# Enterprise Catwalk spoiler **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466 "2002-12-18T02:06:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/201 "2003-06-24T21:17:14Z")
Would you like some cheese, **Whinus**? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/202 "2003-06-24T21:25:17Z")
Green cell? Vulcanian donation? It’s not that I wouldn’t do it; it’s that I can’t/shouldn’t. Somewhat TMI, but essentially: I would like to donate but it wouldn’t be good for anyone but me (autologous donation only). It’s my own STIGMA!!! ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/203 "2003-06-24T21:26:33Z")
I keep getting emails telling me this thread has a new reply but it doesn’t. Did somebody give **Tars** access to the Dope’s email server or somethin’? **NCB** esque hijack : I killed a pet hamster a few years ago by spinning its exercise wheel really fast while she was in it. ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/204 "2003-06-24T21:37:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\*Would you like some cheese, **Whinus**? 😛 \*\* You don’t want to start with me, do you Mr. I-complain-everytime-I-don’t-think-I’m-getting-enough-attention-or-sympathy? :dubious: Truce? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/205 "2003-06-24T21:41:35Z")
I don’t whine for sympathy! Just for attention! Wait… I didn’t say that. :smack: ---
**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:** [June 25, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/206 "2003-06-25T02:32:31Z")
I was playing with the squeeze’s cat today, making it walk on its hind legs. It looks kind of robotic, I hold its ‘hands’ out in front of it, and slowly move it forward. It has to move its legs or else it’s being dragged along and it doesn’t like to be dragged along. So, it ‘walks’ in these funny, jerky movements. All the while, I’m ventriliquising it saying, “I am Kringles! Fear me! Or feel my wrath!” The cat tends to look around rather a lot while I’m helping it live up to its full potential. BTW, this isn’t a hijack at all. It’s about _Catwalk._ HEEEE!!! 😃 ---
**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:** [June 25, 2003, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/207 "2003-06-25T03:22:58Z")
[Icon Wars](http://www.divstivs.plus.com/iconwar/) It’s a movie. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/208 "2003-06-25T03:27:34Z")
Check your email, **Whinus**. ;j ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/209 "2003-06-25T04:20:01Z")
[Check this!](http://rita.thegourmet.com/computers.html) NCB: That was fantastic! You have provided entertainment even for my 77-year-old mom. She loved it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/210 "2003-06-25T04:25:44Z")
[Link Wars!](http://www.amd.co.at/video/pong.swf) Give it a few seconds and don’t try to play it. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/211 "2003-06-25T13:39:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Linus Van Pelt \* > \*\*… When it comes to choice of phlebotomist, though, cute is the last thing on my mind. After a number of bad experiences with them trying to find my deep veins, I just ask for a supervisor right away. \*\* I can imagine that that would decrease the cuteness factor as a vital consideration. Fortunately, my veins are right close to the surface, and they usually have no trouble finding them. So I can be more frivolous in my selection of vampires. They worry about me, though, because I’m little. That was one thing that was especially cute about the Cutest Phlebotomist Ever - I think he was new, didn’t quite know what he was doing, and he was terribly worried that I was going to die, or something. He was very solicitous. Also cute. _Sigh_ ---
**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:** [June 25, 2003, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/212 "2003-06-25T14:21:01Z")
Does “phle” derive from the same root as “flea”, or “tick”? ---
**Author:** ![Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Linus\_Van\_Pelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linus_Van_Pelt)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/213 "2003-06-25T15:01:12Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Kn_ckers \* > \*\*\ > They worry about me, though, because I’m little. That was one thing that was especially cute about the Cutest Phlebotomist Ever - I think he was new, didn’t quite know what he was doing, and he was terribly worried that I was going to die, or something. He was very solicitous. Also cute. > > _Sigh_ \*\* You should have gone with it - acted like a fainting wilting flower. Or if that’s too much, you should have told him that you were scared and needed him to hold your hand - guys are really suckers for that sort of thing, especially from women that are little (and I bet cute, too). ---
**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:** [June 25, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/214 "2003-06-25T16:07:42Z")
Don’t encourage her, Liunus. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/215 "2003-06-25T16:44:44Z")
_Blushing cutely_ I really should have been all weak and womany and stuff, but I’m a)too stupid to have thought of that and b)too arrogant to do the wilting flower thing. So I’m stuck swooning from afar. And I don’t know about the “phle” thing, **carni** … Dictionary Time! Mmm. Phlebotomy. From Greek. _phlebo_ meaning “vein”, _tomos_ meaning “to cut” “Flea” is from proto-Germanic _flaukh_, meaning “flea”, predictably enough. So they’re different roots. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/216 "2003-06-25T16:50:21Z")
That was a joke, Kn(difficultconcept)ckers. But thanks, I guess. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kn\_ckers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/96bed5/32.png) [@Kn\_ckers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kn_ckers)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2003, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/217 "2003-06-25T19:05:44Z")
I pretty much figured it was, but I got all interested in finding out where they _did_ come from, that I kind of got distracted from being amused. Kn(research nut)ckers ---
**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:** [June 25, 2003, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/218 "2003-06-25T19:07:39Z")
Politics: _poly_ L., “many” and _ticks_, Gr, “Blood sucking”. ---
**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:** [June 25, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/219 "2003-06-25T22:33:57Z")
That **can’t** be right! “Poly” is a Greek root, not a Latin root! ---
**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:** [June 25, 2003, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466/220 "2003-06-25T23:14:46Z")
Politicians. I rest my case. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/enterprise-catwalk-spoiler/143466.md?page=12)