Assless chaps? Up here in the Gay Mountain State [VT], they call 'em Butt Windows.

Weren't Mark II Phaser Rifles introduced in .. the first episode? Just sayin'

Mark II Phaser Rifles introduced in .. the first episode?

Yes, I own three of them.

Trying to remember if I've ever seen a pair of chaps that weren't assless... I think they're all pretty much that way. You would think I would know, but I'm not really into the gay rodeo scene.

Interesting story at http://www.bareknucklepolitics.com today, check it out.

Someone tell me that this was caught on film. Please? It's right up there with the "Lightning bolt!" moment.

Again, I can comfort myself that, no matter how many truly assinine things I've done, at least I wasn't caught doing them on film.

Assuming chaps ARE assless, else they would be pants, this begs some questions:

1. Where did the phrase: "this chaps my ass" originate?

2. Would an assless chap, find himself, hapless?

The mark ii phaser rifle was introduced in the second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before." I don't know if they aired it as the first episode or not. Probably. But it was a pilot before it was an episode.

And there was a flamethrower. Don't forget the flamethrower.

Hey, what ever happened to that picture you used to have up of the Mad Max car? That thing was fuckin badass.

Don't confuse the "assless chaps" with a "chapped ass."

They are easily distinguished by the amount of redness involved.

David, yes, the original Star Trek pilot ("The Cage") wasn't shown on the air...until they made the 2-part episode "The Menagerie" and used the original pilot as footage. The first pilot that was aired was actually the second one that was filmed; studio execs liked the first pilot but thought it was too "cerebral" for the public (they also didn't like a chick being second-in-command), so they ordered a second one.

Yay, Star Trek trivia.

Later,
bbeck

You know, I actually knew the phaser-rifle was introduced in that early epsidode (the secone?) where the guy's eyes turned white

That's why I specified "Mark II," hoping that would keep you guys off my tits.

I guess that gamble didn't work.

Ace, if you don't want folks here piping in with useless TV trivia, you should reference Desperate Housewives or Melrose Place or something. Bringing up TOS is just ASKING for it.

Later,
bbeck

Actually, Melrose Place is off limits too. Dave @ GR left a comment in one of my threads talking about how he used to watch that show.

So it's the Housewives or nothing. Although, admitedly, I know way more about Teri Hatcher than I should. Not as much as I would like, but as much as the restraining order will let me.

Do we actually know that these guys were carrying "fake machine guns", and not a fake sawed-off shotgun and a fake large-caliber revolver? I mean, consider the source. Do we trust ABC to know a fake machine gun when it sees one? I think we do not.

GAH! You guys are pegging the Star Trek geekometer!

Almost makes you want to be the new guy in the red shirt.

So it's true. Only cockroaches and geeks survive nuclear war. :(

"Only cockroaches and geeks survive nuclear war."

Hey, I can live with that.

Later,
bbeck

Seriously, how was the tanker truck driver supposed to know that the crazed movie fans were just kidding? Especially with gas prices the way they are...

A few weeks ago, right after gas prices first passed $2.00 a gallon here in the Midwest, I was fueling my car at a local QuikTrip. The guy next to me was filling up his brand-new Chevy full-size 4X4 pickup with dual tanks, and he was staring morosely at the readout on the pump, which was rapidly approaching the sort of numbers you tend to see only in government spending bills. The look on the guy's face was priceless...

When he noticed I was looking at him - and how much he was spending to fuel up - sixty dollars and still going - the Chevy driver, apropos of nothing, started quoting the opening monologue from The Road Warrior: "...On the roads it was a white-line nightmare. Men began to feed on men, waging war for a tank of juice..." We both cracked up laughing.

Of course, if gas prices get much higher, road piracy may start to look like a viable option...

...but no matter how desperate I get for gasoline, there's no way you're going to get me into anything like Vernon Wells' infamous Road Warrior Assless Chaps.

Come to think about it, mohawks really don't appeal to me, either...

Y'all need to hit a biker rally...it's the young, tight-assed babes wearing the 'assless chaps.'