roguedawg

Hate to tell you guys but the season has already begun for REAL football.  We are into week 8 of the Canadian Football League season.  You'll hear no complaints about playing in blizzard in October/November (that's home field advantage to our guys!), no complaints about playing in 32F weather in November (that's downright balmy - our players wouldn't even be wearing long sleeve shirts for that - sigh that reminds of the year I was at the Grey Cup game and it was -25C - what a great game)  The game with 3 downs, 110 yard field and NO fair catch (what a wimpy rule!).  CFL rules - NFL

Hey,isn't the CFL that 3rd rate league that allowed American teams in back in the 90's,and as soon as our teams started dominating your title game the CFL kicked them all back out?Oh,man,that was funny

My radio is evil.Everytime I listen to my beloved L.A. Dodgers on the radio they LOOSE!Waahhhhh

John Mellencamp,"Crumblin' down".

I don't like horror movies, so I won't be seeing this movie.

 

Here's my question for those who do like horror movies:

Why do you like to see a movie about a evil, psycho killer, everyone dies but the hero, and then you found out the killer's not dead.  Too much violence, too much gore, not enough substance.  That's my take on horror movies.

 

What's yours? :borg:      :alien:

I'm not sure why I like them.I just like to be scared,I guess.Unfortunately modern horror films don't know how to scare you.They're too busy showing you all the beautiful young actors making out and showing gross-out FX.If you want a good scare you need to watch something with Vincent Price,Christopher Lee,Peter Cushing,Lon Chaney,etc.Now,those gentlemen were masters of the craft,and their films are legendary.The original Bela Lugosi Dracula is one of the finest films ever.I have a copy on DVD with a remastered score.Its just awesome.The only horror related things that still deliver good scares on demand are novels(the good ones,by the great spook authors).

I have the Iraqi bad guy cards.My girlfriend bought them at a novelty store and gave them to me.I didn't know there was a US Heroes set.That's cool.I'll be loking for them.

I'm 31.Don't feel 31 though.I still feel like a tenager(and act like one).

If they insist that you ordered this item and you don't pay for it,it could mar your credit rating.When I was a teen I ordered tons of stuff from mail-order places(CDs,Videos,etc),and didn't pay for them.To this day,more than a decade later my credit rating is still lousy.I can't even get a Texaco gas card!

I've been waiting for this film for almost 20-years.There is a pool amongst my friends and I as to which character walks away from this fight the king of slasher films.Basically the choices are Freddy wins,Jason wins,draw.I have picked Jason,for various reasons.For the most part,I find Jason scarier than Freddy,and I'm reasonably sure I could get the best of Kreuger in my dreams(I usually am aware that I am dreaming,when I am dreaming and have reasonably good control over my dreams...another odd little skill I seem to have).What are your thoughts on the matter?

Let’s just see what we learned about the language

 

Da wIj = My Way

VeqlarghDaq yIjach = Shout at the Devil

 

 

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It's just another Thursday night at Bodacious Classics, a dance club in Southeast Portland.

    

A couple of Imperial storm troopers are chatting with a galactic bounty hunter and a Jedi knight. Waitresses in Federation Starfleet uniforms take drink orders. Five Klingon warriors are mixing with the crowd.

 

Then, suddenly, the roughest, toughest Klingon in the room lets loose.

 

"qqqqab,HomDaq jIqab!"

 

To Earthlings, that translates roughly as "B-B-B-B-Bad to the bone!"

 

It's George Thorogood and the Destroyers, rendered in the mythical Klingon language created for "Star Trek" movies and TV shows.

 

It's your weirdest dream: Klingon karaoke.

 

But it's no dream. It's Jim Colvill -- retirement home cook, erstwhile art student and science fiction fan -- doing what he loves most: transforming himself into Qaolin, a dark-faced, wrinkle-headed, bushy-haired, cloak-wearing, knife-wielding Klingon alter ego with a bad attitude.

 

The best thing about being a Klingon, the enemy of the Federation?

 

"That you can act rude, weird, crude and socially unacceptable," Colvill says, "and people expect it."

 

Colvill is the main event for Klingon Karaoke every Thursday at Bodacious Classics, which is gaining currency as a watering hole for Portland-area aliens. The nightclub also sponsors Bar Wars, a "Star Wars" takeoff, every Tuesday.

 

Colvill sang his first Klingon karaoke two years ago at the Norwescon science fiction convention in Seattle. He sat down with his Klingon language books and translated "My Way," a karaoke favorite.

 

"I went up there and floored everybody," he says.

 

For the past year, Colvill has brought his act to Bodacious Classics, singing not only "Da wIj" ("My Way"), but also such Klingon classics as "VeqlarghDaq yIjach" ("Shout at the Devil").

 

How Colvill ended up behind the microphone is a tale of coincidences involving two Portland men, Clyde Lewis and Ralph McKee.

 

Lewis hosts a weekend talk show on KOTK radio, called "Ground Zero," which focuses on all things bizarre, from the paranormal to conspiracy theories. He's also appeared on the TV shows "Sightings" and "Strange Universe" and played the voice of Toxie in the 1999 sci-fi film "Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part 4."

 

McKee owns Bodacious Classics, a club that featured an oldies theme until repair work on the Ross Island Bridge in 2000 and 2001 began to hurt the Southeast Powell Boulevard business. Since then, McKee has been taking his son's advice to convert the dance club to a "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" theme to draw a younger crowd and replace his lost business.

 

Lewis and McKee were introduced to each other by an advertising salesperson for KOTK.

 

"What if I was to tell you I could bring a Klingon here, and he could sing standard karaoke songs in Klingon?" Lewis says he asked McKee.

 

McKee couldn't resist.

 

Neither could Colvill.

 

Lewis had known Colvill from bumping into him at the Ross Island Grocery & Cafe in Southwest Portland's Corbett neighborhood, where both men live. They both turned out to be "Star Trek" fans.

 

"This is your quest," Lewis told him. "You are to be the next Klingon rock star."

 

Lewis also slapped on a latex forehead, took the Klingon identity K'tok and agreed to host the Thursday night events.

 

With Colvill, aka Qaolin, on center stage, Bodacious Classics' 1950s memorabilia is gradually disappearing, replaced by big-eyed, big-headed aliens, R2-D2 units and autographed pictures of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. The building itself has begun to bristle with jutting, odd-shaped black fixtures, giving it the look of a Borg spaceship.

 

In between Qaolin's numbers, storm trooper Jerry Gordon sings karaoke in English, and McKee plays dance music.

 

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, customers often show up not only as "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" characters, but also as knights, fairies, werewolves and vampires, among others. An imposingly tall Darth Vader roams the scene, chatting with Princess Leia and Chewbacca the Wookiee. Occasionally, a set of twins dressed as Borgs shows up. The bar once attracted a full crew wearing space shuttle gear.

 

Every Thursday features a science fiction movie at 7 p.m., with Klingon karaoke beginning after 9 p.m. The second Thursday of every month features not only Klingon karaoke, but also a UFO discussion group that addresses such topics as alien sex.

 

"These people didn't have any place they could go to," McKee says. "It's interesting. It's an underground society that I didn't know was there."

 

Colvill has loved the Klingon characters best of all since encountering them in 1995 at a "Star Trek" convention.

 

"I think it was probably the amalgamation of Viking, samurai and biker," Colvill says. "It appealed to my playful side."

 

Playful indeed. In 1999, shortly after he lost a job, he dressed in full costume, stood at the west end of the Ross Island Bridge and held a sign that said, "Will Work for Gagh." Gagh is serpent worms, a popular Klingon food.

 

Colvill has spoken Klingon for about five years but doesn't consider himself fluent.

 

"I still have to go back to the Klingon dictionary," he says.

 

The Klingon language, invented by linguist Marc Okrand for "Star Trek" movies and TV shows, is said to be among the fastest-growing languages on the planet. Klingon translations are under way on the Bible, the Book of Mormon and Shakespeare, among others.

 

On a recent Thursday night, however, there is no Shakespeare in evidence. Instead, Qaolin the Klingon belts out "Indian Reservation," "Born to Be Wild," "Shout at the Devil," "Over the Rainbow" and, of course, "My Way."

 

"I'm here," he says, "to make your day a little more surreal."

 

 

 

 

 

Master Q

StarTrek_Master_Q@yahoo.com

If Klingons have no devil in their culture,how can they have a word for Devil?This Breen is confused....

Tonight was my first time visiting the Klingon Embassy.I'm in,if you decide to keep this forum running.I tried to learn Klingon on my own once,using the Klingon Dictionary and got nowhere.I'll give it another shot.

Here's mine....I wrote it, and played all the music, and did all the backup vocals.

 

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/6/independ...owcasemusic.htm

 

Its the second song listed on that page.

That was sweet.

Can't say I know you that well yet,but it seems to fit your look.

I would never date a woman with Seven or T'Pol's bad attitude,superiority complex,need to criticize everything.Or a Deanna Troi type who over-analyzes everything.She would drive me nuts.Jadzia is nice.A little more outgoing and energetic than I am.Kira would be closer to my preferred personality type ,Intelligent,beautiful,a bit more introverted than Jadzie,grounded in her faith and beliefs.Kira Nerys strikes me as the type of woman a guy would have to really get to know before she would ever consider a relationship with him.I like that.I'm a little like that,too.I need to know a woman quite a while before I feel comfortable enough around her to think about relationships.So,no I don't like Seven or T'Pol.I do like Jadzia,Kira,Hoshi(I don't know much about her character,but I like her for some of the same reasons as Kira).Maybe Ezri....but she's a counselor,too.I dunno.

I remember seeing Dr.Selar and being smitten with her immediately .I used to wonder why so many women were crazy about Spock.Now I know.Its the Vulcan ears!They drive you crazy!

Earlier today,just out of curiosity I did a search for other Star Trek message boards and registered at a few.I can't believe the stupidity of some of them.One of them refused to allow anyone without x-amount of posts to have an avatar(and then,after you made the required number of posts--which was a high number--the moderator(s) would 'consider' allowing you to have an avatar of their choice).I mean,if having an avatar makes the Trek experience more fun for the person,what's the deal?Another site had an absolute ban on touchy off-topic subjects like politics,religion,and homosexuality(and this ban was on their off-topic board!),as if the people posting were children and incapable of discussing these subjects(I thought startrek.com had a lock on those types).I could go on and on,but the one that really ticked me off was one in which some jerk moderator posted a huge thread on how TOS sucked,the special effects were lousy,the stories were unintelligent,the acting was subpar,how embarrasing it was,how much Roddenberry sucked,etc,etc,and ended it by stating that Berman and Braga,not Gene,were solely responsible for Trek's successes and modern popularity. :huh: I had to come back here.The vein in my neck was about to pop.I guess that'll teach me not to go elsewhere when I want to discuss Trek with civilized beings.

:blink: :huh: B) B)

I wish Martha Hackett had been allowed to remain on the show as a Bajoran,and they picked another of the Maquis to be outed as a Cardassian.I was a big fan of her Bajoran persona and then they had her go all psycho....oh,well....

I hate the zillions of humanoid aliens on Star Trek!I've always wanted more non-humanoid aliens.The more unlike us,the better!Enough with the pointed ears and bumpy noses.Give us some sentient mud puddles,or some aquatic-type creatures.Anything so long as it doesn't look like you or me.CGI is great.

The only Star Trek actor I've ever met in person was Jonathan Frakes of TNG(but in the spirit of this topic,he did also appear on Voyager!).He was a really nice guy,very accomodating to his fans.

Great design.But I think I'm an explorer at heart,not a fighter.I like science vessels like the Oberth,Nova,etc.Of course,if you happen to have a pack of screaming Breen on your rear end,you'd want to be on the bridge of a firecracker like Prometheus.

Uh,Yeah,I think Seven Of Nine left Chakotay and is even now trying to find a way into Earth's past to the year 2003 in order to find her one true love....roguedawg!

The only thing besides the episodes/movies I've collected have been the books and the little starships that micro-machines produced in the 90's.But I lost most of them when I moved last.That really ticked me off,as I probably will never be able to replace those little ships.And I had them all,too.Darn!

Thanks for the suggestion starsinmyeyes,I'll give it a try.

I just finished Stephen King's "Eyes of the Dragon" and "The Dark Tower:The Gunslinger".Last night I started "The Dark Tower:The Drawing of the Three",should be finished with that by Sunday,when I'll start in on "The Dark Tower:The Wastelands".I read a few of these books as a kid in Jr High and High School,but when Stephen King said he would never finish the series I got so mad I didn't finish reading the set.But,now that he has had a change of heart,I've decided to re-read the series.

I am also reading Ray Bradbury's "From the Dust Returned",Mark Twain's "Roughing It",and Dr.Michael M. Baden's "Unnatural Death:Confessions of a Medical Examiner",that last one has some really disgusting parts,but its also sort of interesting.

For years and years and years I loved blue...any shade of dark blue.But for the past year or so I'm finding myself attracted to the color yellow....don't know why.

Nope.No twins in...Ouch!!!(brain freeze,dang icee...!!!)No twins.My best friends are twins,though....ouch.....