Being from Massachusetts, I cannot mention this guy without thinking “who put the bomp… in the bomp… shabomp… shabomp…“
Nor can I forget “Bilbo Baggins.”
And then I think of Star Trek. This is no disrespect to one of the greatest shows of all time. All three of these things are never far from my conscience.
Nimoy was on “Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me” this weekend, and had an amusing little anecdote about the Presidential election. The group were trading stories about encounters at Sci-Fi conventions, when Mr. Nimoy busts out this little chestnut:
Well, we [the Star Trek franchise] appeal to a wide spectrum of an audience, and as a matter of fact about a year and a half ago I was at a political event, and one of our current campaigners for President of the United States saw me as he approached the podium, and he gave me the vulcan signal. It was not John McCain.
Taylor, feel free to use that in your next installment of “Vote Better.”
I think of the introductions to the discovered technologies in Sid Meir’s Civilization III.
Comment by Jared — 22 September 2008 @ 4:47 pm |
You’ve learned Ceremonial Burial!
I always gunned for Engineering. Gotta love the Leonardo da Vinci’s Workshop Wonder.
Comment by Andy — 22 September 2008 @ 6:40 pm |
[...] 2) Hat tip (or is that a scali cap?) to Andy ‘on the Road’ Sellars for drawing our attention to Barack Obama’s continued ability to be a pop culture renaissance man. Turns out the basketball-playing, Jay-Z-referencing, The-Wire-and-Mad-Men-watching candidate can also bust out the Vulcan ‘live long and prosper’ hand gesture to no less than Leonard Nimoy. Read more about Obama’s monopoly on pop-cultural literacy here. [...]
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[...] hometown Fitchburg, its reference to the Spock endorsement story (see my post on that subject here), and for general Hodgman awesomeness. [...]
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