Spock & Billbo. Very disturbing. [Archive] - Straight Dope Message Board

Tuckerfan

08-11-2002, 06:44 PM

A couple of thoughts:

1.) If they were to stop running the current crop of anti-drug ads and replace it with Leonard Nimoy saying, "Doing drugs makes things like this seem like a good idea." followed by this video, the drug problem in the US would evaporate overnight.

2.) A couple of those chicks were hot, but I don't think that I'd have been able to do 'em, knowing where they've been.

Colibri

08-11-2002, 07:30 PM

I hate you, beagledave

Coldfire

08-11-2002, 07:35 PM

Aaah. To wear shrink-to-fit white jeans again.

lurkernomore

08-11-2002, 07:40 PM

Spock and Billdo?? (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=4204)

I didn't know Billdo swung that way...

oh, Billbo. Sorry...:smack:

Duck Duck Goose

08-11-2002, 08:03 PM

OMG. Three out of five members of the Goose family are currently ROFL.

Bonzo says, "Hey, that's a camp song!" I said, "What?"

He said, "Somebody got up at church camp last year and sang that." Poor Nimoy--his alternate career as a rocker, reduced to "somebody sang that at camp last year".

I see that it was a hit single in 1968. OMG.
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Set/1931/2-sides.html

Thank you, Dave, for a most worthy addition to the "Mom's WEIRD Stuff" Favorites folder.

Note to other people with slow computers: It's a Quicktime movie, which took FOREVER to load completely on my computer, one dribble at a time--but it was WORTH IT.

Oh yes. And sing along.

I said, everybody SING!!

butter pie

08-11-2002, 08:19 PM

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

I have a version of the video, but it's only about ten seconds long and at the end there's a big record that says 'FRODO LIVES'.

You are truly my hero and this is only marginally better than my William Shatner mp3 of Mr. Tambourine Man!

Tuckerfan

08-11-2002, 08:25 PM

Say jin have you heard Shatner's rendition of "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" or Nimoy's "Proud Mary"? "Bilbo" here doesn't do Nimoy's singing voice justice at all! ;)

Muad'Dib

08-11-2002, 08:32 PM

Reason #235 why I hate the 60's and 70's.

TVGuy

08-11-2002, 08:32 PM

I think Mr. Nimoy must have received some bad career advice in his early years. He did a LOT of "music" in the 60's. Who can ever forget "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" from Mr. Spock's Music from Outer Space - why do I know this song you may ask? Well, because I have an aunt who actually OWNED THE ALBUM - and played it endlessly!

Have a look at this fan link (http://www.missioncreep.com/tilt/nimoy.html) and this official fan site link (http://www.nimoy.com/disc.html) for more about his musical wanderings. The scary thing about that second link there is that you can clearly see that he didn't stop singing on records (before going over to spoken word) for YEARS!

Rockford

08-11-2002, 08:58 PM

I shouldn't have kept watching after the first ten seconds...
isn't there a rule about linking to disturbing web sites? :)

butter pie

08-11-2002, 09:04 PM

Yeah, I also have Lucy, and Nimoy singing "If I had a Hammer," and him and Mr. Shatner singing "Put a little love in your heart." I have some other stuff by them too but I'm too lazy to look in the directory to see exactly what it is.

The church of Shatner, or something like that (do a Google search) has a video of him doing "Rocketman." It is truly classic.

I also have some songs by Brent Spiner (Data from TNG), who actually is a very good singer.

Tuckerfan

08-11-2002, 09:15 PM

jin, I want you to know that when I looked at your post thiscaught my eyejinwicked
Member

Registered:
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Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 666And I've found the site you mentioned it's The First Church of Shatnerology (http://www.shatnerology.com/). I've found God ( ;) ), and he wears a toupee, thank you jin, from the bottom of my heart.

rowrrbazzle

08-11-2002, 09:33 PM

Originally posted by jinwicked
I have a version of the video, but it's only about ten seconds long and at the end there's a big record that says 'FRODO LIVES'.I got that version, too, from the same site a few months ago. I've wanted to see the whole version since then.

Dancers with Spock (elf?) ears doing the frug! Priceless! ROFLMAO!

Lissla Lissar

08-11-2002, 11:27 PM

I actually hyperventilated. Quick! How do I save this so I can burn it onto cd and torment my friends?

mblackwell

08-11-2002, 11:40 PM

Originally posted by Lissla Lissar
I actually hyperventilated. Quick! How do I save this so I can burn it onto cd and torment my friends?

Right-click on the link and choose "Save Target/Link as" , or just search your c: drive for *.mov.

Joe_Cool

08-11-2002, 11:42 PM

Ok, I feel obligated to come to Nimoy's defense here. He's really not a bad singer. He has a good voice, just a very dated song selection.

:duck:

butter pie

08-11-2002, 11:53 PM

Oh, he sings very well, IMO, that is what makes it so funny! He sings such silly things in such a talented and serious manner. :)

I still love him though.

I want to lick William Shatner on the cheek before he dies. It's one of my dreams. I bet he tastes like salted peanuts.

p@cific@812

08-12-2002, 12:02 AM

Originally posted by jinwicked
I bet he tastes like salted peanuts.
Dry roasted, or regular?

beagledave, I agree with you that this "ain't right." Pretty freakin' hilarious though. :D

butter pie

08-12-2002, 12:23 AM

Dry roasted!!! :D

I made a present for you, Tuckerfan! (And anyone else that wants it...) I'll leave these up for a day or so before deleting them, since they are kind of hard to find nowadays. Grab 'em quick though because they're hogging my precious disk space!

link removed

My funny Star Trek stuff. :p

Tuckerfan

08-12-2002, 01:22 AM

jin, yer a woman after my own heart! Busy downloading 'em now!

(Oh, and a buddy of mine who's met Shatner says that if you act like a gushing fan boy, he wants nothing to do with you, but if you tell him you love the infamous Star Trek Convention sketch, he'll talk to you.)

Coldfire

08-12-2002, 05:30 AM

jinwicked, I removed the link to your page with MP3's.

Since the albums the songs are taken from appear to still be commercially available, I am for the sake of simplicity assuming the materials on them are copyrighted. I could be right, I could be wrong - we err on the side of caution when it comes to copyright.

yojimbo

08-12-2002, 05:45 AM

Reason #235 why I hate the 60's and 70's.

I'd put this video as a reason why I love the same period ;)

Enola Straight

08-12-2002, 07:42 PM

:eek: :mad: :confused: :rolleyes: :D

Rilchiam

08-15-2002, 02:03 AM

OH MY GOD!

OH MY GOD!

OH MY GOD!

Repeat 100x.

I don't know whether to scream, laugh, scrub my eyeballs with Clorox, slap myself in the head repeatedly, or faint. I'm mildly surprised it didn't give me a seizure.

My only regret is that it's almost midnight and I can't show this to Mr. Rilch, him being asleep. I could e-mail it to Friend, but I won't. I want to see his reaction first hand.

Oh my god. I didn't think it could get any more bizarre until they started tossing stuff up in the air. Whose IDEA was this? His name and the song title were on the screen at the beginning---was it filmed for Hullabaloo or one of those shows?

Oh my god. No, forget that. There IS no god.

Genseric

08-15-2002, 02:12 AM

That was a hell of a thing...

It made me smile a little bit, though, so it can't be all bad, right?

Rilchiam

08-15-2002, 05:48 AM

Originally posted by Tuckerfan
A couple of thoughts:

1.) If they were to stop running the current crop of anti-drug ads and replace it with Leonard Nimoy saying, "Doing drugs makes things like this seem like a good idea." followed by this video, the drug problem in the US would evaporate overnight.

Was he high when he did this? Please tell me he was. Because it's either that, or he was a lunatic.

Abe Babe

08-15-2002, 08:36 AM

What do I need to watch a quicktime movie?

I tried to play it on Real Player, but it said it was unable to download an appropriate decompressor.

Do I need a different media player to play this?

beagledave

08-15-2002, 08:41 AM

Originally posted by Abe Babe
What do I need to watch a quicktime movie?

I tried to play it on Real Player, but it said it was unable to download an appropriate decompressor.

Do I need a different media player to play this?

Yes go to Apple's Quicktime (http://www.quicktime.com) page

lurkernomore

08-15-2002, 08:43 AM

Originally posted by Abe Babe
What do I need to watch a quicktime movie?

I tried to play it on Real Player, but it said it was unable to download an appropriate decompressor.

Do I need a different media player to play this?

you need quicktime. It's an Apple thing, but there are also Windows versions.

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/

beagledave

08-15-2002, 09:23 AM

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Ethilrist

08-15-2002, 09:37 AM

WAY too much LDS back in the 60's.

beagledave

08-15-2002, 09:56 AM

Originally posted by Ethilrist
WAY too much LDS back in the 60's.

Spock is a Mormon?

World Eater

08-15-2002, 10:16 AM

Did I just actually see that?

whoa

Eats_Crayons

08-15-2002, 10:29 AM

I think I ruptured something while laughing.... Oooohhhhh, my spleen!

The "hobbit dancing" when the go-go dancers scooch down and shake their heads....

Oh, I can't take it anymore!

lurkernomore

08-15-2002, 11:06 AM

Originally posted by beagledave

Spock is a Mormon?

Dave - Kirk said Spock did too much LDS "in Berkeley" in ST-IV. One of us is gettin' whooshed.

slortar

08-15-2002, 11:31 AM

Originally posted by beagledave

Spock is a Mormon?

You need to hie yourself to a local video store and see Star Trek IV...

p@cific@812

08-15-2002, 12:56 PM

Originally posted by lurkernomore

Dave - Kirk said Spock did too much LDS "in Berkeley" in ST-IV. One of us is gettin' whooshed.

I think we might be getting our acronyms confusitated. While LSD almost certainly played a part in this film's production, I doubt the LDS had anything to do with it. .....or did they!?

lurkernomore

08-15-2002, 01:04 PM

P@c ,

Kirk said LDS instead of LSD in the movie. It was to make him look confused and out-of-place. Worked well - the female lead gave him a strange look. It was an intentional error for comedy's sake.

p@cific@812

08-15-2002, 01:11 PM

:: lightbulb appears above head, flickers breifly ::

Is there nothing worse than being on the outside of an inside joke and not even knowing it?! :D

Sunspace

08-15-2002, 04:02 PM

I want to lick William Shatner on the cheek before he dies. It's one of my dreams. I bet he tastes like salted peanuts.Okay. I think I have to bleach my brain now... That was something I didn't ever need to know. <shudder> *twitch*

And I have Incubus on DVD...

zweisamkeit

08-15-2002, 04:33 PM

I'm not able to save it. :( The only options I can click on in the right click menu are "about QuickTime Plugin", "PlugIn Settings", "Connection Speed", and "QuickTime Language".

DAMMIT. I need to keep this for all eternity!

Genseric

08-15-2002, 04:55 PM

Originally posted by zweisamkeit
I'm not able to save it. :( The only options I can click on in the right click menu are "about QuickTime Plugin", "PlugIn Settings", "Connection Speed", and "QuickTime Language".

DAMMIT. I need to keep this for all eternity!

Don't right-click on the actual movie, right-click on the link to it in the OP and select "Save Target As".

KneadToKnow

08-15-2002, 05:46 PM

Isn't there a line in Fellowship of the Ring to the effect that Gandalf is "too fond of the halfings' leaf"?

I think that pretty much sums up the situation that resulted in that song being recorded by that artist. :D

vivalostwages

08-15-2002, 06:39 PM

Originally posted by zev_steinhardt
I've heard this one before. It's on one of my Dr. Demento collections. Never saw the video before.

Zev Steinhardt
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I have QuickTime and still can't see the darn thing. :(
Speaking of Dr. Demento..... I have a cassette tape with about 45 minutes' worth of Trek songs and skits on it. Not the Bilbo tune, but these:

"The Trouble with Klingons" by Dennis Williams
a comedy routine by Jim Samuels
Shatner's "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
Jeff Nelson doing Jimmy Stewart doing Kirk
"Highly Illogical" by Leonard Nimoy
"Star Trip" by the Congress of Wonders
"Spock Rap" by the Neuroparalyzers
"Star Dreck" by Bobby Pickett and Peter Farrar
"Star Trekking" by the Fur ? Furm ? or something.

I treasure this old tape. :)

zweisamkeit

08-15-2002, 06:58 PM

Thanks, Genseric!

Boy, do I feel like a dork. Here I am, a CompSci major, and I can't even save a frikkin' QuickTime movie :smack:

Bearflag70

08-15-2002, 07:08 PM

Thanks for giving me nightmares, Beagledave.

Double dumbass on you!;)

Sunspace

08-15-2002, 07:36 PM

Oh. My. God.
I finally downloaded the thing at home.

My sister had the vinyl back in the seventies, I remember listening to it. And the Shatner, too...

If we'd had any idea there was a *video* of it... :eek:
<twitch>
<whimper>

<pause>

<smiles a little too brightly> Still, the girls were kinda cute...

<head explodes>

Genseric

08-15-2002, 08:11 PM

I CAN'T! STOP! WATCHING IT!

Sunspace

08-15-2002, 11:03 PM

Yeah, aren't the special effects during the fight scene priceless? :)

Genseric

08-16-2002, 01:35 AM

I'm entranced by the whole thing. Being the 60's-o-phile that I am, it seems so perfect. 60's clothes, 60's babes (rowr), 60's tunes, 60's dancing, based on the Hobbit (while published in 1937, really became a 60's phenomenon), with Leonard Nimoy (spock-hair!).

The word kitsch comes to mind.

Probably the same reason I like Sugar Sugar by The Archies.