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The two part episode "The Menagerie" were episodes 11 and 12 from the first season and recycled footage from the pilot and allowed them to turn out enough episodes in the short time they were given, due to only needing to shoot limited additional content to fill the time.

I'm sure plenty of Trekkies and Trekkers have already set upon you, @olbermann.bsky.social, but why not one more?

Referring to an ailing Trump as "Captain Pike from the Pilot of Star Trek" is treknically incorrect.

This is what he looked like in the pilot. He's the one on the left.

And voici!

One day later, and I'm in the Old Age Gamers Club, and I've got my little shield flair in the game now.

It cracks me up that 40 years later, I've still got a hobby working around Microsoft's machinations.

Old Age Hackers FTW.

Undeterred, I figured out that it was in fall of 2020 that MS removed the functionality from the apps and made clubs an "XBOX exclusive" feature.

So I tracked down version 2006-0624-0047 from July of 2020, fired up an Android emulator, logged in with my MS credentials, and...

This is the flair to indicate that you were part of an online club community.

The problem is that five years ago, as part of a "feature realignment," MS decided to remove the ability to join and participate in clubs from the mobile and PC apps.

You now had to use an XBOX.

I was getting envious of some of the flair that Forza Horizon 5 players were sporting online.

I've got the VIP crown, which wasn't an achievement, and I've got a few different badges earned that I can opt from, but there was a shield that some folks had that I couldn't get.

This one took a bit of upgrade tuning to the Reliant and a handful of attempts to achieve.

No wonder only .72% of gamers accomplish this.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to land an airborne three wheeler launched from sandy dirt hills without ending up turtled or worse?

Anderson: What's got 4 eyes and cant see?

Ward: What?

Anderson: Mississippi

93 Places to Holiday Without Running Into RFKj.

From a Man in the Streets compilation of 100 years ago.

"In my opinion, he's the south end of a northbound horse."

Now there's an expression that needs reviving!

Jay has always been an unfunny person's idea of what a comedian is. He buried Carson's legacy.

His claim to fame was that he did more performances per year than any other comedian. Never quality, only quantity.

Jay Leno, you are lower than whale excrement resting on the ocean floor.

Night after night, your unfunny jokes at my cousin's expense helped create the slut-shaming hell that she inhabited for years. And the water cooler replays I endured at work the next day.

Get bent, Jay.

This is one franchise that I have never partaken of.

I think it’s time.

But, thanks to that subscriber guarantee, even after the project was ended, it took the lawyers another 30 years to get the films to the public. And a few more for me to find it.

Thus, only a small number of people ever saw any of the films in their theatre runs. To enhance the value of the subscriptions, subscribers were guaranteed that the films would never be shown on TV and never released to the public. The experiment was abandoned after 2 years.

IF you purchased a subscription to the AFT series THEN you could buy tickets to any of its films. (Exceptions were made for movie critics and members of award-granting organizations, such as the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which awards the Oscars.)

Q. How is it that I've never seen The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) until now?

A. It was part of the American Film Theatre series, an experiment in marketing films (based on plays) that would not otherwise have been able to get financing...

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales 1979

Totally missed it when I was a kid, like so many well placed cartoon jokes.

Porky can't quite get the "don we now" verse finished, so Bugs has their resident Southerner, Foghorn Leghorn fill in, but he belts out "our GRAY apparel." TWICE

Police Chase Chopper Commentary Winner of the Day

Stu Mundel of @foxla.bsky.social

"Oh look, there's Batman behind him," *switches to Michael Keaton whisper voice* "I'm Batman."

20, 20, 24 hours to go
I wanna be sedatious

One of the side effects of living with someone working for one of the top companies in the Fortune 500, is that occasionally some topics are off limits for reasons.

Ex.

Me - Hey, about that CEO and HR head at the Coldplay concert...

Her - Yeah, I can't talk about that...

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And for the record, and the kids that don't know, I've only edited ONE thing in that photo.

Thank you, Universe!

Signed,

Microsoft Paint and (((BeerRabbi)))

Cheers!

Meant to do this earlier in the week. I'm sure many people beat me to first post.

Nevertheless...

50/50 chance that I'm in the reflection of the window of Swan Oyster Depot. My neighborhood Walgreens is directly across the street.

Backyard of the Mad Dog in the Fog 20+ years ago; the bartender, a big tattooed Scotsman who took breaks from bartending to tour with @qotsa-official.bsky.social, heard his little brother say "conversate."

Pinned against a wall, he told him he'd beat the shit out of him if he ever heard it again.

*New to me video, the video itself is four years old.

YouTube video by Slope's Game Room (Video Game Documentaries) The Strike Series: The Complete History (DESERT, JUNGLE, URBAN, SOVIET, NUCLEAR)

Great new video from @slopesgameroom.bsky.social about the classic Strike video game series and the origin of the franchise from the days when IBM were plotting to launch a *gasp* PERSONAL Computer.

(Editors Note to VO talent; "heresy" isn't pronounced "hearsay.")

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMXu...

Literally heard a professional YouTuber trying to get back to their main point with the phrase, "but I digest."

And I...just...died a little bit.