# 'she's dead jim' from google chrome. where does the saying come from? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 1, 2013, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077 "2013-10-01T10:25:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sentrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@sentrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sentrix)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/1 "2013-10-01T10:25:50Z")
google chrome plugin stopped working and i got ‘she’s dead jim’. along with a nasty icon and reload advice. happened a few times before but i would like to know who is jim and where does this saying come from? ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/2 "2013-10-01T10:28:35Z")
The original Star Trek TV show. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0yXqU-w9U0) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/3 "2013-10-01T10:28:57Z")
Jim = James T. Kirk It’s a Star Trek reference. ---
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/4 "2013-10-01T10:30:40Z")
Star Trek: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir1a\_3UBtg0](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir1a_3UBtg0) ---
**Author:** ![sentrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@sentrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sentrix)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/5 "2013-10-01T10:33:59Z")
thank you very much. i saw an old western once and a horse was dying in the arms of a cowboy. took it as being that. its name was jim or was it the cowboy? not a star trekker. thanks again. ---
**Author:** ![bob\_2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_2/32/3341_2.png) [@bob\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bob_2)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/6 "2013-10-01T10:47:27Z")
Reminds me of a story: Way back in the olden days before email, a memo (remember them?) was circulating round the UK Ministry of Defence. Various people added comments to it and passed it on, as was the usual practice. When it got to Colonel Blank, he took great exception, scrawled ‘Round Objects’, and sent it back. When the minister read the memo and the comments, he added a note to the civil servant in charge - “Who is Round, and to what does he object?” ---
**Author:** ![sentrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac8455/32.png) [@sentrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sentrix)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/7 "2013-10-01T10:57:07Z")
back when hu jin tao was the head honcho is china, many joked about his name. who? ( hu) ---
**Author:** ![Pjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pjen)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/8 "2013-10-01T12:20:30Z")
I don’t think this novelty Top Twenty item made it in the US- having a go at just about every startrek cliche: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FCARADb9asE/hqdefault.jpg "The Firm - Star Trekkin'") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE) Damn, that is going to be my earworm for the day! ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/9 "2013-10-01T12:21:13Z")
Star Trek iirc ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/10 "2013-10-01T12:26:57Z")
I believe it is a line from “Rio” by Duran Duran. ---
**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:** [October 1, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/11 "2013-10-01T13:14:37Z")
> [@bob\_2](#): > > Reminds me of a story: > > Way back in the olden days before email, a memo (remember them?) was circulating round the UK Ministry of Defence. Various people added comments to it and passed it on, as was the usual practice. When it got to Colonel Blank, he took great exception, scrawled ‘Round Objects’, and sent it back. > > When the minister read the memo and the comments, he added a note to the civil servant in charge - “Who is Round, and to what does he object?” I had no idea what this meant, until I searched for it: [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yes,\_Minister](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yes,_Minister) Sounds like a job for Snopes, to me… ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/12 "2013-10-01T13:26:41Z")
> [@Pjen](#): > > I don’t think this novelty Top Twenty item made it in the US- having a go at just about every startrek cliche: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE) > Damn, that is going to be my earworm for the day! I heard it on Dr. Demento. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/13 "2013-10-01T13:39:52Z")
Without even clicking on the link (which I can’t from work anyway) I’m betting the line “We come in peace - shoot to kill.” is in there, isn’t it? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lasciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lasciel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lasciel)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/14 "2013-10-01T13:49:43Z")
It was a summer-camp song for me. “He’s dead, Jim, he’s dead.” Better that than endless rounds of Shark. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/15 "2013-10-01T14:06:07Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Without even clicking on the link (which I can’t from work anyway) I’m betting the line “We come in peace - shoot to kill.” is in there, isn’t it? 😃 Yep, that’s the song. I, too, know it from Dr. Demento and it came immediately to mind from reading the thread title. It didn’t get radio play outside that, so far as I remember. (Holy crap. Looking at Wikipedia entry, apparently “Star Trekkin” was #1 on the singles charts for two weeks in the UK.) ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/16 "2013-10-01T15:19:49Z")
Theeeeeeeeeere’s Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, starboard bow, There’s Klingons on the starboard bow, Get 'em off, Jim! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/17 "2013-10-01T15:21:17Z")
But where do Starfleet officers go to work out? ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/18 "2013-10-01T15:46:26Z")
**Moderator Action** This has strayed well into Cafe Society territory, so let’s beam it over there. Moving thread from General Questions to Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/19 "2013-10-01T20:34:48Z")
> [@sentrix](#): > > back when hu jin tao was the head honcho is china, many joked about his name. > > who? ( hu) [Hu is on the phone.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2IdZSuP0kA) ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2013, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077/20 "2013-10-01T21:14:50Z")
Okay better question for ST:TOS fans (that, and I’m just plain curious to see how long it takes someone to come up with the answer): In which episode did Bones say it _ **first** _? 😃 I await your collective brilliance. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shes-dead-jim-from-google-chrome-where-does-the-saying-come-from/670077.md?page=2)