A COVID-19 Humor Thread (Making Viral Lemonade)

Tech

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But when he did he wore a mustache, didn't he? Because an engineer would NEVER be on the bridge, right? :D

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To the nearest pub Mr. Sulu.
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Tech

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Are you sure your photo isn't a deep fake? Because I was told this (below) is an authentic, unretouched still from the show.... And it clearly shows Scotty on the bridge with a dashing handlebar mustache!

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And yes, on to the pub! I'll go with Ms. Uhura, but not with Ms. Sulu.

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You must be using CNN as a source because we all know there is no "Mrs" Sulu.👽
 

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
James Doohan :

Military service

At the beginning of the Second World War, Doohan joined the Royal Canadian Artillery and was a member of the 14th (Midland) Field Battery, 2nd Canadian Infantry Division.[10] He was commissioned a Lieutenant in the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division. He was sent to England in 1940 for training. He first saw combat landing at Juno Beach on D-Day. Shooting two snipers, Doohan led his men to higher ground through a field of anti-tank mines, where they took defensive positions for the night. Crossing between command posts at 11:30 that night, Doohan was hit by six rounds fired from a Bren Gun by a nervous Canadian sentry:[2] four in his leg, one in the chest, and one through his right middle finger. The bullet to his chest was stopped by a silver cigarette case given to him by his brother.[7] His right middle finger had to be amputated, something he would conceal on-screen during most of his career as an actor.[11]

Doohan graduated from Air Observation Pilot Course 40 with eleven other Canadian artillery officers[12] and flew Taylorcraft Auster Mark V aircraft for 666 (AOP) Squadron, RCAF as a Royal Canadian Artillery officer in support of 1st Army Group Royal Artillery. All three Canadian (AOP) RCAF squadrons were manned by artillery officer-pilots and accompanied by non-commissioned RCA and RCAF personnel serving as observers.[13][14]

Although he was never actually a member of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Doohan was once labelled the "craziest pilot in the Canadian Air Force". In the late spring of 1945, on Salisbury Plain north of RAF Andover, he slalomed a plane between telegraph poles "to prove it could be done"—earning himself a serious reprimand. (Various accounts cite the plane as a Hurricane or a jet trainer; however, it was a Mark IV Auster.)[15][16]
 

Rommey

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Remember when we used to laugh at the Russians in the 80's standing in long lines for bread, toilet paper, and other things? Russians who had to live through that era are probably looking at us now like we're a bunch of rookies.
 

Yooper

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Remember when we used to laugh at the Russians in the 80's standing in long lines for bread, toilet paper, and other things? Russians who had to live through that era are probably looking at us now like we're a bunch of rookies.
And it lasted through the mid-1990s.

I was there (in Moscow off and on in and out of the embassy from the early 1990s thru 1997). While it got a bit better by the time I left at the beginning it was truly awful.

Any of these kids here who are jonesing for socialism/communism know not what they wish for.

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