• OptionalOP
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    343 months ago

    Dad: (confused) “You play a SPACE MAN?”

    Leonard: sigh Yes.

      • Flying SquidM
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        123 months ago

        Chief Scientist : I agree with those who say we could launch a pod.

        Lyndon Johnson : A pot?

        Chief Scientist : A POD - a, uh, capsule. Now, we would be in full control of zis pod. It vill go up like a cannonball, and come down like, uh, a cannonball, splashing down into ze water, the ocean, vith a parachute to spare the life of the specimen inside.

        Lyndon Johnson : Spaceman?

        Chief Scientist : SPE-CI-MEN.

        Lyndon Johnson : Well, what kind of spe-ci-men?

        Chief Scientist : A tough one. Responsive to orders. I had in mind a jimp.

        Lyndon Johnson : JIMP? Well what the HELL is a jimp?

        Chief Scientist : A jimp. A-a-a jimpanzee, Senator. An ape.

    • Flying SquidM
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      433 months ago

      While he did die of COPD, he was also 83. A lot of people don’t get that long on this Earth.

      Also, I think his alcoholism was a much bigger factor in problems he had in his life. He would have probably agreed.

    • @Telodzrum
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      -143 months ago

      Make his voice throaty and deep? Hell yeah it did.

      • Flying SquidM
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        133 months ago

        As someone who worked hard to get a deep voice in order to follow his dream of doing VO work- cigarettes aren’t necessary. You just keep practicing. It’s like exercising any other muscle.

  • Flying SquidM
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    273 months ago

    “We love you, son. But you look like Moe Howard with that haircut.”

      • Flying SquidM
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        23 months ago

        I’m guessing his parents would have no idea who that was either.

        • @AngryCommieKender
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          3 months ago

          Probably not, but it would be funny AF if his parents were Whovians, but just didn’t get Star Trek.

          “See, this is good sci-fi son. We don’t know what you’re doing.”

  • @ummthatguy
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    273 months ago

    “I’m sure it’s fun, sweety. You’ll land something better soon” - Nimoy’s mother

    • @pyre
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      43 months ago

      or “I don’t exactly understand it, but I’m happy for you. You deserve this.”

  • @ripcord
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    33 months ago

    Wait, are we still doing “mood”?

    • OptionalOP
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      63 months ago

      As a fellow kid, I assumed.