# NoClueBoy! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 15, 2003, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732 "2003-07-15T20:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/21 "2003-07-16T15:34:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ChuckForbin \* > \*\*Where is that from ? > I remember that from somewhere - but i didn’t think it was > Star Trek. > > Anyway, this thread is a pretty good example of what happens in every Enterprise thread over in Cafe. People start discussing the episode a week before it airs, and then they bitch about how TOS was better, and everyone knows transphotonic phase inverters weren’t invented until the Enterprise D was built. Then something about Pandas. The S/N ration degrades to approximately zero. Then the threads get kept alive somehow for weeks. And yet, I keep clicking them, like the dog who’s master died yet he keeps going to meet him at the bus stop. > Oh, by the way - T’pol is really hot.😃 \*\* Okay, but about those damnable vacuum cleaner guns… ---
**Author:** ![Already\_in\_Use](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@Already\_in\_Use](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Already_in_Use)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/22 "2003-07-16T16:07:47Z")
“And you… I shall call you _qagh_!” “Yes, Captain Kavoc!” ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/23 "2003-07-16T22:51:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Aesiron \* > \*\*Okay, that’s it! **viva** , either find us a new cogenitor or I’m leaving! It’s me or it! \*\* Well, I would have chosen “Charles,” but he/she/it offed him/her/itself, so I’ll have to get to the Vissian system and find us another 'un one of these days. Unless you’d prefer a Xindi species. ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2003, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/24 "2003-07-16T23:52:40Z")
All I know about Star Trek is Wesley Crusher, Troi, Data, and Spock. I think I’ll go now… F\_X ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/25 "2003-07-17T00:31:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ChuckForbin \* > \*\*Where is that from ? > I remember that from somewhere - but i didn’t think it was > Star Trek. > > Anyway, this thread is a pretty good example of what happens in every Enterprise thread over in Cafe. People start discussing the episode a week before it airs, and then they bitch about how TOS was better, and everyone knows transphotonic phase inverters weren’t invented until the Enterprise D was built. Then something about Pandas. The S/N ration degrades to approximately zero. Then the threads get kept alive somehow for weeks. And yet, I keep clicking them, like the dog who’s master died yet he keeps going to meet him at the bus stop. > Oh, by the way - T’pol is really hot.😃 \*\* **Chuck**!!! I’ve been wondering what became of you. So you’re lurking, eh? Oh, and the degradation factor is far below zero, just to be accurate. 😃 – **viva** ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/26 "2003-07-17T01:34:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ChuckForbin \* > \*\*Oh, by the way - T’pol is really hot.😃 \*\* Surely you mean T’pau… …perhaps I’ve said too much. [sub]…damned spores…[/sub] ---
**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:** [July 17, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/27 "2003-07-17T01:37:57Z")
notice the capitalisation: T’Pol is on ENT T’Pau was in TOS and movies ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/28 "2003-07-17T04:43:36Z")
Also on 80’s pop radio. [sub]The geek is so thick you could cut it with a monofilament blade in here.[/sub] ---
**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:** [July 17, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/29 "2003-07-17T04:46:12Z")
Or a phaser cutting phaser! Wait a minute, thick geeks?! You calling me fat? ---
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/30 "2003-07-17T04:47:28Z")
Hey, NCB I was doing okay…until you talked to me _sniff_ why did you leave me? ---
**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:** [July 17, 2003, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/31 "2003-07-17T04:58:43Z")
I never really left, you see… I carry you with me in my heart [kisses] ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/32 "2003-07-17T05:02:11Z")
Quit ruining my pit thread, you Ferengi felchers! ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/33 "2003-07-17T05:14:21Z")
Star Trek’s a buncha poop. [sub]How’s that, **Aesiron**? How _do_ they use the bathroom, anyway?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/34 "2003-07-17T05:21:19Z")
Go watch _Star Trek V_ and find out. 😃 ---
**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:** [July 17, 2003, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/35 "2003-07-17T05:21:37Z")
In space… No one can hear you strain. _ploop_ ---
**Author:** ![Eilsel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c68b51/32.png) [@Eilsel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eilsel)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/36 "2003-07-17T05:22:46Z")
ew ew ew ---
**Author:** ![BrightNShiny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@BrightNShiny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrightNShiny)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/37 "2003-07-17T05:44:20Z")
This thread Shaka when the walls fell. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/38 "2003-07-17T08:11:31Z")
Hmmm. Howsabout, this thread: **Aesiron** , his fists clenched in rage? **Aesiron** , his nostrils flared in anger? [sub] **Skeezix** , at the Dope, his mind turned to jello.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/39 "2003-07-17T11:00:13Z")
Isn’t this thread a violation of the new rule about posting in furrin’ languages? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732/40 "2003-07-17T12:58:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BrightNShiny \* > \*\*This thread > > Shaka when the walls fell. \*\* Could this possibly be the most inside joke ever told? Or just the most inside joke I could ever possibly get? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/noclueboy/188732.md?page=3)