WxMurray

I actually thought it was Murray, but oh well.

Well, that's who I was shooting for. You folks must not know me that well.

I noticed something while reading through various Garfield comic strips this week.

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Remind you of anyone? :wacko:

"New York: We have two football teams...in New Jersey."

I swear I saw this exact poll somewhere else.

LOL I did, and it was on another forum by you WXmurray.

Gee, now how could that have happened? :wacko:

Did you get the right answer this time? :o

New York To Drop 'The Big Apple' For Another Nickname

 

NEW YORK -- Forget "The Big Apple." New York now wants to be known as "The World's Second Home."

 

The city has filed an application to trademark the slogan, "The World's Second Home," giving the city exclusive rights to use it to promote business and tourism.

 

The phrase is likely to come up often as New York makes its push to host the 2012 Olympics.

 

If application No. 78484751 is accepted, the city would have exclusive rights to attach the phrase to a list of more than 200 products and services, according to Thursday's editions of the New York Times.

 

Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a self-made billionaire, has been much more aggressive about filing for city trademarks and patents than his predecessors. One such application includes licensing the phrase "Made in NY."

 

In the 1970s, the New York Convention and Visitors Bureau officially gave New York City the moniker "The Big Apple." Around the same time, the state took on the "I (Heart) NY" slogan.

Which nickname do you prefer?

Murray yawned as he waited in the transporter room. He had a few moments off duty and had made a beeline for the transporter. He had come aboard the Reaent with few of his possessions, just the important stuff: toothbrush, comb, uniforms, and things of that nature. Starfleet had his stuff shipped to Starbase 173 when the orders to proceed there came through.

The signal of communications contact with the Starbase came on. Murray opened a com link with the station’s quartermaster. “Quartermaster, this is Ensign Wimbley Murray on the Reaent. Do you have a package or two for me?”

“Murray, huh? Let me check.” A pause. “No, I’m afraid not.”

“Are you sure? Starfleet said they'd send my personal effects via Federation Express to the starbase.”

“Federation Express, huh? They might as well have sent it by Pony Express. For some reason, those packages don’t get mixed with the others. More like dumped on the floor in a pile.” The QM stepped into a side room to look for Murray’s packages.

Murray looked around and yawned again. He hadn’t been sleeping well. Those beds just didn’t do it for him. He needed more. And more was in his package of possessions. If his stuff wasn’t here, he knew he would have to go to sickbay for sedatives. As nice as the people are in sickbay, he’d rather forego the sedative and lollipop for his things.

The QM returned to the com with two large boxes on an antigrav dolly. “Here we go. Back corner, with our shipment of phaser rifles that we’ve been looking for for two months. Beam them over when you are ready.”

Murray looked at the transporter chief. “Energize.”

Murray smiled and looked at the boxes as the materialized on the transporter pad. “Thank you very much.”

“Not at all. Starbase quartermaster out.”

Later, back in his quarters, Murray began to unpack. His spartan quarters were soon going to feel like home. Murray first dumped everything on his bed. He knew he’d never finish putting his things away unless he had a reason to. Not being able to sleep was a reason.

Murray began to go through his stuff: a picture of his parents, a box of tissues, his model starships….

“Ah! This is what I need.” He removed the current pillows from his bed and replaced them with his own. He pulled out a blanket, one very special to him. It belonged to his great-grandfather and Murray received it when he had died. Then Murray saw something even more important to him. He picked it up and smiled.

“Now I can sleep like a baby.” He put his teddy bear on his pillow and proceeded to put the rest of his personal effects away.

UPDATED TO REFLECT SIMMED EVENTS.

Yeah, I didn't notice the green turtleneck until after I posted the image.

The dark green turtleneck denotes the security division for that era.

Well there were gonna be scenes with riker and troi aboard the ship so there might be several designs they made.

Well, depending on what we see in Enterprise's finale, we might see what class it is then.

Yes, that's the Prometheus. It is called "multi-vector assault mode". Each part of the ship separates into three independent parts, all will full starship capabilities, including weapons and warp drive.

no you can't, thats something wx murray would say...

Yes, but not only am I awesome, I a magnificent, wonderful, gorgeous,...I think you get the picture.

Hey, could you add a "!" at the end of mine please? It's sort of nitpicky, but the lack of punctuation bothers me.

Well the starships fly by computer with input from the pilot...

 

The whole fly-by-joystick thing in Insurrection was just weird...there's no way a stick could control a dozen RCS thrusters and impulse engines more efficiently than the ships computer.

I think that the manual steering column still interfaces with the computer for that. Actually, the steering column may give better response time. Instead of pressing buttons to tell the computer what to do, you just move the joystick.

In any case, I thought it was pretty cool.

My character pretty much is me. He is a very gorgeous, very magnificent guy. Just like me. :P

I might join, but honestly. As much as I poke my nose on these forums time to time *grabs the free donut*, it would take something dramatic to hauil me out of retirement.

Hey! Who's handing out donuts?

Actually, this is not entirely true. During one academy sim, I had the Lo'Ami character slowly turn into a woman. It confused the heck out of anyone who wasn't paying attention.

I remember that one. I seem to recall that I was the one who started that one off, but I could be wrong.

I would love to apply as a Marine. However, I don't want to start on the Agincourt and then go on leave a month and a half later for four months when the semester ends.

All right I got bored so I'll tell ya, the two fingered salute originated during Britain's wars with France. A British longbowman was a valuable soldier, it took years of training to perfect their skills. Whenever one was captured by the French they would cut off his middle and pointer fingers. Without these fingers the bowman was useless, he couldn't pull back the string on a bow ever again. The two finger salute was a way of proudly and cheekily saying "Hey! I still have my two fingers! You haven't got me!".

 

Now it's basically the British way of flipping the bird. :P

 

*closes the tome of knowledge with a thump*

Awesome. Thanks for the info. :D

It's not a bad bridge, but it looks too bright to me.

A medal to anoyone but vatric (who obviously knows) if they can tell me where the two fingered salute comes from. :P

I don't know where it comes from but I like it.

Myself, I would say that the MACOs are an early form of Marines, although we never see anyone like them anywhere else. I would think that the Hazard Team from the Star Trek Elite Force games would be considered Marines.

I've thought about it. I haven't really decided yet. Given homework and other stuff, I probably won't, but there's a chance I might.

Watching TV sounds good.

no the deleated scene chair is definetly not the same as archers. That one is a big huge rounded thing. Archer's chair came from a porche, serously, thats where they got the prop.

It was modified some, but I still think they're the same.

Of course, there is supposedly a Captain's yacht on the Galaxy-class starship, yet we have never seen it.

Set pieces get reused all the time in Star Trek. It's a cost-saving measure. The President's office in Star Trek VI was a redress of Ten Forward. The helm and nav consoles on the Enterprise-B are the helm and ops consoles from the Enterprise-D. A new captain's chair being installed on the Enterprise-E bridge in a deleted scene from Nemesis has been installed as Captain Archer's new chair. I could go on forever, but I think you get the point.

Anyway, it would be cool to have lighting like that at home.

Yeah, that's the aeroshuttle for Voyager. A theory as to why it wasn't used is that the Voyager left on the Badlands mission before the shuttle was installed and so there was just filler section of hull plating in it's place.