# Vulcan courtesy and The Shocker
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 1, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215 "2013-05-01T16:00:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2013, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/1 "2013-05-01T16:00:05Z")
If you’re not familiar with The Shocker, just hit Urban Dictionary & maybe Google Images. It’s naughty.
So we were watching some episode or other of Star Trek a while back and Spock was getting all sentimental and gave Cpt. Kirk the old “love long and prosper” blessing, complete with the Vulcan salute. From that moment on, in our hosehold that gesture is known as “The Spocker”.
I am so sorry. You really have no idea the sorts of thoughts I _have_ spared y’all from.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/2 "2013-05-01T16:32:09Z")
The Vulcan salute has one more finger.
(Side note: Nimoy apparently filched the gesture from one made by rabbis at the end of prayer.)
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2013, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/3 "2013-05-01T16:42:50Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> The Vulcan salute has one more finger.
Yup, a slightly different gesture with a slightly different name. I can only hope I never see a rabbi making that gesture. I can only predict making an irreverent snicker.
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### Author:  [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2013, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/4 "2013-05-01T17:05:53Z")
I am totally stealing “Spocker”.
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### Author:  [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/5 "2013-05-01T17:06:25Z")
I imagine there are many girls that wouldn’t mind a Spocker, when the Shocker just isn’t getting the job done.
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### Author:  [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/6 "2013-05-01T17:34:37Z")
hahaha, this is great. The Spocker! I love it.
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### Author:  [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/7 "2013-05-02T01:49:16Z")
Well, phooey. There goes another (obviously not original!) idea I had for a tee shirt two years ago and never did anything about.
Phooey.
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2013, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/8 "2013-05-02T11:12:43Z")
Spock’s blood is copper-oxide, IIRC. That would effect the color of Vulcan feces, right?
(Yes, this topic leads me to think of such a question)
If they have sex once every seven years, do they still have permanently external gentalia like human males?
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2013, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/9 "2013-05-02T19:16:09Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#):
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> Spock’s blood is copper-oxide, IIRC. That would effect the color of Vulcan feces, right?
> (Yes, this topic leads me to think of such a question)
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> If they have sex once every seven years, do they still have permanently external gentalia like human males?
I can’t answer the first question, but the second was established in _Enterprise_. Vulcan external anatomy is no different from Human external anatomy. The show even gets more specific about genitalia. We find out that Vulcans can get addicted to certain drugs that make them more emotional and apparently horny. The Vulcan in question winds up having sex with a Human, and that human asks for clarification on the mechanics of such. That’s when we are told that sex works the same way for Vulcans and Humans.
And I think I’ve left out enough details to avoid spoiling anything. But if someone disagrees, feel free to report and get spoiler boxes added starting from “We find out that…”
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2013, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/10 "2013-05-02T19:51:58Z")
Fascinating.
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### Author:  [@sachertorte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sachertorte)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2013, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/11 "2013-05-02T20:07:08Z")
> [@The Great Sun Jester](#):
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> If you’re not familiar with The Shocker, just hit Urban Dictionary & maybe Google Images. It’s naughty.
When I google The Shocker, the vulcanized version shows up on google images too; as well as other variations.
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### Author:  [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/12 "2013-05-03T03:35:42Z")
Yeah, this is “old”.
[http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/spocker](http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/spocker)
The rest are there too.
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### Author:  [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2013, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vulcan-courtesy-and-the-shocker/657215/13 "2013-05-03T04:15:34Z")
Internet sucks. My wife and I came up with “Zombie Alpaca Lips” too, only to discover, as with everything else: 1) Someone has already thought of it, and 2) they’re making money off it on the internet.
Columbus wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much credit if they had the internets 1500 years ago. He’d be all, “I justa discover a new continent!” and the vikings would have been all, “Jawn, it’s balls and stuffed with sawages.”