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Posted by Mojo (Member # 536) on :
 
Pizza works well as a Star Destoyer.
 

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :
 
Are you bored, Mojo?

A bagel could work well as one of those Trade Federation battleships, I assume.
 

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :
 
Didn't the Millennium Falcon have its design roots in a Big Mac?

Well, I guess taken together they explain a few things about Lucas. Like his chins, for starters.
 

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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
 
Oh, back when I was a growing boy (sic) I used to see food in starships all the time. Nacelles became hot dogs. Saucer sections became lemon merangue pies. The Defiant looked like a Turtles chocolate. Spacedock would appear in the mushroom stroganof, which I could slurp down with my Voyager spoon section. And don't even start with the oxo cubes..!

Then came the day I tried to eat my Micro Machines, and my parents stopped buying them for me.

Mark

[ January 15, 2002: Message edited by: Mark Nguyen ]
 

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Posted by Mojo (Member # 536) on :
 
If you bite into an English Muffin the right way three times, it sort of ends up looking like a Draconian Mothership from Buck Rogers.
 

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Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
 
Pray for Mojo..

I'm getting worried
 

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Posted by OnToMars (Member # 621) on :
 
Mojo, maybe you should go take a break and watch a movie. A good romantic comedy perhaps.

*suddenly realizes 'a good romantic comedy' is an oxymoron'*

How about "Bridge over the River Kwaii?"
 

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Posted by Mojo (Member # 536) on :
 
I had a Gyro sandwhich tonight and it sort of reminded me of the cave in which the Enterprise found the Pegasus.
 

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Posted by thoughtcriminal84 (Member # 480) on :
 
I dunno why, but everytime I eat a taco, I think of my girlfriend.

Sometimes it happens with tuna fish too. Not so often since she came to live with me, though.

Maybe because I don't eat out as much as I used to?

As for starships, nah. unless you count the cheese cubes you get at cocktail parties. I'm usually so fucking bored at those things that I'm Imagining things to amuse myself...

Hence, the chedder cheese collective, come to assimilate my stomach.

god have mercy on a chronic tee vee watcher, eh?

[ January 15, 2002: Message edited by: thoughtcriminal84 ]
 

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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
 
After drinking too much wine at a party once, the Porcelain Goddess recieved a tribute which looked very much like a Horta. Does that count?

Mark
 

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Posted by Michael_T (Member # 144) on :
 
Okay... this thread is starting to creep me out...

The only time I saw a food as a starship was when I baked a cake modeled after the USS Prometheus in Voyager's Message In A Bottle.
 

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Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
 
Well, the crashed ship in Alien rather reminded me of a chicken wing. . . 8)
 

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Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
 
Hmmm...the closest I've come is the mustard bottle I turned into a starship and started a thread on in the Creativity section (feel free to model it, Mojo ). I also sometimes pretend that my remote control is a starship... but only when The West Wing is on...

[ January 16, 2002: Message edited by: Aban Rune ]
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
I had this HUGE plate of mashed potatoes one night... and suddenly I inexplicably started sculpting out a large object - it looked like a mesa or a mountain.
 

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Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :
 
My sister had a really really crappy toy robot thing... but one of the arms looked like a very cool phaser/disruptor-y kind of thing.
 

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
 
Someone's working too hard on his new book, huh?

My little brother and I once had a massive tabletop battle with mustard and ketchup bottles acting as the capitol ships, salt and pepper shakers as fast cruisers, and various coins ('tails' side) as fighters. The eagle on the quarter reminds me of Space Ghost's ship.

And of course, upside-down plates, bowls, and saucers represent different classes of saucer ships.

[ January 16, 2002: Message edited by: First of Two ]
 

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Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
 
i used to love to use various objects as enemies for my metal die-cast Enterprise-D. I can remember laying down holding the ship over my face and squinting so it looked like it was flying in space... of course those die-cast enterprises were separable, and unbalanced too. THe last time i ever did that i was holding the E-D by one nacelle, when the saucer decided to separate, breaking my glasses with one pound of die-cast escape boat for the crew's families. I still shudder when i see the thing falling in Generations.
 

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Posted by Mojo (Member # 536) on :
 
Of course, the main design inspiration for the Vorlon ship in B5 was a full clove of garlic...
 

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Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
 
Which, of course, explains the encounter suits...
 

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Posted by David Templar (Member # 580) on :
 

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Originally posted by Mojo:
Of course, the main design inspiration for the Vorlon ship in B5 was a full clove of garlic...

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Originally posted by Aban Rune:
I also sometimes pretend that my remote control is a starship...

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Originally posted by Vogon Poet:
Depends, on the likelihood of this Darren guy having X-Ray vision.

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I'm guessing that this is Daren Dochterman, another CGI industry guru. I finally got around to watching the TMP Director's Edition documentary on the effects upgrades - pretty cool stuff, plus it's cool to see Mojo & Daren & the Foundation gang talk about all their work on the project. The best of the three documentaries, IMO.

So tonight for supper, I had cabbage rolls! And each and every one looked like a little photon torpedo casing, dripping with red antimatter leakage...

Mark
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
Speaking of remote-controls... when you open the back for the batteries on mine, it hangs down... and the remote is slightly curved so when you hold it a certain way it looks like those cool Phasers from the TOS movies.

How about clouds, I often have seen 'starships' in the clouds. To date, a Jemmie fighter-bug, a Steamrunner, and a Klingon BOP (off the top of my head)!
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
I wonder if any hospital ships turned up?
 

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Posted by Mojo (Member # 536) on :
 
Just be very careful when you eat at an Italian restaurant... you know what happens when you mix pasta and anti-pasta!

mojo
 

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Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
 
I've always favoured mobile phones that have a slight phaserish look to them. . . And I'll be aiming my latest one at the next person to make a God-awful pun like that! 8)
 

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Posted by Mojo (Member # 536) on :
 
Now there's a good quesiton - why the HELL has no one released a cell phone that looks and behaves exactly like an original series communicator? Technologically, it's clearly possible, and there is no doubt that Paramount would sell out of a limited-edition, very expensive run of them!

Has anyone ever heard of a plan for this? It seems so obvious...

Mojo
 

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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
 
It'd be one hell of a fad... Possibly one that wouldn't be too useful. While one is clearly workable, you'd have to build in a speakerphone function that would make the conversation both clear and receptible to both parties. While this is capable of being done, the battery in a cell phone probably wouldn't make extended conversations very practical.

Then of course, you'd have to incorporate a standard cellphone function, but then that wouldn't be much like a communicator, would it? What we're left with is the *look*, which would indeed be rather cool to have, even if you still have to hold it to your ear.

Y'know, I betcha people have tried doing this at least once over the years. Only in the past year or so have the anntenaeless cells become realy lightweight - maybe it's ime for someone to try again.

Mark
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
I remember seeing remote controls that were 'universal remotes' that were shaped/looked like a TNG phaser.
 

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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
 
I remember that one too - I believe it had a special function you could use to zap commercials, or something like that.

On the same note, a few years back they had a "Tricorder Mk I" which was a practical, working scientific device that could measure certain physical and meteorological parameters. It even looked like a TNG tricorder too, built in a permenant "open" mode. Here:

http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Sparky/tricorder.html

I believe the only thing that sucked about it was its price...

Mark
 

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Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
 
I remember reading an article about it - It was made for farmers or something wasn't it!?!
 

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Posted by Mojo (Member # 536) on :
 
At first I also thought that a speakerphone wasn't practical for a cell, but Nextel phones (very common out here in Southern California) have speaker phones built into them, and they work perfectly.

Someone just needs to do it!
 

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Posted by Mojo (Member # 536) on :
 
"A boiled egg sort of looks like the ship from Mork and Mindy."

- Daren Dochterman
 

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Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
 
I'm laughing about that one, Mojo. Probably because I remember the episode where Mork is trying to get the little eggs to fly and be free. He tosses 'em in the air and they splat on the counter. He hums TAPS as he washes 'em down the sink.
 

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Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :
 
Been meaning to make another addition to this thread. . .

I own a pair of Kickers in blue suede. The part of the instep between the toe and the laces is flat and shaped like a curved triangle. And, on that area is an embossed Kickers logo which looks strangely (even to the type of font) like the place where a starship's name would be.
 

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