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Come on'n get your jamaharon on! There are no real rules—just don't break the weather control network.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

This is the most sci-fi thing ever

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

OMG it's R2D2! I loved him in Star Trek

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Star Track*

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Okay, what's "Oh Smeg" from? I don't know and it drives me mad

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

It's from Red Dwarf, a British scifi comedy from the late 80s-90s. It's their take on fake future swears.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

I figured out what's missing. He needs a shiny H on his forehead.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's short for smegma, i.e. dick cheese.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not, actually. Some people thought it was, but apparently the creators had never heard of smegma before and it was just an unfortunate coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The creators may claim as much, but...

Lexicographer Tony Thorne, in his 1990 Dictionary of Contemporary Slang (ISBN 0-7475-2856-X), reports instances of "smeg" (and derivatives) being used as a term of "mild contempt and even affection" among "schoolboys, students and punks" as early as the mid-1970s — a decade or so prior to the inception of the Red Dwarf phenomenon — and claims unequivocally that the etymology of the term traces back to "smegma".

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Alright, alright, people coming out of the woodwork to tell me about smegma, Jesus. You win the dick cheese argument. 'Gratz.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

And people say this server doesn't have any value!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No, my friend, smegma is and has been a word and it has a meaning.

They chose it as an obscure and disgusting word to use as an insult.

Smegma is the thick, white, cheesy substance that collects under the foreskin of the penis.

So if you're uncircumsized, and have ever not washed your dick in a few days, you're intimately familiar with what smegma is.

It is categorically not a made-up "future swear."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Red dwarf, amazing show

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

Since nobody else bothered to answer: it's from Red Dwarf

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

He's just trying to get to the wormhole back to vulcan

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

He's just trying to get to the Wormhole X-treme™ back to Arrakis

ftfy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Finally! someone who gets it!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Browncoats!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A captains job was simple: Find a phone booth. Find a crew, find some spice, engage

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

This broke my brain a little. Thank you for that.

I might need this on a t-shirt...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This is the one where Smeagol steals the Ring of Fire from the Circus and kills his cousin Dobby by drowning him in the river Styx. Luckily Homer is there to write an Odyssey. Captain Kirk, ringleader of the Circus, fights it out with Finnegan to see who's the best, "'Ey, Jimmy Boy. Where's my Frosted Lucky Charms?" "OMG Spock, that rock monster looks like a pile of Chef-boy-ar-dee. Let's chow down on these spherules while I use my phaser to light this bong."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

it was touch and go there for a minute but this here is a rock solid argument for copyright law.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ohh, I thought that was Farscape!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

No one's ever heard of that.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He's Arnold, Arnold , Arnold Picard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He's the captain, prim and conscience rock hard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

He plays the flute but he's never off guard

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Meh... Planet of the Alien was better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Stick this up as a poster in a sci-fi convention and watch the ensuing brawl.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

And what, three shots disintegrates?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I see Stargate. I upvote.

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