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Buffalo Head '75
04-02-2008, 08:16 PM
What is the dorkiest thing that you do?

Mine has to be my basketball card collection that goes back to 1982. You buy 10 packs a week since 1982. Well, you can only imagine how much room that takes up... and people say that people with OCD like to hoard useless stuff.

I don't buy it. oh yeah, and they have to be Topps brand cards. No fleer or donruss or anything like that (even though I have those too). And the players have to be sorted by players. Except the Celtics. They are set in the back. And the player has to be labelled as Celtic to get in that elite group.

so what is the dorkiest thing that you do?

PEACE FROG
04-02-2008, 08:20 PM
I am a Moderator on Happy Hippie.com
About 10 years ago I sang karaoke at a bar. That was dorky
When I was a boy I did a ventriloquism act. I was real good, but....
Oh I know, when I was a kid, like 6th grade, I used to lip sync to pop song records using an ice cream scoop as a mic. Thats dorky...what do I win?

Buffalo Head '75
04-02-2008, 08:34 PM
I am a Moderator on Happy Hippie.comthat can't be the dorkiest thing that you do. it is dorky... but it isn't THAT dorky.

Plus, when you flash that membership card I bet you need a stick to beat away the throngs of women.

PEACE FROG
04-02-2008, 08:43 PM
Oh no dude I got it. This last year I was in two different productions performing interpretive dance. All the other dancers looked like freaking Osmonds, I.... have you seen my picture? I was the "dorky" fly in the ointment.

Buffalo Head '75
04-02-2008, 08:49 PM
Oh no dude I got it. This last year I was in two different productions performing interpretive dance. All the other dancers looked like freaking Osmonds, I.... have you seen my picture? I was the "dorky" fly in the ointment.now THAT qualifies. A biker dude doing interpretive dance.

that oughtta wake them up!

NCW_Woodnymph
04-02-2008, 09:36 PM
Oh no dude I got it. This last year I was in two different productions performing interpretive dance. All the other dancers looked like freaking Osmonds, I.... have you seen my picture? I was the "dorky" fly in the ointment.

Do you have video? I would totally pay to see that! :D

I think the dorkiest thing I do is crochet.
In ninth grade I was in a school musical and I was a choir nerd all through high school. I'm pretty proud of that though. Good times. *sigh* :D

Buffalo Head '75
04-03-2008, 05:40 AM
Do you have video? I would totally pay to see that! :D

I think the dorkiest thing I do is crochet.
In ninth grade I was in a school musical and I was a choir nerd all through high school. I'm pretty proud of that though. Good times. *sigh* :D
I am not sure crochet counts because you are into homesteading and that seems to be a necessary evil to live out on the range as you do.

The choir thing.... yeah that qualifies as dorky. No one has out-dorked my basketball collection.... although P. Frog's interpretive dance as a biker dude is a pretty good attempt. The thing is it is also damn funny and enlightening to show that anybody can do anything.

so I still have the dork award at this point.

LIBRA
04-03-2008, 07:56 AM
Hmmm. Lets see, I collect rocks from everywhere I go. I dance and sing in my car and never care who is looking, rock on sista! I dance around at home too and use anything as a microphone, kris used to play along but now he just thinks his mom is wacked.

Im an obsessive composter, If someone throws away anything that should have gone in the compost bucket I pick threw the garbage and find it,lol

I still have all of the new kids on the block trading cards and buttons.< oh ya thats dorky.

Brown is my fav color??? The kids all tell me thats pretty dorky.

My socks never match, ever. I just dont care, unless they are cool or comfy. I have tons and tons of funky socks, my mom gets me them for christmas its tradition.
I love decoupage Ive done it to everything I can, dressers, shelves, boxes, jars, wooden bowls, you name it I decoupage it.

I cant think of anything else I consider dorky. I love me some dorkyness :D

Buffalo Head '75
04-03-2008, 08:16 AM
brown is my favorite color and I also play american idol in the car.

The New Kids on the Block thing is OFFICIALLY the dorkiest thing yet! :)

That definitely takes the cake and will be tough to beat.

what is decoupage?

Earth_Momma_06
04-03-2008, 03:01 PM
Dorkiest thing I do....
Randomly dance around the house
play tiger with my 18 month old son (crawling around and growling yeah)
do the cookie monster voice when I give him cookies
I have skipped before in public
I randomly still listen to Spice Girls and Aqua....

not very dorky but its what I could think of

Buffalo Head '75
04-03-2008, 05:22 PM
Dorkiest thing I do....
Randomly dance around the house
play tiger with my 18 month old son (crawling around and growling yeah)
do the cookie monster voice when I give him cookies
I have skipped before in public
I randomly still listen to Spice Girls and Aqua....

not very dorky but its what I could think of
None of it was dorky until you got to the Spice Girls. The rest was more "freedom of expression". I am not sure what to make of the Spice Girls. But still not as dorky as the current leader, New Kids On The Block. Oh no wait, they are tougher now, NKOTB.

Kinda like KFC, STP, or GAD but all mixed into one.

LIBRA
04-03-2008, 05:37 PM
hey all the greats make a come back,lol NKOTB hangin tough! I wonder what there "new" music will sound like or if they are gonna sing all there old school songs?

Buffalo Head '75
04-03-2008, 05:39 PM
hey all the greats make a come back,lol NKOTB hangin tough! I wonder what there "new" music will sound like or if they are gonna sing all there old school songs?when I splurge for the "good" Celtics seats I sit down by Donnie Wahlberg. Wasn't he one of them? Or the brother of one of them or something like that?

He is quite a character. Nice guy though.

Hippie Staff
04-03-2008, 09:53 PM
Are you kidding me? This thread was meant for me!


Besides the obvious web dorkiness...


1.) I had to hide the fact that I liked sci-fi movies in high school, college, and as a young adult. As a older 30 something parent now, I don't care. Afterall, I have to educate my kid about important things. Standing in the middle of a toy aisle, I have emphathetically tried to explain to my 5 year old daughter the difference between a Star Wars Jedi fighter and a TIE fighter. My daughter agrees with me right then and there, that the 'bad guys' have all the cool looking stuff..Death Star...the AT AT walker...and occassionally I have pointed my finger out the window at butthole drivers and made the 'piu piu' shooting sound. Swear.

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/the_empire_strikes_back/atat.jpg


2.) I have done karaoke, but I blame rum. It was an excellent rendition of B 52s Love Shack though. Bah..I'll never see those people again. ;)



3. ) I collected scratch and sniff stickers as a child. My album had them arranged by color. No one was allowed to scratch my stickers at school as that would totally compromise the smelliness. The stickers had a protective cover over them to seal in the yummy smells, that I would get lost in after school. Once a boy named Byron took my sticker book and scratched my rootbeer sticker so hard, the little eyes on the rootbeer mug were rubbed right off. He also took a huge bite out of my Hello Kitty bubblegum eraser, that I had saved allowance up to buy. He then broke my finger in four square and then laughed about it. He will, of course, rot in hell.


4.) I love science and nature and anything related to learning about it. I have checked out tornado chasing trips (which start now), archaelogy digs, treasure hunting and remote 'elephant rehabilitation' learning camps in Thailand as future family vacation trips. I have been told I'll be going on the tornado chasing one by myself.


5.) I don't collect 'normal?' things. I have a beach sand collection from my travels, and have them labeled and lined up in tiny glass bottles in my living room on a shelf. It's my favorite souvenir. I once paid for black sand in Hawaii, because they said taking sand from that beach would leave me cursed. No need to take chances with the goddess Pele - I paid $10 for a tiny tiny vial.


I collect some fossils. My favorite is a tooth from a Spinosaurus, millions of years old. Sometimes when I get stressed out - I like to look at it. It puts things in perspective for me. Even during the worst day, I have got to admit I'm happy that I didn't have to live w/ one of those.


http://www.futura-sciences.com/galerie_photos/data/575/spinosaurus.jpg

NCW_Woodnymph
04-03-2008, 10:51 PM
Wait a second. If you would be cursed for taking sand then wasn't the person who took the sand you bought cursed?

:hippie:

PEACE FROG
04-03-2008, 11:04 PM
Wait a second. If you would be cursed for taking sand then wasn't the person who took the sand you bought cursed?

:hippie:SHHHH ... thats what makes her dorky.

LIBRA
04-04-2008, 05:26 AM
LOL Ed!!

And Meg your just too cute!!! Everyone of your dorky traits made me smile!!! And I will go tornado chasing with you when your family chickens out!


I have pointed my finger out the window at butthole drivers and made the 'piu piu' shooting sound. Swear.
That had me rolling,lol I can see it,ha ha ha!

I also had a sticker album and I can totally sympathize with you on that. I was the scratcher, if and when the scratchin went down. The strawberry shortcake and friends collection I had were my fav!! I think my mom may still have that album in her cellar,lol they keep everything.

Your sand collection sounds cool and so does the fossil. Ive got some fossils too and other things I "think" were used as tools, bowls. And whole box of arrow heads too.

Rock on with your dorky selves :D

Buffalo Head '75
04-04-2008, 05:53 AM
Meggles has created another category.

We now have dorkiest single act and then overall dorkyness.

Although I have to admit there is nothing dorky about pretending to shoot down opposing driver's with "photon" torpedoes. I do that all the time.

And everyone is right, Meg still purchased the sand and brought it off the island leaving herself and the seller cursed.

I believe it is this curse which sticks her with me as a poster on the HH Forum!

Hippie Staff
04-04-2008, 08:58 AM
Ok here is the *black sand curse loophole!!* The sand 'for sale' at the beach, by toothless grandma, was *supposently* taken from ANOTHER black sand beach,that was privately owned - not from the 'protected & tabu' sand of Pele.

Whatever, you know that grandma took it from in between her toes, and sprinkled in a bottle and waited for a dumb 'Haole' to buy it.

It's ok though, support local biz right? ":)

So I gave you Meg Dorky 1-5. Maybe sometime I will fill you in on 6 - 10. That's right, there's more.

Buffalo Head '75
04-04-2008, 09:25 AM
Meggles,

do the natives believe that "one can own the land." I do not believe so. Remember the Brady Bunch's trip to Hawaii? You will now suffer the same fate.

That land is not private. It is simple being hoarded by someone who has "claimed it" despite having no ownership.

Therefore, the curse is on.

I can name a few more dorky items as well.

I play a board game that statistically simulates basketball games buying new seasons every year.

I collect coffee mugs

I collect small hand carved wooden pirate figures

I play nerf basketball while doing the laundry

Unkle_John
04-04-2008, 05:24 PM
I have you all beat.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/qonos01.jpg

I've been doing this since I was 14.
I've been interviewed by TV stations, newspapers, and I immortalized myself by having a pic of me in my high school yearbook.

And Yes, JuJu does too:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/subgenius_hall.jpg

Buffalo Head '75
04-04-2008, 06:06 PM
yes sir! I believe you are the winner unless someone can top that... but unless they are a carney, collect belly button lint or... well I can't think of it. I think you are the winner.

Although, I often camp with the American Revolutionary reenacters so .....

Hippie Staff
04-04-2008, 06:36 PM
John - if you tell them the name of the ale you are drinking in that picture in Klingon, then yah..you win.


That's awesome lol

PEACE FROG
04-04-2008, 08:03 PM
I've been just sitting here, I can't talk, wow dude...no more calls I believe we have a winner. ;) Next Generation is the best!!!! Really! I always went for the dogfight sequences, especially if a saucer separation was involved. Anyways your a dork. But you still have seen me do "the dance".

LIBRA
04-05-2008, 07:40 AM
Then bring it Ed, lets see this dance,lol

And ding ding ding!!! I knew when John posted he would take the cake!!!

Sweet pic, thats pretty cool!

Unkle_John
04-05-2008, 01:51 PM
John - if you tell them the name of the ale you are drinking in that picture in Klingon, then yah..you win.


That's awesome lol

Blood Wine.

Thanks everyone. I know I'm a dork and I'm proud of it b/c it's what I enjoying doing. If someone can't get over that, then they need to "get a life". (Referencing William Shatner's famous line on SNL). Enjoy what you love to do, who cares if others think it's uncool. It makes you happy, and you should be happy in life.

:24:

BTW, Julie made our ambassador's uniforms.

Gaston
04-05-2008, 09:02 PM
I have you all beat.

Maybe :D

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/gaston/pics/kinser_st_olaf_group_photo_2.jpg

That's me in the middle as a French knight c1362 (with the chicken on my head). Actually, it's a white sun-in-glory like the one on the surcoat, but with feathers on the points ... but that's quibbling.

or...if you prefer, as a 1770's Cherokee

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/gaston/pics/bh_tsalagi_standing.jpg

gogreengirl
04-06-2008, 12:15 AM
[IMG]I can't beat any of that great stuff! Looks great.

My dorky adventure when I was was collecting POG. Does anyone remember them? I use to love them! Maybe everyone is too old to remember (no offence) but yeah I had the glow in the dark ones and the latest cartoon collectables plus the slammer.

Ahhh, how I miss my pog.

LIBRA
04-06-2008, 07:52 AM
ok thats that we gotta change the name of the forum to happy dorkies.com :D


You guys rock!!!

Buffalo Head '75
04-06-2008, 03:53 PM
Maybe :D

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/gaston/pics/kinser_st_olaf_group_photo_2.jpg

That's me in the middle as a French knight c1362 (with the chicken on my head). Actually, it's a white sun-in-glory like the one on the surcoat, but with feathers on the points ... but that's quibbling.

or...if you prefer, as a 1770's Cherokee

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/gaston/pics/bh_tsalagi_standing.jpg
this is priceless! You have a bit of a headshrinker look to you. You are the current leader!

This forum is great. It's awesome to see so many people with such diverse interests all getting along.

I agree with Unkle John. Who cares what people think about what makes you happy.

I am feeling pretty good about that basketball card collection though. LOL, picked up an original Bill Russell this weekend. Only set me back $75. ugh!

angymnast247
04-07-2008, 12:30 PM
haha thats great! I definately cant beat any of that as far as dorkieness.

i do...
watch the twilight zone alot

go to academic lectures because i want to

carry small colorful objects with me "just in case" (like bouncy balls and stuff)

draw with sidewalk chalk all over campus at 7am when nobody else is up. (only a few people have caught on that it was me hehe)

this thread is great, btw

Buffalo Head '75
04-07-2008, 01:15 PM
carry small colorful objects with me "just in case" (like bouncy balls and stuff)

this thread is great, btw
in case of what? I have been trying to figure this out for about half an hour.

... and while you may be a little ecletic, ok definitely eclectic, I don't see this as dorky.

and I am glad you are enjoying this thread. Collect 5,000 and make yourself a sweater.

Earth_Momma_06
04-07-2008, 03:46 PM
Wow I honestly feel like a dork for not being as dorky lol ....
but I love you guys
by the way my first step dad named me after Stefania Septow Dilisnya from Ravenloft.

o yeah dorky thing I remembered I am such a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan I named my son Xander.... thought about Williow for a girl...

NCW_Woodnymph
04-07-2008, 04:05 PM
I love you guys! :D I always know where to go when I need a good laugh.

Unkle John, that picture rocks! I am a shameless Trekkie but not nearly that creative.

I think dorkyness is completely subjective because I forgot about what I have been told is my dorkiest hobby. I'm a level 54 Night Elf druid. :D No cool outfits though. They wouldn't look as good as they do on my elf anyway. :D

:hippie:

Buffalo Head '75
04-07-2008, 04:59 PM
I love you guys! :D I always know where to go when I need a good laugh.

Unkle John, that picture rocks! I am a shameless Trekkie but not nearly that creative.

I think dorkyness is completely subjective because I forgot about what I have been told is my dorkiest hobby. I'm a level 54 Night Elf druid. :D No cool outfits though. They wouldn't look as good as they do on my elf anyway. :D

:hippie:
Level 54?????

How did you get to level 54? That is insane. Level 54? I can't even fathom that.

Level 54? With what a magic sword +6 and a cloak of invisibility.

oh man, I wasted away way too much time in high school.

PEACE FROG
04-08-2008, 09:34 AM
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/11/bushputin191106_502x700.jpg

angymnast247
04-08-2008, 06:32 PM
in case of what? I have been trying to figure this out for about half an hour.

just in case i get board or need to do something, i guess. or just in case they come in handy to other people.

well i dont know what constitutes a "dork" per say, i was thinking that was pretty subjective :o
o well

i guess i am just weird...its ok tho

Buffalo Head '75
04-09-2008, 06:19 AM
just in case i get board or need to do something, i guess. or just in case they come in handy to other people.

well i dont know what constitutes a "dork" per say, i was thinking that was pretty subjective :o
o well

i guess i am just weird...its ok thoI didn't think you were weird at all. I thought all your comments made sense. You need to dress up as a star trek character or something if you want a dork tag! :)

StellaBlue
04-09-2008, 06:24 AM
I still own my Milli Vanilli album...and my Michael Jackson Thriller button I used to wear on my jean jacket. I say both of these things qualify as cool, but my husband says dorky...

Buffalo Head '75
04-09-2008, 06:54 AM
I still own my Milli Vanilli album...and my Michael Jackson Thriller button I used to wear on my jean jacket. I say both of these things qualify as cool, but my husband says dorky...your husband is a wise man. :)

welcome to the Dork club!

StellaBlue
04-09-2008, 10:05 AM
I forgot one other thing...I'm addicted to Guitar Hero III. Seriously addicted.

Buffalo Head '75
04-12-2008, 04:10 PM
I forgot one other thing...I'm addicted to Guitar Hero III. Seriously addicted.
that is hinting of dorky but I am not sure it qualifies. That seems like a reasonable enough game to play.

StellaBlue
04-12-2008, 05:18 PM
that is hinting of dorky but I am not sure it qualifies. That seems like a reasonable enough game to play.

Have you played? It's seriously fun. And I'm good at it, which makes it all the more fun. Except now I am deluded into thinking I can actually play guitar...a real one.

PEACE FROG
04-13-2008, 08:31 PM
My son got one for Christmas, He's really good at it.

Gaston
04-13-2008, 11:37 PM
One of the guys in our group took a picture of me as a retired Austrian artillery officer:

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/gaston/pics/BobH1.jpg

and the picture of me as a Cherokee

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/gaston/pics/bh_tsalagi_standing.jpg

and Photoshopped the two together to get this:

http://home.armourarchive.org/members/gaston/pics/PirateBob3.jpg

I'm not sure who me&me are supposed to be, best guess is Cap'n Ahab and Queequeg on shore leave. Doesn't look like much of a place for a whale hunt, though.

Unkle_John
04-14-2008, 09:14 AM
Hey that's a good job you've done there matey!

Now swab the poop deck you scally-wag!

Dhaerivus_Ravenshadow
06-10-2008, 07:02 PM
Wow I honestly feel like a dork for not being as dorky lol ....
but I love you guys
by the way my first step dad named me after Stefania Septow Dilisnya from Ravenloft.

o yeah dorky thing I remembered I am such a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan I named my son Xander.... thought about Williow for a girl...

Well, since I'm the one who named our little Earth Momma, I suppose I should put forth my dorkdom.
BEHOLD!
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa14/jkoti1013/spades.jpg

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa14/jkoti1013/jamie017.jpg

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa14/jkoti1013/jamie035.jpg
(since this doesn't look all that dorky, that's me and Gary Gygax who created Dungeons & Dragons)

Unfortunately I have no pics in my Starfleet uniform or my brown robe. Maybe later.

Hippie Staff
06-10-2008, 07:09 PM
Dhaerivus_Ravenshadow

Wow - what took you so long to get here? !

Welcome home. :D

:hippie:

Dhaerivus_Ravenshadow
06-10-2008, 07:22 PM
"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to". lol

Thank you for your kind welcome. I look forward to much stimulating conversation.

Namaste
:cheers:

PEACE FROG
06-11-2008, 07:27 AM
Wow!!! Welcome sir. Do you own all your own costumes? Quite impressive. Looking forward to chatting with you.
Namaste

Unkle_John
06-11-2008, 10:39 AM
So a Sand trooper, an archaeologist, and a pirate walk in to this bar....

Say are you in StarFleet?
Looking to unleash your Klingon side?
Go back a few pages and check me out.

Dhaerivus_Ravenshadow
06-11-2008, 02:43 PM
Yes, all my costumes are my own. Most are continually evolving (I need a leather strap for my Indy bag and a better whip). I also have a really nice brown robe with gold trim, but haven't been photographed in it yet.

I have a Voyager era Trek shirt with com badge and rank pips that I just wear with black dress pants and a grey undershirt (as opposed to the polyester dickie that came with it), but would like to find a something with a tighter collar.

I only had the opportunity to go to some big conventions last summer because the company I worked for was a dealer and I was working. It was great, but I seldom can afford to go just for fun (and I have no-one to go with). So, I'm not involved in any legitimate organizations like Starfleet or the 501st.

I have rosacea, so makeup and facial prosthetics don't agree with me. Besides, I'd be one scrawny Klingon, lol.

Funny enough, when my mother saw me in Starfleet uniform for the first time (of course she had no idea it was a costume), she just said "Oh! Now, that's a nice outfit".

There are more pics of GenCon and Dragon*Con on Myspace (which should have a link in my profile here).

I'm also open to any hints/tips/tricks from fellow costumers or afficianados here.

Also, off topic, but: How do I go about getting a personal avatar pic uploaded?

Edit, just thought I'd throw this in.
http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa14/jkoti1013/DSCN0880.jpg

Unkle_John
06-11-2008, 06:21 PM
Great pic Raven, say... I might know him.

You could always be a "Human Fusion" Klingon (as seen in The Old Series "TOS"). Though we don't talk about them much, if they serve the empire well, then they are honorable.

...I know.. I'm a d-o-r-k.

PS: contact Meg (Hippie_Staff) about your avatar.

Christine
07-26-2008, 11:38 PM
I don't have a sci-fi obsession, but I do have a disney one.
Particularily the princesses.
I should post videos of my voice imitations xD

My Snow White needs work, but the others are pretty spiffy.

I also have a stuffed animal collection on my bed over 30 animals strong (Including a giant hamster and Rudolph), pooh bear window decals, and a stack of old grimms fairytale picture books.

I'm a child-dork xD

shaggy
07-27-2008, 10:43 AM
Howdy Raven,

Unkle John wrote: "You could always be a "Human Fusion" Klingon (as seen in The Old Series "TOS"). Though we don't talk about them much, if they serve the empire well, then they are honorable."

Actually, I love them old dirty greenish-brown skinned Original Series Klingons. When Star Trek first aired in 1966, I was 18 years old. So, this is the Star Trek I was weaned on. I have the entire Original Series of Star Trek on video and still watch them (does this classify me as a nerd?). They may not have had the great special effects and big budget that Next Gen. had, but they were FUN. Harry Mudd, the Space Hippies (I once partied with Charles Napier who played the hippie Adam), giant White Rabbits, Rock Creatures, and all the coolness of that period - groovy!

Unkle John mentioned serving The Empire. The Empire is a Klingon based sci-fi club that does have a special place for Aliens called the IXL - Imperial Xeno-Legion - which is a mercenery unit like the French Foreign Legion. You could even be a Humanoid character seen on Star Trek. Unkle John can supply you with more details.

Pax,
Shaggy

Unkle_John
07-28-2008, 10:25 AM
Shag, you don't happen to recognize that guy with Pasadena Jones up above your post do you?
I can one-up on my nerdness.. you can now watch the original Star Trek series on CBS.com.

Watch Classic Star Trek Online for Free! (http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/)

Adam Blanchard
07-28-2008, 11:09 AM
ok so.. I like star trek, tng, ds9, and even voyager... but it is starting to get like the final fantasy games. 1 or 2 is cool, maybe a small series..... but enough is enough!!! lmao :ufo::hippie:

NCW_Woodnymph
07-28-2008, 12:37 PM
Howdy Raven,

Unkle John wrote: "You could always be a "Human Fusion" Klingon (as seen in The Old Series "TOS"). Though we don't talk about them much, if they serve the empire well, then they are honorable."

Actually, I love them old dirty greenish-brown skinned Original Series Klingons. When Star Trek first aired in 1966, I was 18 years old. So, this is the Star Trek I was weaned on. I have the entire Original Series of Star Trek on video and still watch them (does this classify me as a nerd?). They may not have had the great special effects and big budget that Next Gen. had, but they were FUN. Harry Mudd, the Space Hippies (I once partied with Charles Napier who played the hippie Adam), giant White Rabbits, Rock Creatures, and all the coolness of that period - groovy!

Unkle John mentioned serving The Empire. The Empire is a Klingon based sci-fi club that does have a special place for Aliens called the IXL - Imperial Xeno-Legion - which is a mercenery unit like the French Foreign Legion. You could even be a Humanoid character seen on Star Trek. Unkle John can supply you with more details.

Pax,
Shaggy

Which episode had hippies in it? I will have to find that and watch it.:hippie:

Unkle_John
07-28-2008, 02:59 PM
The Way to Eden (http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/video/video.php?cid=649548575&pid=OeOOXxBlsN_89_fAyYESqFXefGyQIc4o&play=true)

Season 3: Ep. 20

If the link doesn't work, you can go to CBS.com and click on "shows" at the top.
I'm reading the Star Trek novel Errand of Fury, in it Starfleet sends orders to the Enterprise on a rescue mission to save the members of the Anti-Federation League. They crossed over the neutral zone into Klingon territory to show their support for the alien race. The Klingons don't want them and hold them as hostages. When they are rescued, many of them spit on the StarFleet officers who rescue them and treat them like dirt. The writer really made these people to be what the conservative radicals try to paint neo-hippies of today, Anti-American and Pro-Islamic extremists. WE all know that isn't true. But the characters in the book are like that and it's annoying to me.

shaggy
07-28-2008, 03:54 PM
Howdy,

"NCW_Woodnymph" asked about the space hippies Star Trek episode, and Unkle John (quick at the draw as usual) posted that it was The Way To Eden. Yep, that be the one! I do love that episode because I can relate to the sentiments about the man-made atmosphere and environments being like poison to my system. Fortunately, my area of the world (Akron, OH) has a great park system - and I take advantage of it whenever I can.

Unkle John asked if I recognized the Klingon posed with Pasadena Jones. He does look familiar - perhaps one of the Eastern Fleet members? Looks like someone I saw in Chattanooga, Tenn. at Galacticon. However, to be perfectly honest, I notice the female Klin more than I do the males (must be the clevage showcasing uniforms).

Shaggy

Unkle_John
07-29-2008, 09:43 AM
....to be perfectly honest, I notice the female Klin more than I do the males (must be the clevage showcasing uniforms).

Pep 'ej Chev!

shaggy
07-29-2008, 04:36 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by shaggy
....to be perfectly honest, I notice the female Klin more than I do the males (must be the clevage showcasing uniforms).
Unkle John - "Pep 'ej Chev!"

Response fom Shaggy - "HIja' - tIn HIchDu'!"

This should prove both Unkle John and I as real dorks!

Shaggy

shaggy
07-29-2008, 04:49 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by shaggy
....to be perfectly honest, I notice the female Klin more than I do the males (must be the clevage showcasing uniforms).
Unkle John - "Pep 'ej Chev!"

Response fom Shaggy - "HIja' - tIn HIchDu'!"

This should prove both Unkle John and I as real dorks!

Shaggy

Gaston
02-07-2009, 04:44 PM
This may be the ultimate Trekkie Dorkiness. Imagine how many times you'd have to watch each and every episode to remember where to find all the clips that have been used to produce: Star Trek Camelot! or is it Monty Trek? Star Python? Anyway ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc

NCW_Woodnymph
02-08-2009, 11:38 AM
That is awesome on so many levels!:cheers:

Adam Blanchard
02-08-2009, 02:19 PM
Now would be a good time to not mention that I have a darth vader helmet with voice changer and that I want a boboa fett and a clone trooper helmet.


On a freakier note if you guys haven't seen Repo! The Genetic Opera you are missing out.. walmart has it for like $20 and it is deffinately worth it. After I saw it I had to get the soundtrack and now really want to see it live as a play.

Unkle_John
03-30-2009, 02:45 PM
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/Sci-Fi/k7barunklekahn.jpg


http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/Sci-Fi/boarding01.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/Sci-Fi/boarding02.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/Sci-Fi/seduction01.jpg
The seduction of Spock

Unkle_John
03-30-2009, 02:46 PM
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/Sci-Fi/wine_cellar_1.jpg
Sneaking a bottle of bloodwine.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/Sci-Fi/VasquezRocks1.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y294/unklejohn/Sci-Fi/hut01.jpg
Klingon postcard.

Hippie Staff
03-30-2009, 03:29 PM
John!!!!!!!!!!! These picts rule on so many levels. Brian is pretty jealous of your mad photoshop skillz. :)

The postcard LOL - you need to sell those.

LIBRA
03-30-2009, 03:51 PM
John, these are awesome!!!!!!!!!!! Wow!!!

So cool and so dorky :D

Bet you guys had a blast! Your photoshop skills are pretty impressive!!!

PEACE FROG
03-30-2009, 04:05 PM
Wow!!!! I'm speechless...........um..........ya. You do have the skills my friend. You both look great!!

Unkle_John
03-31-2009, 08:31 AM
Thanks gang, that means alot to me.

King of the dorks.

PEACE FROG
03-31-2009, 09:41 AM
John I just saw a movie called MONGOL. it's the story of Genghis Khan. I think Klingons were fashioned after those guys. once again GOOD JOB!!! And JUJU is beautiful, tell her I said so.

Unkle_John
04-01-2009, 08:22 AM
I sure will!