# Hey, Spock, YOU'RE A FUCKIN' MORON! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 8, 2010, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346 "2010-04-08T00:06:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/61 "2010-04-09T12:13:53Z")
Twenty years of groping to prove the things he’d done before were not accidents. Seminars and lectures to rows of fools who couldn’t begin to understand his systems. Colleagues … colleagues laughing behind his back at the boy wonder … then becoming famous building on his work … BUILDING ON HIS WORK! ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/62 "2010-04-09T14:48:30Z")
> [@Nars Glinley](#): > > It’s a wonder life support didn’t get shut off. It was on manual override.😉 [chuckling]die, die, die everybody die[/chuckling] > [@](#): > > BUILDING ON HIS WORK! **Four toys to be Crushed!!!** ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/63 "2010-04-09T14:58:27Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Twenty years of groping to prove the things he’d done before were not accidents. Seminars and lectures to rows of fools who couldn’t begin to understand his systems. Colleagues … colleagues laughing behind his back at the boy wonder … then becoming famous building on his work … BUILDING ON HIS WORK! How did Pee Wee Herman’s life story become the topic of conversation? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/64 "2010-04-09T15:08:30Z")
> [@MacSpon](#): > > Well, it is a _little_ disturbing to find that 23rd-century computers can’t multitask at all. I guess that sometime in the future, someone will figure out why single-threaded is best. Dr. Daystrom is going to introduce multitasking with the M6. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/65 "2010-04-09T15:27:12Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > But it was only a vulcanized chicken! 🙂 That’s okay then, at least they were using a rubber. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/66 "2010-04-10T17:43:36Z")
He is intelligent, but not experienced. His OP indicates…two-dimensional thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Wheeljack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@Wheeljack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheeljack)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/67 "2010-04-10T19:03:01Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > i canna’ take any more! She’s gonna’ fly apart captain!! Fly her apart then! ---
**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:** [April 10, 2010, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/68 "2010-04-10T19:10:42Z")
We’ve replaced the anti matter magnetic containment fields they normally use with Folgers Crystals. Let’s see what happens … ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/69 "2010-04-11T00:38:22Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > We’ve replaced the anti matter magnetic containment fields they normally use with Folgers Crystals. > Let’s see what happens … “Jim never drinks 2 cups of coffee at home…” ---
**Author:** ![Super\_Kapowzler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Super\_Kapowzler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Super_Kapowzler)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/70 "2010-04-11T01:40:52Z")
Two identical Redshirts are stained with blood… One is washed in… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/71 "2010-04-11T02:03:51Z")
I can’t believe this thread has reached a second page. Oh, and I see Super is back to comment further. Enlightening. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/72 "2010-04-11T02:44:02Z")
Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor, not a Barrister! ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/73 "2010-04-11T02:46:16Z")
Darmok, and Jalad … at Tanagra! Shaka, when the walls fell! ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/74 "2010-04-11T03:08:15Z")
Super, come in from the barn and stop staring at the sheep… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/75 "2010-04-11T05:32:09Z")
Dammit, Jim, I’m a doctor, not a launderer. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/76 "2010-04-11T13:05:16Z")
> [@Super\_Kapowzler](#): > > Two identical Redshirts are stained with blood.. > One is washed in… …All-Temperature Cheer while the other was washed with a “leading brand”? ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2010, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/77 "2010-04-11T15:03:51Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > …All-Temperature Cheer while the other was washed with a “leading brand”? Spock has ring-around-the-collar? ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/78 "2010-04-12T03:54:21Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > Darmok, and Jalad … at Tanagra! Shaka, when the walls fell! Kadir beneath Mo Moteh. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/79 "2010-04-12T13:27:59Z")
[Obligatory video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luVjkTEIoJc) (SFW, 1:39). ---
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hey-spock-youre-a-fuckin-moron/535346/80 "2010-04-12T17:12:43Z")
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