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Wil Wheaton playing for EFF
Quintin Stone (and every other Slashdot reader on the planet) writes: "Wil Wheaton is among the many Star Trek actors on tonight's Weakest Link, except that the charity he's playing for is the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Though so far he's been doing well." CD: I don't want to give away the ending, many people have yet to see the show.
an AC telling us Levar won?
lemme guess... "But you dont have to take MY word for it!" buh bum BUM
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Gotta say, Wil, that bowling shirt was cool.
But since I already sent email to that effect, I guess I'm (-1: Redundant).
-l
Heh heh... and to think that just a week or two ago, I posted a comment telling how much I hated his character in Star Trek. Especially in that episode where they go to some planet where the penalty for any crime, no matter how small, is death, and he runs into a glass thing and then there's a whole bunch of politics going on to try and get him out of it. But if he's donating to the EFF, it's all good dog.
No, this isn't really an apology. I still think his character was a moron.
Oh well.
I just heard on the radio that Richard William Wheaton III (Wil Wheaton's full name) was found dead today at his home in LA. We will all remember his wonderful performances as Wesley Crusher on Star Trek:TNG and Gordie Lachance on Stand By Me. Recently he appeared as a contestant on the television gameshow "The Weakest Link". Wil has contributed much to society, and I'm sure he will be greatly missed by the readers of Slashdot.
We have locked onto your coordinates in Australia. Per the DMCA and the Berne Copyright Treaty, Jack Valenti and the MPAA will be coming to investigate your ass for conspiracy to pirate intellectual property. We will be investigating your ass with a large unlubricated broomstick handle, followed by the large end of a Louisville slugger, and finally we will conclude by investigating your ass with this. Do not be alarmed, if you have done nothing wrong then you have nothing to hide. Thank you.
It didn't, it said "wil lost"
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Just like Wil tried to vote off Robert, the brightest of the bunch.
Wil was far from the smartest contestant.
-Legion
I guess those years of Reading Rainbow really paid off...
agreed! i've actually been reading his site for quite a while.. and if he wasn't married, i think i'd have a bit of a crush on him! :)
- dev0n (www.dev0n.com)
LeVar was on Reading Rainbow, after all....
We should never give any money to any organization that helps anybody but women and children. Let's immediately cut all government funding and donations to art, science, politics, education...everything.
So, you don't have any worldly possessions -- you live in a cardboard box and use the Internet thanks to the generosity of passing laptop-and-802.11b-bearing strangers. You are a model to all of us!
-Waldo Jaquith
but I'm in Oz so we just get the stupid local version...
Hmmm... strange. That's what we get in the U.S. too.
I'm humming the theme song.
Mod that guy up as funny.
I don't normally watch the show except during commercials on the other channel, but yes she did seem especially bitchy tonight especially to Wil. Perhaps her hemmorhoids are acting up or she has the cramps. No that can't be it. I'm sure she went through menopause decades ago.
In the previews they showed Anne Robinson saying, "Whose phaser is set on stupid?" I didn't see that one in the aired version.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Naw... she was just disgusted by Shatner's kiss.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
...of an unladen African swallow?
That would be illegal though. The show is copyrighted. Sucks to be you I guess. There are some benefits to being an American... Celebrity WL Star Trek edition is one of them baby. ;-)
Well, she *IS* half-klingon.
Paul Anderson
"I drank WHAT?!" -- Socrates
So, NBC is now going to donate $10,000 to the EFF. Does anyone else find this kinda funny? :)
I seem to remember Junior Achivement as a sort of mobile capitalist indoctrination
Yeah, that's the way the idiot pinko commie traitor crowd in my high school described it, too.
People who didn't have an axe to grind described it as a practical course in developing, marketing, and selling a product. All in all, quite useful knowledge in a world where Marx has been relegated to the ash heap of history, where he belongs.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I didn't submit this story! Therefore, I'm not on the planet, I'm in an incredibly detailed holographic simulation. Wow. I didn't know that before...
I'm sorry, I don't think I can respect you after you got the Orvile Redenbacher question wrong. Not to mention how long it took you to multiply 4 * 21.
The funniest part of the show (next to William Shatner hitting on the host) was when Denise Crosby was asked 'What is the national anthem of Canada?' and she replied 'Oh...Canada?'
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