and try to reunite it with his "essence" inside McCoy, right? In any case Star Fleet said, "The planet is off limits," and Kirk risked his career to go anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:22 PM (wzUl9)

145 McCoy was my favorite character.

Blunt. Truthful. Honorable.

And he wasn’t a predator.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 09:23 PM (v4ZRc)

146 McCoy was my favorite character.

Blunt. Truthful. Honorable.

And he wasn’t a predator.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026

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In any other series, one without the even more colorful and towering figures of Kirk and Spock, he could have been the lead.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:25 PM (wzUl9)

147 Anyway! The cat video with the boxes is hilarious and very true. I was amazed at the snippet where the guy decants the cat from a long narrow tube of a box, and the cat whirls and leaps right back into it.

"Antarctic Sea Bat" -- good one.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:26 PM (wzUl9)

148 I love you guys.

Total ST nerds. Please let me sit at
Your table.

Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 09:27 PM (v4ZRc)

149 I saw a good YouTube vid that delves into Star Trek fiction which I think they call beta canon where it’s not official but really make a strong effort to add to the lore

Discussed a series that has Picard and others visit another galaxy and witness the works of insanely godlike beings including one of which trapped every star IN THE galaxy into what was called Dyson spheres

Wild stuff you wouldn’t see in a show but still cool

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at March 25, 2026 09:27 PM (REq0p)

150 Perfessor, your first point is a good one. But they were still going to find Spock's body and try to reunite it with his "essence" inside McCoy, right? In any case Star Fleet said, "The planet is off limits," and Kirk risked his career to go anyway.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:22 PM (wzUl9)
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It was actually Sarek that requested the refusion (fal tor pan) that would rejoin Spock's katra with his body.

I believe Vulcan tradition was that the katra would be housed in another properly-prepared vessel in Mt. Seleya, but Spock's body was necessary to get the katra out of McCoy (as it was an empty vessel). Restoring Spock to life was dangerous and hadn't been attempted in thousands of years.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 09:27 PM (ESVrU)

151 Re: DeForest Kelley, I've seen some of his old guest shots on TV Westerns. He played a particularly nasty villain on a Trackdown w/ Robert Culp, for example.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:28 PM (wzUl9)

152 Search for Spock was as much about saving McCoy from madness and death as it was about returning Spock to life.

In fact, the original plan was NOT to return Spock to life--that was just the more dangerous option.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 09:19 PM (ESVrU)
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McCoy is clearly the closer friend. Wrath of Khan removes any doubt of this. It is McCoy who gives Kirk the glasses and forced Kirk to explain why he is so bent out of shape. It is also McCoy who teases Kirk about an old flame, only to get a rebuke. Spock did not know about this at all.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 25, 2026 09:29 PM (ZOv7s)

153 I love you guys.

Total ST nerds. Please let me sit at
Your table.
Posted by: nurse ratched at March 25, 2026 09:27 PM (v4ZRc)

Logical.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 25, 2026 09:31 PM (2WIwB)

154 In any other series, one without the even more colorful and towering figures of Kirk and Spock, he could have been the lead.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:25 PM (wzUl9
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Kirk was repaying a debt of honor. Spock died saving the Enterprise. That didn't mean they were besties.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 25, 2026 09:31 PM (ZOv7s)

155 In season 2 of star trek TNG they replaced Crusher with that hag Dr Pulaski. They seemed to have tried to give her a McCoy type personality. Yeah, didn't work. I think Crusher was actually closer to McCoy in some ways. McCoy used to refer to himself as just an old country doctor, but crusher also knew frontier medicine she learned from her grandmother. Crusher was also closer to picard than anybody else, as McCoy was to Kirk.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 09:32 PM (snZF9)

156 I really enjoyed Star Trek Online the game because they do a great job or weaving original series storylines with TNG, Voyager etc, really nice and fun story arcs

Then they added Star Trek Discovery and thus another game is enpoopified by the woketard

Discovery is not canon

The kelvin timeline movies are not canon

Get off my lawn

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Where Are My Keto Cheetos at March 25, 2026 09:32 PM (REq0p)

157 Kelley had the lead in one of his very first movies, in 1946: Fear in the Night, based on a Cornell Woolrich story.

"Bank teller Vince Grayson [Kelley] wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a strange, mirrored room. Only a dream ... but Vince finds that he has physical objects and bruises from his 'dream.' His cop brother-in-law dismisses his story ... until the family, on a picnic, takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a deserted mansion containing that mirrored room. Is doom closing in on Vince?"

I didn't get to see all of it; maybe Movies! will show it again. I can tell you he wears a fedora very well!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:33 PM (wzUl9)

158 Did Kirk and Spock ever banter about girls?

Again, Wrath of Khan:

McCoy: "Is she wearing her hair differently?"
Kirk (after remarking on it to her a moment before): "I hadn't noticed."

Nothing like that jocularity with Spock.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 25, 2026 09:33 PM (ZOv7s)

159 MLB season opener tonite, Yankees at Giants. Can only be viewed on Netflix. Not available on free tv.

Posted by: Joemarine at March 25, 2026 09:34 PM (y171U)

160 Crusher was also closer to picard than anybody else, as McCoy was to Kirk.

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so close they had a baby !

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2026 09:36 PM (GD0B3)

161 so close they had a baby !

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2026 09:36 PM (GD0B3)

Well that came way later. During TNG they use to have breakfast or diner together.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 09:38 PM (snZF9)

162 Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are a triad. Spock functions as the embodiment of one part of Kirk's personality, the intellectual, rational man. McCoy functions to show and voice his emotional and moral center. With the two of them as external characters, the writers could show the dual nature of Kirk's personality.

Robert B. Parker did the same thing in his novels with Spenser's lady friend, Susan, and his occasional partner/former fellow boxer/strong man Hawk. Spenser's dual nature, again personified for the reader.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:38 PM (wzUl9)

163 Kirk was closer to McCoy at the outset but became closer to Spock during their 5 year voyage. While both McCoy and Spock occasionally addressed Kirk as "Jim", that was a much bigger deal for Spock whereas McCoy was a human sensualist.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at March 25, 2026 09:39 PM (KAi1n)

164 so close they had a baby !

Posted by: runner at March 25, 2026 09:36 PM (GD0B3)

Well that came way later. During TNG they use to have breakfast or diner together.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026

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In the final episode of TNG, Q shows Picard his possible future as an older man. The older Picard finds Beverly commanding a ship, and her crewman calls her "Captain Picard." Picard looks at her. "You kept the name?"

That one line told us all we needed to know -- that they had been married and no longer were, and had not been in touch in a while. Well done.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:41 PM (wzUl9)

165 Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are a triad. Spock functions as the embodiment of one part of Kirk's personality, the intellectual, rational man. McCoy functions to show and voice his emotional and moral center. With the two of them as external characters, the writers could show the dual nature of Kirk's personality.

Robert B. Parker did the same thing in his novels with Spenser's lady friend, Susan, and his occasional partner/former fellow boxer/strong man Hawk. Spenser's dual nature, again personified for the reader.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:38 PM (wzUl9)
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The "Power Trio" is a pretty standard trope in fiction.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 09:41 PM (ESVrU)

166 The "Power Trio" is a pretty standard trope in fiction.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026

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I'm not surprised.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:43 PM (wzUl9)

167 I'm feeling a wee bit left out here.

Posted by: Scotty at March 25, 2026 09:43 PM (Q+gd/)

168 151 Re: DeForest Kelley, I've seen some of his old guest shots on TV Westerns. He played a particularly nasty villain on a Trackdown w/ Robert Culp, for example.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:28 PM (wzUl9)

He played a good western fast-draw gunslinger.

Posted by: Joemarine at March 25, 2026 09:43 PM (y171U)

169 Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are a triad. Spock functions as the embodiment of one part of Kirk's personality, the intellectual, rational man. McCoy functions to show and voice his emotional and moral center. With the two of them as external characters, the writers could show the dual nature of Kirk's personality.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:38 PM (wzUl9)

I thought it was interesting how they broke up the traits of trek TOS cast and redistributed it in TNG. Riker got kirk's woman chaser side, Worf got Kirk's blow it out of the sky warrior side. Data got spock's technical side, and picard got spock's completely fucking boring diplomatic side. Troy was Rand's tits on the bridge, and troy got spock's empathic side.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 09:46 PM (snZF9)

170 I'm feeling a wee bit left out here.
Posted by: Scotty at March 25, 2026

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And that's a shame. The only times we got to see you thinking about something other than the ship and its engines were the two stories where you were crazy about a younger woman, and in both cases some alien entity won her over or commandeered her body. Oh, and the adventure where you were accused of being a knife murderer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 09:47 PM (wzUl9)

171 I'm feeling a wee bit left out here.
Posted by: Scotty

The guys that keep the world running always have been. Go read Kipling's "The Sons Of Martha."

https://is.gd/dHejo5

Posted by: mikeski at March 25, 2026 09:48 PM (VHUov)

172 IIRC there was a science fiction fanzine back in the 70's called "Star Log" or something similar. It grew into a teen magazine for SF nerds. I recall an article in it from one of the writers of TOS saying something to the effect that Kirk and McCoy met each other prior to joining Star Fleet.

Don't recall the circumstances, but both were sort of shit out of luck and had nowhere else to turn. Not sure if that ever translated to an episode or movie. But I do remember the "back story" to the two of them. Might have been some writer's idea that never made it into the series or movies... *shrugs*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 09:50 PM (AkEZC)

173 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 25, 2026 09:46 PM (snZF9)

And it did not work, character wise i think. Data was the most functional character at the outset, the others were bland as dish water and not really characters. I am not sure they ever really fixed that. TOO ensemble.

With the TOS cast, you wanted to know more about them. You hungered for every nugget that got dropped in the story. They never HAD to do a fucking 'Datas day' episode where you focused on a specific character. When they did that in TNG I could not fucking care.

But the thing with story telling is often when the viewer imagines is better than any writer can come up with. So an air of mystery works really well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2026 09:53 PM (zZu0s)

174 Deforest Kelley will be forever remembered for Night of the Lepus.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 25, 2026 09:55 PM (D4x+R)

175 Don't recall the circumstances, but both were sort of shit out of luck and had nowhere else to turn. Not sure if that ever translated to an episode or movie. But I do remember the "back story" to the two of them. Might have been some writer's idea that never made it into the series or movies... *shrugs*
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 25, 2026 09:50 PM (AkEZC)
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Roddenberry wrote a book about Star Trek and it had a character biography followed by actor biography, which is pretty canonical.

I did not like TNG, though I watched it because of how broadcast TV worked at the time. I recall thinking the endings sucked - the setup was there, but the payoff always blew chunks.

I lost any interest in the franchise after that, I guess now one would call me a TOS purist, but whatever. That being said, I was all-in on Babylon 5, which had held up really, really well for a 90s show. Lots of Trek alums 'crossed over' and Walter Koenig's Bester is one of the best villains of all time.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 25, 2026 09:55 PM (ZOv7s)

176 DeForest Kelly visited my very humble suburban neighborhood in the late 60s. I think his cousin and her husband were the only childless couple on our block About 15 of us stood across the street hoping to get an invite in We got a wave instead but went away happy!

Posted by: LASue at March 25, 2026 09:55 PM (lCppi)

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Re: DeForest Kelley, I've seen some of his old guest shots on TV Westerns. He played a particularly nasty villain on a Trackdown w/ Robert Culp, for example.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

He played a good western fast-draw gunslinger.
Posted by: Joemarine

He played a DOCTOR in a Lone Ranger episode oddly enough titled "Death In the Forest"

www.imdb.com/title/tt0635355

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 25, 2026 09:58 PM (Cqx++)

178 Jonathan Frakes did a turn in "North and South" as the loser older brother of the Hazard family, and I've always thought of him as playing "wussy Riker."

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 25, 2026 09:59 PM (ZOv7s)

179 And it did not work, character wise i think. Data was the most functional character at the outset, the others were bland as dish water and not really characters. I am not sure they ever really fixed that. TOO ensemble. . . .

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2026

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I dunno. I have a strong admiration for Riker. More than once we saw Frakes, the actor, show us what Riker was feeling without saying a word, strong and admirable attitudes. His early remark to Data, when the latter says he would give up all he was to become human, "Hello, Pinocchio," was a classic ST line.

And Picard got dramatic storylines without having fight scenes, usually anyway. He was the interstellar Julius Caesar to Kirk's Alexander the Great.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 10:00 PM (wzUl9)

180 Noodus ONT

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 10:01 PM (wzUl9)

181 ONT is nood.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 25, 2026 10:02 PM (zZu0s)

182 damn, I need 2 b humping Mrs E rather than posting here

Posted by: epador at March 25, 2026 11:35 PM (v9L1U)

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