... cup of tea with the guy especially after trying to bamboozle me with some silly gongfu performance which permeates the whole documentary. I feel better now. No I dont. All the extras in this documentary comes across as snobs except the Chinese who are just plain dumb shits when it comes to tea like using pesticides when they could use worm poop. I assume that was James Norwood Pratt dressed and acting like an evangelical preacher. To ...

...-fi before Trek, loved the original series, and call myself a Trekker. If you'd just come out and admit you were wrong to call Trekkers snobs, this would be over Mama. Don't you see that you're the snob thinging that you're somehow better than the rest of us fans that like a different nickname? -- "When you win, nothing hurts".... Joe ...

"George Peatty" "JKconey" wrote: Yes yes yes... I answered that question a long long time ago here Mama. It's your belief that Trekkers are snobs, and came from TNG that's a bit insane. I'm at least as old as you, an original fan from the 60's, but both my wife and I prefer the name "Trekker". Are you a bigger or better fan than we are? I doubt it. No one ever said either name was not cool... except you. ...

On Sun, 7 Sep 2008 21:20:01 -0400, "JKconey" <spam@aol.com> wrote: Yes yes yes... I answered that question a long long time ago here Mama. It's your belief that Trekkers are snobs, and came from TNG that's a bit insane. I'm at least as old as you, an original fan from the 60's, but both my wife and I prefer the name "Trekker". Are you a bigger or better fan than we are? I doubt it. No one ever said either name was not cool... ...

...be good at the same time, and prefer different nicknames? Your demanding we all use your choice or we're snobs is not very "Treklike" is it? I started this thread by pointing out that a guy who dubbed...Trek trivia contest. I rode in an elevator with Uhura! My wife with Sulu! How dare you call me a snob. LOL hee hee -- Multiple root canals; hopped up on multiple pain drugs. It's an explanation, not an excuse!

... be good at the same time, and prefer different nicknames? Your demanding we all use your choice or we're snobs is not very "Treklike" is it? I started this thread by pointing out that a guy who dubbed himself... trivia contest. I rode in an elevator with Uhura! My wife with Sulu! How dare you call me a snob. LOL -- "Money Won is Twice as Sweet as Money Earned" ... Fast Eddie Felson JK www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com

... "Trekkie" when referring to themselves. ? Can somebody please explain that to me? And please, be explicit. Yes yes yes... I answered that question a long long time ago here Mama. It's your belief that Trekkers are snobs, and came from TNG that's a bit insane. I'm at least as old as you, an original fan from the 60's, but both my wife and I prefer the name "Trekker". Are you a bigger or better fan than we are? I ...

... "savvy socialist", Tiggy). Our "savvy socialist" Tiggy here reveals what I have usually found when you scratch a socialist - either someone who wants to drag everyone down to the lowest common denominator....or a snob who loathes the extent to which capitalism has made life easier and more affordable for the vast majority of people. Or, actually, someone who is both, depending on when and which way you scratch him. Contradictions ...

..."ok, whatever," and used both terms interchangably. Things continued this way until Shatner's SNL "Get a Life" sketch. " Trekkers" were insulted by it, "trekkies" rolled in the aisles and said, "hey, I resemble that remark," and since then, "trekkers" think "trekkies" are loonies and "trekkies" think "trekkers" are humorless snobs who could stand to let some looniness into their fandom. Pitch perfect. [*keeper file*]

... rolled in the aisles and Trekkies didn't get it. insulted by it, "trekkies" rolled in the aisles and said, "hey, I resemble that remark," and since then, "trekkers" think "trekkies" are loonies and "trekkies" think "trekkers" are humorless snobs who could stand to let some looniness into their fandom. GeneK -- Multiple root canals; hopped up on multiple pain drugs. It's an explanation, not an excuse!