BS: Shatner's a fraud.

Subject: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Davetnova
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 02:52 PM

I've just been watching Buster Crabbe's Planet outlaws. Buck Rodgers is Shatner! No wait, I mean he's just a copy. I never realised what a seminal influence Buster had been to me, Saturday morning Cinema, Gravity belts, Wilma. The uniforms are Star Trek, decades early. The hero, Shatner can only wish. Wrath of Khan, huh, Killer Kane.
Shatner, you're a fraud.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 02:54 PM

You are single-handedly going to cause a war between England and Ontario. I am just letting you know. That's not a threat, it's a notification.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 02:56 PM

Heart Throb of a Nation

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 02:59 PM

Shatner may be rubbish, but at least he's Canadian rubbish.
Giok ¦¬] {Sits back, waits for an LH explosion}

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:03 PM

You bet he is! Buck Rogers Rules! (And he's All-American!)

Rogers is a former U.S. Air Service support pilot who served in France during World War I. After being mustered out, he worked as a surveyor in Pennsylvania where he was trapped in a mine by a cave-in and overcome by a strange, radioactive gas that put him in a state of suspended animation for 500 years. Upon awakening (the beginning of the story), the first person he sees is Wilma Deering, who mistakes him for an outlaw and tries to shoot him. Grabbing her ray gun when she trips a root, he kills the outlaws and wins her confidence. Spotting Buck as a man to be trusted (and perhaps loved), she brings him up to date and tells him of the Mongol plot to dominate the world. Donning the jumping belt of one of the fallen outlaws, he joins Wilma for a tour of magnificent cites of "metalloglass" where 25th century citizens eat synthetic food, travel by air (roads are almost nonexistent), and have a number of ingenious art deco gadgets to do all the drudge work. In no time at all, Buck has become a captain of Earth's military forces, a secret agent, an intelligence officer and head of the Rocket Rangers, with Wilma as his co-pilot and the brilliant Dr. Huer as his advisor. They spend the next 38 years battling the Mongols, Killer Kane and his untrustworthy partner-in-crime, the malevolently beautiful Ardala.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:04 PM

grasshopper - you have discovered one of the universal ultimate truths. Unfortunately - now the Canadians will kill you.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:07 PM

Hey, first ain't necessarily best. And we know who's best.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:11 PM

I had that Joni Mitchell in the back of my cab once.
G..

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:11 PM

Of course we know who is best !

DUCK DODGERS!

of the 24rth and 1/2 century

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Davetnova
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:16 PM

Busters got a better haircut too, I think it's probably even real.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:19 PM

You guys south of the border gotta get a grip.

Buck Rogers

William Shatner

NO contest.

I rest my case (thanks to Mario's insight).

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:24 PM

I am going back to drink. Kirk was born in Iowa!

. . . and drugs.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:25 PM

Well! G! I am surprised! I never took you for a lad what would kiss and tell. Er, ah, how was that overbite?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:26 PM

SHATNER IS A FRAUD. I WILL HELP YOU INVADE ONTARIO.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Davetnova
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:28 PM

hey, thats not the real Buck. The real Buck was stand up proud black and white.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Davetnova
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:31 PM

Thi is he Buck and Buddy

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:33 PM

Yeppers!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:34 PM

Hey, was Buddy ever in a Turkish prison?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 03:37 PM

Buckin' Buddy looks like.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: robomatic
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 04:14 PM

BeeDeeBeeDeeBeeDee...BeeDeeBeeDeeBeeDee...BeeDeeBeeDee
BEND OVER - BUCK!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 04:54 PM

William Shatner

If you want to do some comparing, here are a few more:

Buster Crabbe

Gil Gerrard (this guy is barely a blip at Google under his own name. Definitely an under-acheiver once his superhero program went away).

George Reeves

Johnny Weissmuller was Tarzan in the Saturday afternoon movies when I was a kid. I never understood why they tried to remake them.

A bonus: My mother's idea of a hunky heart-throb still looks pretty good by today's standards-- Victor Mature

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 05:00 PM

Yay.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 05:15 PM

Ha! Ha! Get a grip. Shatner is no fraud. He is simply the be-all and the end-all, the Ubermensch, the Master, the Alpha and Omega all wrapped up in one gloriously incomparable package of masculine pulchritude and panache. He rules. Others drool. That's all you gotta know.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 05:28 PM

But, but, but, but--HE WAS BORN IN IOWA!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:04 PM

Good God man..... get..... a grip..... Kirk was......born in Iowa,.... not....... BILL!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:08 PM

OH!

So let me see if I have this right. Shatner who's really Kirk was born in Canada but the character he plays who hasn't really been born yet was born in Iowa.

gnu, I am WITH you. Got it.

BM

BUT, if he hasn't been born yet, then how do they know he was born in Iowa? Huh? G'head. Tell me that.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:16 PM

Poetic license.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:20 PM

But they don't rhyme . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:23 PM

Poetry doesn't have to rhyme... just listen to the great Shatner's works... it doesn't even have to be in pitch... or make sense... it's.... just.... poetry.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:33 PM

For Littlehawk.

And of course all other folks blinded by the 'light of Shatner'.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:35 PM

Many of you will want to bookmark (add to favorites) the site above. It is awesome, and I doubt that mere mortals will be able to ingest it all in only a few weeks. You have been warned.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 06:59 PM

Yes. I love that site. I find that any day on which I am overburdened by stress and wishing I could depart this vale of tears, I simply spend a few quiet minutes at the blessed altar and my spirits are restored.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: gnu
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 07:02 PM

Unbelieveable that there are still those who know not of his true works of art, but, yet, judge him as if he was simply a TV stooge, on a long forgotten planet of poor acting for a generation so self-involved that they know little of even themselves. True art, indeed. And we are the better for it, if only we observe his genius.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 07:07 PM

Fu#kin' A, gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 07:09 PM

Excuse me. Was just a little excited.

Well put, gnu, well put!

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 07:24 PM

It's striking, isn't it, how merely thinking about William Shatner brings out the very best in people, raises them to their highest levels of consciousness and expressiveness?

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 07:31 PM

Yes, Grasshopper . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 07:33 PM

Tranquility.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 07:56 PM

The first one is beautiful. The second one I can't access (access is denied). I find that happens with a lot of the blue clickies for some reason. If Shatner was put in charge of everything, that would not be happening, I can assure you.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: Peace
Date: 22 Apr 05 - 08:23 PM

He actually SHOULD be running a country somewhere.

Subject: RE: BS: Shatner's a fraud.
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Aug 05 - 11:57 PM

Them is fightin word PEACE!!!