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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! /. !!"
Aside: Michael Dorn is not bad for a meatbag, though clearly a droid would make a superior host
Resigned: *sigh* If only my assassination protocol were still functional.
Appeasement: Maybe they will make a sequel.
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Hey!
I'm a pretty bag...its just that i'm filled with "ugly water" because of modern industry.
-Grump
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It's Qapla'.
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They provide excellent reasons for forced sterilization.
Then again being able to speak Klingon pretty much does this without surgery.
the translation of Hamlet into Klingon might be a disservice to the complexity of the author's intention
Like hell. If Hamlet were to be beheaded by Kahless, I might have paid more attention in English class.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
I thought Tolkien Elvish languages (Sindarin and the like) would count as well, considering Tolkien spent a considerable amount of time creating those languages. Although, I suppose, "popular culture" is a rather subjective term.
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Oh, you and your silly stories of the "daystar". Warp speed, Mr. Sulu!
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
You can now search Google in the native klingon language:
http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/
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Surely they could have picked a Klingon phrase for the title? The "ugly bags of mostly water" comes from the "Home Soil" episode where a crystal "brain" uses it to describe humans.
On the contrary, it's people who take sci-fi as more than mere entertainment who give the genre it's amazing power. Consider those dreamers, many obsessed in their adolescence with worlds beyond any possibility, who thirty years later orchestrated the landing of a human being on the surface of the Moon. True fans of science fiction, who see the futures portrayed therein as possibilities waiting to be unlocked rather than foolhardy dreams, are our pilgrims into the future. As odd as they might seem, they are an incredibly valuable portion of our species.
I've just identified myself as a Star Trek Geek. Whoops!
Typically, more than 99% of water is water, the remaining 1% or less being minerals, salts, or pollutants (note - this is a made up statstic, no researchers were disturbed in the making up of this number). However, I have heard of no reports of water being comprised of Kilngons, so it is probably safe to say that 0% of water is made up of Klingons.
Perhaps you were more interested in knowing what percentage of the Klingon body is comprised of water. The answer to that question is, sadly, more difficult to obtain.
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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.
I don't think Neil Armstrong speaks Klingon.
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Of course not. Neil is a very brave and very famous rocket jockey. He was a test pilot who just broke an altitude record. He is not a geek. The geeks stayed on the ground and made sure he didn't go boom.
I would like to see a new Trek series that involves a handful of grunt Earthlings being assigned to a Klingon-commanded Federation starship. It might bring in WWF fans.
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