Does anyone else ever wonder where Nemoy got that cat? Did it just wonder around the studio one day? was it his all along? I mean... it isn't scratching him or being a jerk - *extremely* non-cat behavior! Maybe they drugged it? (it was the 1960s after all, you could still get away with such if it didn't actually hurt the animal)
And why did it get along with Spock (in story)??? Though I guess two beings who don't feel love of human kindness but only cold self-interest and annoyance with others DO have a lot in common... But still... how did it get Spock to *pet* it? Sounds like mind powers to me...
I had a dog like that, years ago. Cute and loveable, but an absolute Sith! I say 'Sith' not because he was evil or anything, just he used his Force powers completely for self-gratification - he could just look at people who did NOT want to pet him, and even if they weren't looking at him, they would start petting and stroking him. A good friend of mine once set there petting him for about 5 minutes before suddenly realizing and asking (somewhat startledly - is that a word?) "Why the fuck am I petting the dog?!?!" Don't get me wrong, he had no problem petting dogs, it is just he had already petted Rascal (the dog) for a while after he arrived and then told him, "ok, that's enough pets for now" - except Rascal didn't agree apparently.
Rascal would also 'crop-dust' those who pissed him off or irritated him... really, REALLY nasty 'clear a room, burn your eyes and nose hairs', silent-but-DEADLY dog farts. Against-the-Geneva-Convention level attacks...
Have you ever wondered about the logic behind the Geneva Convention bans?? I mean, you're at WAR. You know: doing your best to kill the ever-loving FUCK out of the enemy before they kill you... BUT 'not with this, it would be too mean'! WTF??! Isn't that the point? The whole reason you DON'T fight a war - that you go the diplomatic route to deal with (and listen to) some assholes you can't stand, day after day, on and on and occasionally make some sort of concession to is BECAUSE fighting a war IS too 'mean'!! It's hell on Earth; mean, cruel, brutal and wasteful and absolutely no sane individual or group wants anything to do with it. You try to make it less of an abomination and you take away part of the reason for going to such lengths to *avoid* one.
If you ask me (and you didn't), the whole reason we have so MANY wars and conflicts in the modern, 'civilized' world is *because* we have made war less horrible (except on your own troops trying to conform to these rediculous restrictions and DYING instead of maybe surviving just so some pompous asswipe who ISN'T fighting can pat themselves on the back for how civilized they are!).
Oh, sure - you're right; you didn't come hear to listen to this... but I am bored and have nothing else to do since I have no boobies to look at... (or 'SlutEd' to play...)
