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Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water
darthcamaro writes "Earthlings Ugly Bags of Mostly Water is the name of a new documentary film - starring Worf (aka Michael Dorn)about Klingon language and culture. They've got a weird website too. 'Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water' captures the lives, passions and quirks of the members of the Klingon Language Institute during their annual qep'a' (conference). The film's producers issued a press release about it today with some interesting quotes... 'The perspective of Michael Dorn, the world's most recognized Klingon, provides both serious and comedic elements to the project,' said Earthlings Director Alexandre Philippe. 'This is a man who embodies all the elements of a Klingon warrior: honor, respect, ferocity. For years, Klingon fans have looked to the Worf character for their education in Klingon culture.' Quaplah! /. !!"
'Earthlings: Ugly Bags of Mostly Water' captures the lives, passions and quirks of the members of the Klingon Language Institute during their annual qep'a' (conference).
I'm sorry but it's people like this that give science fiction a bad name.
What percentage of water are Klingons?
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
I'm really beginning to understand why so many people consider Star Trek fans just a bunch of dorks.
Now as such, why did they name it this, the title has nothing to do with Klingons at all.
"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
I'm pretty sure this is how religions get started.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
Was it the Klingons who referred to humans as "ugly bags of mostly water"? I was under the impression it was those weird crystal things from the episode Home Soil.
? showtopic=927368&st=120 (search for "ugly", it is at the bottom of the page)
http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php
WARNING: If accidentally read, induce vomiting.
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The mirror of http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT
Note to Mods: When I post mirrors, it's a best guess. I don't know for certain whether or not the site will go down!
Recognition of an actor as a famous or 'most recognized' "something" is not confusing the fact that they are actors. It's merely shortcutting the phrase "{character}, as portrayed by {actor}, is the most recognized {type of character}. When people think of {actor}, they think of {type of character}, and if you think of a {type of character}, you think of {character} as portrayed by {actor}."
If you think of "Vampire Slayer", you are likely thinking of one of five actors who portrayed them. Probably one of two characters (Van Helsing or Buffy).
It doesn't mean any of it is real... but "recognized" is a slippery term when dealing with fiction.
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"$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
We know it's a TV show. Real life just sucks. Make real life better, and maybe we'll live in it.
I'm in the hole of the broadband donut.
Gotta love people who hang out on a site subtitled "news for nerds" ripping on other people for how geeky they are.
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
"People like this" are society's excluded. And they (we?) will always exist because society will always exclude. And they'll find places to gather that are, well, exclusive.
Among the current crop of such places, Planet Klingon's not so bad.
Seeing bad movies only encourages them. Watch responsibly
The serious answer is that if you are looking for fluent speakers, you will find more Esperantists. I also noticed that the Klingon Language Institute has an Esperanto introduction whereas no Klingon speakers have done a similar page for the Universala Esperanto-Asocio. That says something about the relative availability of translators for the two languages.
The Esperanto FAQ claims that Esperanto is spoken by roughly the same number of people as Latvian or Hebrew, i.e. enough people to fill a smallish middle-eastern or eastern-european country. Klingon is probably way behind. It's not exactly an impartial source, though.
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I thought the choice was rather odd too. In the original context, a creature made of rock calls humans "ugly bags of mostly water", and it makes sense, because compared to a rock, we are. Coming from a Klingon, however, who are carbon-based humanoids like us and appear to have a similar level of water content in their tissue to humans, the phrase is very out of place.
The "klingons" probably look down on roleplayers.. or those idiots who camp out at the new Star Wars premieres.. or those 50-year-old guys who dress as Sailor Moon (yeah, I read machall).. or -- heaven forbid -- linux weenies.
In fact, somebody out there thinks you are the lowest of the low, and ya know what? Fuck 'em.
Tolkien was also a very noted antiquarian scholar. He wrote ground-breaking essays on Old English, Proto-Germanic, and both Brythonic and Goidelic Celtic tongues.
Finally, I highly doubt Tolkien intended for grown men to feverishly obssess over his creation. Rather, Elvish was more like an academic excercize intended to more fully flesh out the world he created.
Summary: Tolkien was a brilliant scholar and craftsman. Klingons have no such artistic vision and are living in their parents' basement.