Yep, Kira and 5MV even get credit on icanhazcheezburger's meme encyclopedia...

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-sor...w-awesome-i-am

:D

I didn't learn this today but I learned it recently... On Farscape, Pilot is voiced by the guy that plays Captain Crais. I watched the entire series and never even began to suspect. IMBD even credits the actor with both but I assumed that had something to do with the body switching episode because it seemed so unlikely that they would be the same actor.

The worst part about that article is despite that fact that the online pseudonym is a female character, and despite the fact that the quoted fiver has "Copyright Carolyn" at the bottom, apparently Kira is a him.

"The line was written in February 2005 by Kira in his rewrite[1] of the 1967 episode “The Return of the Archons.”"

Also, rewrite?

<a href="http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?p=75974">You're</a> <a href="http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1428">getting</a> <a href="http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1422">forgetful</a> <a href="http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1456">in your</a> <a href="http://www.fiveminute.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1145">old age</a>, Nate.

Don't remind me. I should put forth a quote from that episode where Bashir turns thirty, if only I could remember a quote or the title.

"Distant Voices". One of my personal favourites, though like many S3 eps, it's more like TNG than DS9. (Several TNG writers had just come aboard, and they took time to adapt.) It ends with a classic Garak line: "To think, after all this time, all our lunches together, you still don't trust me. There's hope for you yet, Doctor."

I turn 30 this December, so I feel your pain.

Quitcher whinin', young'n. I've been saying I'm 29+ for a few years now.

All y'all can sod off. I was delighted to turn 30; it was like I was officially an adult. I didn't have to take anybody's shit any more, I didn't have to give anybody shit anymore, I was out of the shit business.

Forty is even better. There are sooooooo many things you realize that are just not worth the effort of wasting time and energy on. I mentioned this to a friend and her face lit up with an evil grin, and she said, "Now imagine what fifty is like."

Yeah, well, turning 30 with a career is a bit different than turning 30 and still being in grad school with no hope that you might ever finish.

Sigh. I loved school. I do miss it sometimes.

http://goodcomics.comicbookresources...s-revealed-89/

The same radioactive stuff that turned Matt Murdock into Daredevil created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (at least in the original black-and-white comics)!

On TaleSpin they based Baloo and Rebecca's relationship on Sam and Rebecca's relationship from Cheers! In retrospect the similarities are obvious.

http://www.animationsource.org/tales...s/&numg=109315

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6atcCMmVa8

The Japanese Sailor Moon Christmas album contains the song "When the Saints Go Marching In." What this song has to do with Sailor Moon OR Christmas is beyond me.

On August 10th Michael Ansara died. Not only was he Kang in Star Trek, but the voice of Mr. Freeze in Batman the Animated Series.

The amazing thing I learned today was the joining of these two facts. I had already associated "Ansara" with "Kang" and "Mr. Freeze", but hadn't actually connected the two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9GI...KtQcY&index=19

Mythbuster's own Adam Savage is a fan of Hayao Miyazaki, and even made a No Face (from Spirited Away) costume!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSuUQHoJsuw

Bing Crosby, Donald O'Connor, and Fred MacMurray were once in the same movie! A very young Donald and a younger Fred than I've ever seen, but there they are!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9XT2S1bF4

If you touch a loose fluorescent tube to an active plasma ball, it lights up!

Corn was originally a generic term for any old cereal grain, and even today some British types will say "corn" to refer to whatever the local crop happens to be.

The reason they're called "upper case" and "lower case" is because printers would put the metal type for "lower case letters" in a place that's easier to get at, because they're used more often.

The same guy, Jim Thurman, voiced both Mr. Glitch on Square One and the Teeny Little Super Guy on Sesame Street!

King Abdullah II of Jordan is so much of an awesome ruler, he reportedly dropped bombs on ISIS from a F-16, personally went to a family and swore to avenge the loss of the son whom was burned alive, and did a non-speaking cameo on Voyager.

The episode "The Lights of Zetar" was co-written by Shari Lewis and her husband Jeremy Tarcher. Yes, Shari Lewis as in Lamp Chop's Play-Along. You can't make stuff like this up. Definitely an amazing thing I learned today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_chip_cookie

• Nobody thought to invent the chocolate chip cookie until the 1930s
• Even then, it was probably either an accident or just making do with damaged ingredients
• They were originally known as "Toll House cookies" after the restaurant of origin

Well, not a "fact", but an interesting hypothesis.

One of Wesley's "acting ensign" uniforms looked like this.

Note the three colored stripes: red, yellow, and turquoise. In watching SF Debris' review of "The Battle" again today I noticed these stripes and suddenly wondered if they represent the three divisions of Starfleet: command, science/medicine, and operations/security. Others on the net have also noticed this, and have wondered if this is because Wesley hasn't chosen his division yet.

Today I learned what Charlie Chaplin's voice sounded like.

I'd only seen him in clips from silent movies.
If you want the non-Melodysheep version, here it is.

Today I learned that one of my oldest friends is also a fan of How It Should Have Ended. It's a small web after all.

Malcolm McDowell is Alexander Siddig's uncle!

At least Cracked says so. And when have they ever made a factual error? ;)

I've long been a fan of the joke "If a tree falls on a mime in the forest, does anybody care?" Well, today I discovered that this comes from the comic strip The Far Side. I was and still am a fan of the comic, but the mime strip isn't quite as immediately "That's from the Far Side!"-memetic as other classics like the Thagomizer, or the idiot pushing on a pull door, or Cow Tools, or so forth.

Not really amazing, but I wanted to drop by and say that the Arrowverse is now part of the Westphall Multiverse. I'm glad that people are still adding shows. Yes, according to strict logic the whole thing is unwieldy, self-contradictory, and all-around-impossible, but I still have fun with the idea.

Happy National Science Fiction Day!

I only learned today that Isaac Asimov's birthday of January 2nd is National Science Fiction Day.

I confess to minimal knowledge of "hard" scifi fiction. I own a book of time travel stories, and have read a bit here and there elsewhere, but can hardly call myself a serious fan of the genre. My fandom of Asimov comes from his nonfiction, especially his science essays.

(P.S. My boxes upon boxes of Star Trek novels really don't qualify has "hard" scifi, do they?)

My old h2g2 page still exists!

I thought it was lost years ago when ownership moved to the BBC. I didn't even know that the BBC aren't the owners of the site anymore.

Definitely an Amazing Thing I Learned Today.

Ah, dialup, how I don't miss it.

PS. How many of you remember when I called myself Infinite Improbability on this forum? Well, h2g2 is where I used that name for the first time.

So I'm watching the TNG episode "Transfigurations" and I was surprised that not only was O'Brien's kayaking hobby already present in Season 3, but he wears a wetsuit of similar design. Apparently random diagonal pastel stripes is the kayaking fashion in the 24th century.

Just compare the TNG wetsuit (1990) to the DS9 wetsuit (1997)! Amazing!

Likewise. :)

Also likewise.

You have boxes upon boxes of Star Trek books too, NAHTMMM?

Well, three. They do take up disproportionate space for how often I read them nowadays. I was also agreeing that they aren't hard sci-fi.

Ah yes, I have that problem. I got lots of old TOS books at about 15 cents each at a fundraiser sale a few years ago. I doubt I'll read them more than once each, but I can say I'm getting 15 cents worth of enjoyment from each one.

The Lion is still in his cage at Helen Newman Hall!

Okay, a little background is needed. In 2002 the pranksters at All Too Flat noticed an empty and unlocked speaker cage at their college basketball court. They went to Kmart and bought a stuffed lion to stick into the cage. They also printed up a few posters to put under the cage, the joke being along the lines of a single animal zoo.

It took eight months for the school to find the card with their website on it, because it took that long for them to need to open the cage (to put in a new speaker). With permission from the All Too Flat crew they moved it to the empty cage at the other end of the court. They updated their site every few months for awhile to confirm that the lion was still there, but eventually they graduated, got married, and abandoned the site.

Fast Forward to 2014. Someone read about it and asked on Reddit whether it was still there. Someone confirmed that it was and posted a new picture.

It was a nice thing to discover. I was a major follower of All Too Flat ten years ago when they were still active and still make regular pilgrimages to their corner of the Net. I have mentioned them before, but I'll just repost the Pi Song. YouTube video and lyrics with guitar tabs.

The same guy played Decius and Stonn!

Decius was like the number three Romulan in "Balance of Terror", after Mark Lenard's character (who some call Keras) and the centurion (who some call T'Auethn).

We all know who Stonn was. The actor's name was Lawrence Montaigne. He died on last Friday.

Part of the inspiration of TaleSpin was the manga that later inspired Porco Rosso!

Of course it was also inspired by Cheers, Jungle Book, etc.

One of my favorite children's book illustrators is Robert McCloskey. Not only did he write and illustrate the two Homer Price books, but he illustrated the first four Henry Reed books. (I recommend all of these, by the way)

Well, I've always pronounced his last name "Mac-Closs-Key." Well, today I learned on Antiques Roadshow that it's really "Mc-Cluss-Key." I also learned that his book "Make Way For Ducklings" is the official children's book of Massachusetts.

Hey, "amazing" isn't synonymous with "important"! I was amazed, so I came here to dust off the thread.