# Shatner shills for a shitty "dotcom" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 5, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013 "2000-01-05T19:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/1 "2000-01-05T19:05:00Z")
Christ on a pogo-stick jumping on Peter’s balls!! Who’s responsible for this brain fart? A la his recording of _Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds_, ol’ Bill croons, supposedly, _Convoy_ and another equally insipid tune, wearing a leather jacket, backed by a lounge band, to tout the benefits of on line purchases!! Who the fuck thought his attempt at singing (or possibly humor)would make me want to visit their site? What the fuck were Bill’s ‘people’ thinking? And the idea was so _good_ they just had to do a series of them?!! God porking a pot pie!! Shoot me (and the responsible ad exec) now. ---
**Author:** ![Jett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@Jett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jett)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/2 "2000-01-05T19:28:00Z")
I had a totally different reaction. I was delighted to see Shatner flexing his golden throat during primetime ad space. I have often thought that [priceline.com](http://priceline.com) (It stuck in my mind after that ad - effective!) was an interesting concept, but after seeing the ad I am much more likely to make time to check it out. * * * Some mornings, it’s just not worth chewing through the leather straps. – Emo Phillips ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/3 "2000-01-05T20:14:00Z")
It stands out in my head, too, like an Old Navy commercial. * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/4 "2000-01-05T20:19:00Z")
My friend works for [priceline.com](http://priceline.com), so I’ll try to get the inside dope on the commercials. (Or, more appropriately, the STRAIGHT DOPE! Hahaha! Just kidding.) ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/5 "2000-01-05T20:38:00Z")
Old Navy commercials stand out in my head, just like a spike through my brain. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/6 "2000-01-05T20:53:00Z")
Exactly my point, Guy 🙂 * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![pqlier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@pqlier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pqlier)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2000, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/7 "2000-01-05T22:12:00Z")
Picture yourself with your face on an album Of woeful renditions of really good songs; Suddenly someone appears with big money They’ll pay to continue your wrongs… $ Shatner shills for shiiiiiitty dotcoms Shatner shills for shiiiiiitty dotcoms AAAAAAAAAARGH! Picture yourself with a shitload of moolah It won’t even matter you’re yesterday’s guy! Suddenly something is worse than your acting For folks to remember you by! $ Shatner shills for shiiiiiitty dotcoms Shatner shills for shiiiiiitty dotcoms AAAAAAAAAARGH! Shatner shills for shiiiiiitty dotcoms Shatner shills for shiiiiiitty dotcoms AAAAAAAAAARGH! Shatner shills for shiiiiiitty dotcoms Shatner shills for shiiiiiitty dotcoms (fade) ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/8 "2000-01-06T05:41:00Z")
Well, it don’t surprise me none. That guy couldn’t commandeer his toupee out of his own Blackhole Vortex of Talent… ---
**Author:** ![Ayesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c0e974/32.png) [@Ayesha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ayesha)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/9 "2000-01-06T06:28:00Z")
Will this horror never end ? Does Shatner have no shame ? Why can’t this just be a horrible dream ? Help me, someone, anyone, make it go away PLEASE ! * * * Ayesha - Lioness * * * There are two solutions to every problem : the wrong one, and mine (Thomas A. Edison) ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/10 "2000-01-06T08:03:00Z")
WhatIwannaknow…How much is Billgates dangling in front of Leonard Nimoy??? ---
**Author:** ![pqlier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@pqlier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pqlier)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/11 "2000-01-06T21:13:00Z")
Big bucks keep on dangling, Songs we will keep on mangling! Rolling Rolling Rolling in the moolah… ---
**Author:** ![cleosia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@cleosia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cleosia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/12 "2000-01-06T21:25:00Z")
Oh, come on guys. His singing for the commercial was no where near as horrendous as his redition of “Rocket Man” for the SciFi awards several years back. Or his recording of “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. Or his attempt at “Mr. Tambourine Man”… * * * Bitch by Birth ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/13 "2000-01-06T21:28:00Z")
Nothing can touch Sebastian Cabot’s (Mr. French on “Family Affair”) truly insane version of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me, Babe,” available on Rhino Records “Golden Throats” compilation. Very, very weird. William Shatner is a Great Canadian ™. * * * **Launcher may train without warning.** ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/14 "2000-01-06T21:36:00Z")
I don’t know whether these people were on the “Golden Throats” series, but Greg Morris and Peter Marshall both recorded music albums. One thing about the “Convoy” song is that it was one of the early rap songs. Strange how rap wasn’t called “rap” until Blacks started recording it. Before that, it was just “recordings by Honkies who can’t carry a tune.” ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2000, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/15 "2000-01-06T21:49:00Z")
> [@](#): > > One thing about the “Convoy” song is that it was one of the early rap songs. If by “rap” you mean “a country and western song with CB radio patois interspersed between the choruses.” Or are you going to claim that all spoken-word recordings are “rap”? I’d like to see you defend that idea. > [@](#): > > Strange how rap wasn’t called “rap” until Blacks started recording it. That’s because what you think is “rap” isn’t rap. Rap describes a performing style originated by --you guessed it – black people. > [@](#): > > Before that, it was just “recordings by Honkies who can’t carry a tune.” Whatever. Anyway, the female guitar player in the band backing Shatner sure is cute. * * * “It’s my considered opinion you’re all a bunch of sissies!”–Paul’s Grandfather ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/16 "2000-01-07T01:05:00Z")
> [@](#): > > William Shatner is a Great Canadian ™. If you are referring to the man’s overall girth, then yes. ---
**Author:** ![Kelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ac91a4/32.png) [@Kelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/17 "2000-01-07T02:42:00Z")
As we deride O’ Bill, he is crying all the way to the bank. ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/18 "2000-01-07T03:02:00Z")
It’s nice to know he can cry all the way to the bank, since he can’t act his way out of a paper bag. ---
**Author:** ![Lawrence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Lawrence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lawrence)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2000, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/19 "2000-01-07T03:54:00Z")
I know rap when I hear it, and Convoy ain’t rap. ---
**Author:** ![Sycorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Sycorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sycorax)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2000, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013/20 "2000-01-10T02:41:00Z")
I know rap when I hear it and Convoy ain’t rap. Now then, I’m afraid I have to defend Bill, except for that crappy toupee and the occasional overacting. He and I go way back - to the original ST series; I thought he was sexy then and had a crush on him. As for celebrities who can’t sing singing anyway, hey, if you were rich and famous and thought you could sing, wouldn’t you put out a recording? And I have to confess, the ad worked on me. No, he still can’t sing, but I remember it, and that’s the point. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shatner-shills-for-a-shitty-dotcom/4013.md?page=2)