The Ellison Bulletin Board

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100219.htm Um, on the subject of, ah ... borrowing other writers's ideas, this is sometimes not as simple as it appears. There's not much new under the sun. Scratch a story, and you'll likely find an antecedent that wouldn't take much stretching to cry foul. I didn't...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm ATC -- Um, no, we weren't discussing the taste of roots, but whether or not there was any red in said dirt veggies. And poking at what the attraction was for a franchise that ran a bunch of TV series and movies and like that and what constitutes "science" ...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100219.htm ATC -- Um, no, we weren't discussing the taste of roots, but whether or not there was any red in said dirt veggies. And poking at what the attraction was for a franchise that ran a bunch of TV series and movies and like that and what constitutes "science" ...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm Kim -- "Are you telling me that in "Arena" you realized right from the start that Kirk had all the makings of gunpowder?" Actually, I was mentally comparing the episode to Fredric Brown's story, "Arena," upon which Gene Coon's episode was based. The origin...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100219.htm Kim -- "Are you telling me that in "Arena" you realized right from the start that Kirk had all the makings of gunpowder?" Actually, I was mentally comparing the episode to Fredric Brown's story, "Arena," upon which Gene Coon's episode was based. The origin...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm Kris -- Um, whatever Roddenberry's vision might have been, Star Trek was space opera and as based in science as Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story. Even leaving off the tech talk about dilithium crystals that Scotty constantly fretted over, and the fact that ever...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100219.htm Kris -- Um, whatever Roddenberry's vision might have been, Star Trek was space opera and as based in science as Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story. Even leaving off the tech talk about dilithium crystals that Scotty constantly fretted over, and the fact that ever...

Name: Steve Perry
Source: unca20100401.htm
Add my congratulations and sympathy for victory and losses, Unk. It's always a mixed bag, idn't?

Um, Kris. A question: Which, uh, one of the Star Trek episodes was it had the science in it? I must have missed that one.

Perry

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Name: Steve Perry
Source: unca20100219.htm
Add my congratulations and sympathy for victory and losses, Unk. It's always a mixed bag, idn't?

Um, Kris. A question: Which, uh, one of the Star Trek episodes was it had the science in it? I must have missed that one.

Perry

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Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm Matthew -- I suspect I have shoes older than you, based on nothing but your view of the venerable newspaper. I would say I suspect those old shoes were less ignorant than you, but that would be rude, so I won't say that. Ignorance is easily cured, if you w...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100219.htm Matthew -- I suspect I have shoes older than you, based on nothing but your view of the venerable newspaper. I would say I suspect those old shoes were less ignorant than you, but that would be rude, so I won't say that. Ignorance is easily cured, if you w...

Name: Stephen Source: unca20100401.htm Mary, Welcome to the wonderful world of Primerica! Yeah, they're all like that. Bad financial products, poorly treated sales reps, and only the top 5% of their guys make even minimum wage off the commissions. You need to be a great seller with no morals to suc...

Name: Stephen Source: unca20100219.htm Mary, Welcome to the wonderful world of Primerica! Yeah, they're all like that. Bad financial products, poorly treated sales reps, and only the top 5% of their guys make even minimum wage off the commissions. You need to be a great seller with no morals to suc...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100401.htm Remember the story in Mamet's Bambi vs. Godzilla? Preminger, shooting *Exodus* when he didn't have the money to pay extras for a crowd scene? So he *charged* them. Put up posters all over town: BE IN A MOVIE - TEN SHEKELS, and got all the extras he needed ...

Name: Steve Perry Source: unca20100219.htm Remember the story in Mamet's Bambi vs. Godzilla? Preminger, shooting *Exodus* when he didn't have the money to pay extras for a crowd scene? So he *charged* them. Put up posters all over town: BE IN A MOVIE - TEN SHEKELS, and got all the extras he needed ...