Office 2000 is the same way. I use this at work constantly, and I find it hilarious. I don't have an Office XP upgrade CD, just a full version, so I can't say if it does the same thing.
Listen, I just want to make a comment to people who keep saying "get a life" and "don't nitpick the show". Let's take a look at a few series on TV, both currently, and in the recent past:
Seinfeld: The continuity episode to episode was critical to the humor, much of which came from in-jokes about previous episodes. George purchases inexpensive wedding invitation envelopes and the seal poisons his fiancee to death. He then is put on the board to distribute the foundation put in her name, and the majority of the humor in those scenes is funny because the audience knows what has happened. Ignoring First Contact continuity is equivalent of in the final episode of Seinfeld, having the police dredge the local sewer and find the wreckage of George's fiancee's car and her body.
Frasier: Quite similar - a sequel series to Cheers. The viewers know that during the run of Cheers, Frasier was married to Lilith. Casually mentioning Frasier's carefree bachelor days of the same time period he was married to Lilith on Cheers would be the same thing, and I'm SURE viewers would be pissed.
ER: One of the nurses on ER who is no longer on the series had HIV, which she got from her ex-husband. I would say this is a pretty major thing for anyone, which of course is why it was on the show. If she was brought back onto the show and was telling everyone about how her HIV was contracted when she shared her drug needles, people would be confused, and would probably be pissed off.
So here we have Star Trek. Picard is abducted by the Borg and turned into Locutus, then transformed back into Picard by the crew. Yes, he has problems with it, and they spend a good amount of time of two episodes dealing with this fact. Picard visits his brother and has quite an emotional time of things. Yet, during all this time, nothing is mentioned of a Borg Queen, and whomp we go through 4 more seasons of TNG. Two movies later, we only then find out about this Borg Queen?
When you watch a series and actually use your BRAIN, you remember things. I remember things in life, but life generally doesn't contradict itself. A few months ago, I watched the episode of TOS, the one where the Romulans come back to the federation after 100 years of self-imposed exile behind the Neutral Zone. A good amount of exposition is spent on discussing the Earth-Romulan war, and how it was fought with nuclear weapons.
This places the war right smack in the middle of Star Trek: Enterprise. This could NOT have been an accident, and I expect full well to see it come to pass... just like the Clone Wars in the Star Wars universe. If they ignore it, we will all be pissed.
Am I an idiot because I remember there's supposed to be a war? Football fans remember the statistics of all their players and even play fantasy football leagues using the stats. I don't fully understand THAT, but I don't make fun of it. We all have our things we enjoy doing.
What I find amusing is the fact that non-Christians will attack Christians for no apparent reason.
The only way you can possibly think that Christians feel the earth was seeded by aliens, or "ancient astronauts", whatever, is to not understand what we believe.
To ridicule things you don't understand is nothing more than ignorance.
I may disagree with their views, but I respect people who investigate Christianity and then, with an informed mind, intellectually reject it. Apparently you reject it on the assumption that we are all mindless robots who follow what others tell us simply because it's easier than thinking on our own. You, apparently(and when I say you, I mean both the poster and the responder), subscribe to a certain belief because it's been presented to you as "fact".
Personally I think this guy was a kook and nothing more.:)
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Office 2000 is the same way. I use this at work constantly, and I find it hilarious. I don't have an Office XP upgrade CD, just a full version, so I can't say if it does the same thing.
Listen, I just want to make a comment to people who keep saying "get a life" and "don't nitpick the show". Let's take a look at a few series on TV, both currently, and in the recent past:
Seinfeld: The continuity episode to episode was critical to the humor, much of which came from in-jokes about previous episodes. George purchases inexpensive wedding invitation envelopes and the seal poisons his fiancee to death. He then is put on the board to distribute the foundation put in her name, and the majority of the humor in those scenes is funny because the audience knows what has happened. Ignoring First Contact continuity is equivalent of in the final episode of Seinfeld, having the police dredge the local sewer and find the wreckage of George's fiancee's car and her body.
Frasier: Quite similar - a sequel series to Cheers. The viewers know that during the run of Cheers, Frasier was married to Lilith. Casually mentioning Frasier's carefree bachelor days of the same time period he was married to Lilith on Cheers would be the same thing, and I'm SURE viewers would be pissed.
ER: One of the nurses on ER who is no longer on the series had HIV, which she got from her ex-husband. I would say this is a pretty major thing for anyone, which of course is why it was on the show. If she was brought back onto the show and was telling everyone about how her HIV was contracted when she shared her drug needles, people would be confused, and would probably be pissed off.
So here we have Star Trek. Picard is abducted by the Borg and turned into Locutus, then transformed back into Picard by the crew. Yes, he has problems with it, and they spend a good amount of time of two episodes dealing with this fact. Picard visits his brother and has quite an emotional time of things. Yet, during all this time, nothing is mentioned of a Borg Queen, and whomp we go through 4 more seasons of TNG. Two movies later, we only then find out about this Borg Queen?
When you watch a series and actually use your BRAIN, you remember things. I remember things in life, but life generally doesn't contradict itself. A few months ago, I watched the episode of TOS, the one where the Romulans come back to the federation after 100 years of self-imposed exile behind the Neutral Zone. A good amount of exposition is spent on discussing the Earth-Romulan war, and how it was fought with nuclear weapons.
This places the war right smack in the middle of Star Trek: Enterprise. This could NOT have been an accident, and I expect full well to see it come to pass... just like the Clone Wars in the Star Wars universe. If they ignore it, we will all be pissed.
Am I an idiot because I remember there's supposed to be a war? Football fans remember the statistics of all their players and even play fantasy football leagues using the stats. I don't fully understand THAT, but I don't make fun of it. We all have our things we enjoy doing.
That's my say. Flame me if you wish.
Greg Chance
What I find amusing is the fact that non-Christians will attack Christians for no apparent reason.
:)
The only way you can possibly think that Christians feel the earth was seeded by aliens, or "ancient astronauts", whatever, is to not understand what we believe.
To ridicule things you don't understand is nothing more than ignorance.
I may disagree with their views, but I respect people who investigate Christianity and then, with an informed mind, intellectually reject it. Apparently you reject it on the assumption that we are all mindless robots who follow what others tell us simply because it's easier than thinking on our own. You, apparently(and when I say you, I mean both the poster and the responder), subscribe to a certain belief because it's been presented to you as "fact".
Personally I think this guy was a kook and nothing more.