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LOS ANGELES, California (AP)—James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original “Star Trek” TV series and motion pictures who responded to the command “Beam me up, Scotty,(although it was never said in the series)” died early Wednesday. He was 85.
Doohan died at 5:30 a.m. (1330 GMT) at his Redmond, Washington, home with his wife of 28 years, Wende, at his side, Los Angeles agent and longtime friend Steve Stevens said. The cause of death was pneumonia and Alzheimer’s disease, he said.
The Canadian-born Doohan was enjoying a busy career as a character actor when he auditioned for a role as an engineer in a new space adventure on NBC in 1966. A master of dialects from his early years in radio, he tried seven different accents.
“The producers asked me which one I preferred,” Doohan recalled 30 years later. “I believed the Scot voice was the most commanding. So I told them, ‘If this character is going to be an engineer, you’d better make him a Scotsman.’ “
The series, which starred William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as the enigmatic Mr. Spock, attracted an enthusiastic following of science fiction fans, especially among teenagers and children, but not enough ratings power. NBC canceled it after three seasons.
When the series ended in 1969, Doohan found himself typecast as Montgomery Scott, the canny engineer with a burr in his voice. In 1973, he complained to his dentist, who advised him: “Jimmy, you’re going to be Scotty long after you’re dead. If I were you, I’d go with the flow.”
“I took his advice,” said Doohan, “and since then everything’s been just lovely."
From Doohan’s Biography: You may have never noticed, watching the Original Series and the movies, that Mr. Scott has a physical handicap — he’s missing the middle finger of his right hand. That’s because the actor kept it very well hidden. (Watch the shows again carefully — Scotty is almost always clenching his right hand, or hiding it behind a console — but if you know to look, the missing digit is occasionally apparent.) That injury occurred on D-Day. Lt. Doohan successfully led his Canadian troop onto the beach and pushed inland to establish the best possible gun position (along the way Doohan shot two German snipers, never knowing whether he killed them). A field was secured and command posts were established, but not all Germans between the beach and their position had been captured. That night about 11:30, Doohan and another officer were walking between command posts when machine gun fire broke out. Doohan was hit; he fell into a shell hole, looked at his hand and saw blood. Three bullets struck the one finger. Never losing consciousness, he actually walked to the regimental aid post, unaware he also took four bullets in the leg.(You will be missed man rest in peace.)
There was an eighth bullet, and it was nothing less than a miracle that he’s still with us today. It hit his chest, four inches from his heart. But it ricocheted off the sterling silver cigarette case in his pocket, the one his brother had given him for being best man at his wedding. It’s like a trite plot twist, he acknowledges — his brother saved his life from thousands of miles away. Jimmy pushed the dent out of the cigarette case and continued using it until he quit smoking years later. He stayed in the military, learned to fly and came to be known as the “craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Forces.”
Well, back in Canada after the war, Jimmy never gave thought to a career in acting until one night around Christmas of 1945, he took a break from his VA school studies and turned on the radio. “And I heard the worst radio drama I had ever heard. Couldn’t believe how terrible it was,” he said. With no training whatsoever, he was sure he could do better. So he found some Shakespeare and other reading material and marched into the local radio station to say, “I want to make a recording.”
That “tryout” eventually led to a scholarship at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he trained under famed acting coach Sanford Meisner. “He turned out to be one of the greatest drama teachers in the world,” Jimmy would say years later. He then knew he had a career, and he was soon working in the fledgling medium of television.
copied from: www.nicedoggie.net/
a fine example of the wonderful and tolerant "Religion of Peace (My arse)" the values of which we must never, ever question lest we be branded ignorant, racist, hateful zeophobic infidel kifir bigots.
BOMBAY(or as they renamed it Mumbai) -- Hard-line Islamic clerics in a northern Indian village have declared that a woman's 10-year-old marriage was nullified when her father-in-law raped her -- and ordered the mother of five to marry the rapist.
The fatwa, or religious edict, was issued by Darool Uloom Deoband(try saying that after a few beers at the local), South Asia's most powerful Islamic theological school known for promoting a radical brand of Islam that is said to have inspired the Taliban in Afghanistan.
If those are the rules, then we can certainly live with being a bigot.
Although the All India Muslim Personal Law Board supported the fatwa, the All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board decried it and asked Mrs. Ilahi and her husband not to separate.
We weren't aware that muslim women were allowed to do anything other than serve their husbands, but good for them. Even if speaking out means that the tolerant brand of Islam will have them beaten etc.
"The fatwa goes against the light of Koran. No tenet of Koran can justify the injustice done to an innocent victim. Imrana should never be punished for no fault of hers. The victim has every right to continue with her marriage and live with her husband," said Shaista Amber, president of women's law board.
"The Islamic clerics have failed to differentiate between sex by consent and rape by force. The ruling was against the spirit and essence of Islam, which gives equal rights to women."
Could you run that last graf by us one more time, Ms. Amber? We're afraid that trying not to choke on our food kept us from understanding it fully. This must be the mythical koran v. 2.0 that we've heard of, right? Any chance that you could distribute a few copies to, say, the entire fucking rest of the muslim world?
Javed Akhtar, a noted Muslim poet, said: "Islam teaches compassion, justice, equality and a fair deal for women. The fatwa, on the other hand, appears to treat women as mere commodities."
Mr. Akhtar seems to have a copy as well. It's a great pity that it isn't the one used by imams.
Savages and barbarians to a goat fucking man...
Oh and talking of men, thats REAL FUCKING MEN WHO CLANK AS THEY WALK DUE HAVING GONADS OF FUCKING STEEL the first ever moon landing took placeon this day. And I will add that we need to get back there and build big missile bases aimed at Ragheadistan, and yes readers I will go if NASA offers me a place and I will use my STEEL GONADS AS FUCKING BRAKES ON THE WAY DOWN SHOULD ANYTHING GO WRONG DURING THE LANDING.
(This guy looks like a howler money, just look at that expression... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO etc whilst swinging through the trees... sorry that was a bit far and if any howler moneys are reading this I give them a full unreserved apology!)
OK HERE IS THE BOTTOM LINE YOU RAGS, YOUR EITHER ON OUR SIDE AND FOR THE FREE DEMOCRATIC WEST, OR FUCK OFF NOW BACK TO BONGO BONGO LAND(copyright Alan Clark).
Imam Ibrahim Mogra(yes again say that after a few beers at the local tavern) said that, as Muslims, they felt the “pain and suffering of our brothers and sisters around the globe every day”. The war had been a “successful recruitment sergeant for people who wish to preach hatred for our country and our Government”.
Sir Iqbal Sacranie(try saying that after a beer or nine), the secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain, condemned the bombings as an “act of criminality” but said the leaders had made clear that Mr Blair could not “simply shun the issue of foreign policy”.
Radical Muslims who did not take part in the talks said they would not be silenced by warnings of new legislation making it a crime to glorify or condone terrorism.
Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed(again try that after a new Newcastle Brown Ales) said that support for America over Afghanistan and Iraq and the re-election of Mr Blair had all contributed to the attacks. I blame the British Government, the British public and the Muslim community in the UK because they failed to make the extra effort to put an end to the cycle of bloodshed which started before 9/11 and on July 7 was devastating for everybody,” he told the Evening Standard.
Anjem Choudary(thats an easy one, you can say that whilst on shandy), the British leader of the militant Islamist group al-Muhajiroun, said that Muslim leaders should not meet Mr Blair for talks while Muslims were being “murdered” in Iraq. Speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme, he declined to condemn the London bombings, which killed 56 people, and said there was “a very real possibility” of a repetition. “The British Government wants to show that they are on the side of justice and of truth, whereas in reality the real terrorists are the British regime, and even the British police, who have tried to divide the Muslim community into moderates and extremists, whereas this classification doesn’t exist in Islam."
Yes only last night I saw some rag scholar banging on about how the suicide bombing were evil, ok agree with him on that-- then he started about how bad this country was and how he people were repressed(what???) and so on and so fucking forth. Simple answer and I did it with my last job, IF YOUR NOT HAPPY FUCK OFF. Easy as that, want to life in a clipheate then off you go mate. Remember the old phrase that when in Rome do as the Romans do, and best not piss us Romans off else you shall be the new Cathage....
and from northeast Intelligence Network:
Mohammed Atta’s Father Praises London Bombings
20 July 2005: Mohamed el-Amir, (not pictured at left as I think he is ugly and dont want that INFIDEL clogging up my BLOG), father of 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta(wonder what Islam says about the wearing of rubbers and if its allowed why did he not wear one?, praised the July 7, 2005 terror attacks in London and said many more would follow.
In an interview with CNN, Mohamed el-Amir said he would "like to see more attacks like the July 7 bombings" of three London subway trains and a bus that killed 52 people, plus the four bombers. He added that the attacks in the United States and London were "the beginning of what would be a 50-year religious war, in which there would be many more fighters like his son." Mohamed el-Amir added that terror cells around the world were a "nuclear bomb that has now been activated and is ticking," and called any Muslim who apologized or condemned such attacks as traitors to their religion.
According to CNN, Mohamed el-Amir passionately vowed that he would do anything within his power to encourage more attacks, and asked CNN for $5,000 in order to allow them to tape another interview. He stated that the money would be donated to someone to carry out another terror attack.
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