Posted: 8/3/2007 1:59:05 PM EDT
Anyone remember Blue Cream Nehi soda? Talk about good!!!  SO was the grape and the orange... I was drinking some coke that my wife found in a little ten ounce non contour bottle with the foam label and got to thinkin'... Man I miss that stuff... |
You probably never noticed, while watching Star Trek, that James Doohan (Scotty) always went to great lengths to obscure his right hand. Grab a DVD, and watch how he sits when he's in the captain's chair. Watch how he clinches his right hand in a fist when he's standing with his arms to his side. That's because "Scotty" is missing his middle finger (an incongruity, perhaps, in a futuristic setting). Well, that handicap, so cleverly hidden for years, is a direct result of that momentous day in 1944 that changed the course of the 20th century. Lt. Doohan successfully led his Canadian troops onto Juno Beach and pushed inland to establish the best possible gun position (along the way Doohan shot two German snipers, never knowing if he killed them or just injured them). A position was secured and command posts were established, but not all Germans between the beach and their position had been captured.
He had three bullet holes in that one finger. He managed to walk to the regimental aid post, despite also having four bullets in his left leg. But as the doctor was removing those slugs, Doohan noticed a hole in his shirt. He had been shot in the chest. Miraculously, though, that bullet had been deflected by the sterling silver cigarette case he kept in his right shirt pocket — the one his brother Bill had given him when Jimmy was best man at his wedding. Four inches from his heart. |
I have watched almosy every episode of the original Star Trek and all the movies and I never noticed. He did a good job on hiding it. How is Radars left hand deformed?? Watched M*A*S*H all the time, too. |
