# Enterprise: Affliction **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 19, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827 "2005-02-19T01:08:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/61 "2005-02-22T20:09:20Z")
> [@](#): > > How do you charge your pion, anyway? Col. Schrödinger brandished his cavalry saber over his head. It shone brightly in the harsh desert light. "Never fear, men! They may have infinitesimal half lives, but they are still only subatomic particles! CHARGE! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/62 "2005-02-22T20:18:18Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > When come back, bring pion. [Maria Antoinette] All I have left is some little bit of cake. [/MA] Cellular peptide cake. With mint frosting! ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/63 "2005-02-22T20:33:53Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Say what? In [E2](http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/ENT/episode/4536.html), they meet up with some of their decendents who got trapped in some chrono-thingamajiggy. Their grandkids had a souped-up NX-01, bits of which you can see in the pictures. Notice that they had the extra monitor and the flashy light things. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/64 "2005-02-22T21:21:52Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > There’s a higher overhead if you get caught on murder than kidnapping. You also get extra time for assulting an Oriental person outside a Chinese restaurant; being non-PC, you understand. Juries are like that. That should be “Korean person outside a Chinese or Oriental restaraunt”, you insensitive clod. People are Asian or [Nationality], places and objects are Oriental. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/65 "2005-02-22T22:02:40Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > you insensitive clod. Gotta box of tapes today. Sure hope I don’t set the 'ol giant magnet on 'em by mistake. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/66 "2005-02-22T22:06:06Z")
Sorry about that. \*\*Tars \*\*was visiting earlier and catching up on old times and that was his post. Honest. Klingon’s honor. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/67 "2005-02-22T22:08:10Z")
Darn those Barsoomians! ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/68 "2005-02-22T22:13:49Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Gotta box of tapes today. Sure hope I don’t set the 'ol giant magnet on 'em by mistake. > > 🙂 Hey, just be glad it wasn’t packaged brains… [http://nybb.hs.columbia.edu/pathologist.htm](http://nybb.hs.columbia.edu/pathologist.htm) * * * ## ENT humor, continued: [http://www.comics.com/wash/candorville/index.html](http://www.comics.com/wash/candorville/index.html) **athelas** , when you write “Trippppp,” do you spit while typing it, or only when you say it out loud? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/69 "2005-02-22T22:21:11Z")
What is brain? ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/70 "2005-02-22T22:34:28Z")
I’ve heard of hand models, etc., but … who was the brain model they used? Louis Tully? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/71 "2005-02-22T23:18:09Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > What is brain? A Gamester of Triskelion. Who is Louis Tully? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/72 "2005-02-22T23:50:00Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > How do you charge your pion, anyway? They’re already charged or uncharged when they leave the factory. Fun fact: Pions, being mesons, are composed of a quark and an antiquark. This is why their half-lives are so abyssmally short – the quark and the antiquark quickly annihilate each other. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2005, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/73 "2005-02-22T23:58:05Z")
A Quark and a what, you say? Shouldn’t that be Rom? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/74 "2005-02-23T00:04:15Z")
Three quarks for Muster Mark! ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/75 "2005-02-23T00:05:22Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > A Quark and a what, you say? Shouldn’t that be Rom? No, no – the closest thing we’ve seen to an Auntie Quark would be Moogie. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/76 "2005-02-23T00:09:03Z")
That made me laugh so much harder than it should have. I’m hopeless. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/77 "2005-02-23T00:11:32Z")
Murray Gell-Mann was an exceedingly odd fellow. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/78 "2005-02-23T04:08:50Z")
_::[cough](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5873243#post5873243)::_ ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/79 "2005-02-23T14:48:49Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Who is Louis Tully? Dr. Raymond Stantz: Are you okay? Louis Tully: Who are you guys? Dr. Raymond Stantz: We’re the Ghostbusters. Louis Tully: Who does your taxes? Dr. Raymond Stantz: You know, Mr. Tully, you are a most fortunate individual. Louis Tully: I know! Dr. Raymond Stantz: You have been a participant in the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska blast of 1909! Louis Tully: Felt great. Dr. Egon Spengler: We’d like to get a sample of your brain tissue. Louis Tully: Okay. [sub]I remembered the lines, but had to look up the name.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2005, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827/80 "2005-02-23T16:03:38Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Darn those Barsoomians! _Green_ Barsoomians! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-affliction/290827.md?page=5)