# The fan-wanking round-robin thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fan-wanking-round-robin-thread/390162 "2007-01-30T20:30:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fan-wanking-round-robin-thread/390162/81 "2007-02-03T05:19:52Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] But riddle me this: Why doesn’t James Bond spend half of every movie being treated for the different varieties of VD he must be catching from all of the wenches he beds? [/QUOTE] M designed a built in condom, tested at great length on Moneypenny. What are those blue cubes and green things they eat on ST TOS? ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fan-wanking-round-robin-thread/390162/82 "2007-02-03T09:02:58Z")
Because that would make them the Mark of the Beast and that’s a different sci-fi series. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fan-wanking-round-robin-thread/390162/83 "2007-02-03T09:06:04Z")
[QUOTE=betenoir] Because that would make them the Mark of the Beast and that’s a different sci-fi series. [/QUOTE] Whoops. That was for post 50. I’m tired. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fan-wanking-round-robin-thread/390162/84 "2007-02-03T16:08:56Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] Those Colonial women are built pretty tough. For them, a pummeling in the ring is like a weekend at the spa for Earth women. But tell me. Why didn’t the Starfleet landing party personnel in Kirk’s time have those little subepidemal transponders permanently implanted? [/QUOTE] Subspace carrier waves are deleterious to living tissue, but only over long periods and only if the source of the transmission is within half a centimeter. Thus communicators aren’t dangerous, but permanent transponders within living flesh would be. The effect tends to be cumulative, which is why landing party personnel don 't have them put in for every mission, either, but only use them on occasions when it’s clear they are likely to need them. Why can Wonder Woman take punches from Kryptonians and Daxamites and walk away, but yet has to defend herself from bullets with her bracelets? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fan-wanking-round-robin-thread/390162/85 "2007-02-03T17:43:29Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Subspace carrier waves are deleterious to living tissue, but only over long periods and only if the source of the transmission is within half a centimeter. Thus communicators aren’t dangerous, but permanent transponders within living flesh would be. The effect tends to be cumulative, which is why landing party personnel don 't have them put in for every mission, either, but only use them on occasions when it’s clear they are likely to need them… [/QUOTE] I think this wins the prize for Best Fanwank Ever. It actually makes sense! As for Wonder Woman, she must have some Colonial blood. Punching doesn’t faze her. Bullets? That’s a different story. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fan-wanking-round-robin-thread/390162/86 "2007-02-03T18:12:00Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] M designed a built in condom, tested at great length on Moneypenny. [/quote] Is that an intentionally dirty joke? > [@](#): > > What are those blue cubes and green things they eat on ST TOS? Starfleet anti-alien-babe cootie vaccines. brewha Quote: [QUOTE=silenus] In the same movie, how in the universe did Sulu learn how to fly a Huey in less than a day? Not just fly it, but know it well enough to be able to hover and lower material into the warbird. [/QUOTE] Sulu was an aficionado of ancient aircraft and had spent many long hours in the 24th-century equivalent of Flight Simulator for the Huey. He spent most of his part of that mission simply finding the helicopter he knew how to fly. So who actually killed the Witch-King, Eowyn or Merry? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fan-wanking-round-robin-thread/390162/87 "2007-02-03T18:28:49Z")
[QUOTE=Skald the Rhymer] Is that an intentionally dirty joke? [/QUOTE] The pun was unintended. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fan-wanking-round-robin-thread/390162/88 "2007-02-03T19:35:18Z")
> [@](#): > > So who actually killed the Witch-King, Eowyn or Merry? Merry crippled him such that he was vulnerable, and might even have mortally wounded him, but Eowyn finished him off before nature (or un-nature, or whatever governs undead) would have had its chance to work its course. So Eowyn gets credit for the frag, and Merry gets an assist. And to head off the related question, Meriadoc was “no man” in more sense than one: Not only is he debateably not human, but he’s also not quite an adult, by Hobbit standards, at that point. And a “man” is an adult male human. My question: The guy Eddie Kim bought the snakes from was in the L. A. area, and many of the snakes themselves were contraband. So how did he get them all to Hawaii on such short notice? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-fan-wanking-round-robin-thread/390162.md?page=4)