# STAAAAARRRRR Trekkin'

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/staaaaarrrrr-trekkin/280915>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 21, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/staaaaarrrrr-trekkin/280915 "2004-12-21T03:18:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**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:** [December 22, 2004, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/staaaaarrrrr-trekkin/280915/41 "2004-12-22T23:38:47Z")

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> [@JohnBckWLD](#):
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> How Ironic. The moderator, C K Dexter Haven, uses reply counts as the barometer to discern what is suitable first page content, what’s clutter and what’s simply a thread dedicated to a novelty song.

Huh?

[looks around]

Nope. Not the Pit. Pleae keep complaints out of this purely for fun discussion.

Now, let’s get back to the silly songs. 🙂  
\*Some people want to fill the Dope

With silly Trek songs

And what’s wrong with that?

I’d like to know

'Cause here I go

AGAIN!!!\*

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**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:** [December 23, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/staaaaarrrrr-trekkin/280915/42 "2004-12-23T02:06:46Z")

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To paraphrase the cleaned-up-for-TV version of _Repo Man_:

TREK YOU! TREK YOU, YOU TREKKIN’ MELONFARMER!!

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**Author:** ![Ninja\_Pizza\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f04885/32.png) [@Ninja\_Pizza\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ninja_Pizza_Guy)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/staaaaarrrrr-trekkin/280915/43 "2004-12-23T04:48:55Z")

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Ah, yes, _Star Trekkin’_. My sister and I, along with my young niece & nephew (ages 5 and 8, respectively) listed to and sang this song non-stop for _five hours_.

Why, you ask? Because niece and nephew were leaving w/mommie and daddie (aka sis & the git) on an eight-hour trip, and I wanted the kids to have a road song they could sing. Preferably for eight hours. And it worked, I later heard.

Don’t know if there’s a connection, but nowadays, it’s sis & the ex-git (he’s still a git, but he’s an ex.)

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2004, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/staaaaarrrrr-trekkin/280915/44 "2004-12-23T06:10:38Z")

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Ah, memories of the Dr. Demento show on some Phila FM station on Sunday nights.

\*Your eyes cast a spell that bewitches. The last time I needed twenty stitches to sew up the gash you made with your lash, as we danced to the Masochism Tango

All the world seems in tune, on a Spring afternoon, when we’re poisoning pigeons in the park\*

Yessir, Tom Lehrer is one sick puppy. 😃

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