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    Image of joetato joetato
    12/10/09

    In reply to Predator Motorcycle is the Fiercest Hunter on the Road
    Does Jesse Ventura know about this?
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    12/10/09

    In reply to Predator Motorcycle is the Fiercest Hunter on the Road
    Wow. Yet another way to make a Hayabusa even uglier. Proud.
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    12/10/09

    In reply to Predator Motorcycle is the Fiercest Hunter on the Road
    That is like saying Sesame Street is the toughest neighborhood-- you see the size of the pigeons there?!
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    12/10/09

    In reply to Predator Motorcycle is the Fiercest Hunter on the Road
    Doesn't the Predator know that you're supposed to keep your mouth closed? There's going to be a lot of bugs in those teeth!
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    Image of Mecharine Mecharine
    12/10/09

    In reply to Predator Motorcycle is the Fiercest Hunter on the Road
    Thats an ugly motherfucker.
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    Image of Hamslicer Hamslicer
    12/10/09

    In reply to Predator Motorcycle is the Fiercest Hunter on the Road
    The back fender could have been an Alien skull.
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    Image of FrankN.Stein FrankN.Stein
    12/10/09

    In reply to Predator Motorcycle is the Fiercest Hunter on the Road
    street race! NOW!
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    Vivelafat says Sweep the leg, Johnny. promoted this comment FrankN.Stein was starred FrankN.Stein was unstarred
    Image of joetato joetato
    12/10/09

    @FrankN.Stein: Finally! Someone who makes a GOOD Alien Vs. Predator! Thank you, thank you, thank you! :-D
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    12/10/09

    In reply to Predator Motorcycle is the Fiercest Hunter on the Road
    you can get ticketed for having other people holding up traffic while they gawk at your... o wait it's a giant vagina on the front, yeah i guess that makes sense.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to Watch Hamlet's Soliloquy Recited in the Original Klingon
    I can safely say life no longer has any meaning to me now as I have experienced all there is to experience.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to Watch Hamlet's Soliloquy Recited in the Original Klingon
    This was awesome. The babbling about what play a Klingon would actually be in is irrelevant, it's always fun to see an out-of-character-ish introspective Klingon.
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    Image of Fortunateson1969 Fortunateson1969
    12/03/09

    In reply to Watch Hamlet's Soliloquy Recited in the Original Klingon
    Oh God guys...I'm a dork, but while people are learing fluent Klingon-a language that doesn't exist-CHINA, INDIA, AND THE REST OF THE WORLD ARE TAKING OVER IN ALMOST EVERY ASPECT!

    Do something with your lives! Become engineers, bankers, ect.!
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    EndangeredRed promoted this comment Fortunateson1969 was starred Fortunateson1969 was unstarred
    Image of EndangeredRed EndangeredRed
    12/03/09

    @Fortunateson1969: Oh my god. People enjoy activities and interests outside of career building and world takeover. America is doomed.
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    Image of Harrison_Bergeron Harrison_Bergeron
    12/03/09

    @Fortunateson1969: See that's the beauty of America we can waste our time on useless things like learning Klingon and import all those industrious people from all over the world. Give them citizenship and their triumphs are our triumphs.
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    Image of salymander salymander
    12/03/09

    @Fortunateson1969: Ok first off, there's no such thing as fluent Klingon because it's not a full language. Memorizing a few lines for a three minute video is no different than memorizing ANYTHING ELSE.

    And besides which, this is a scifi website. What exactly are you expecting here?
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    Image of Fortunateson1969 Fortunateson1969
    12/04/09

    @salymander: I know its a sci-fi website. And I've already identified myself as a dork...

    But hey-why don't we put those fantastic linguistic skills to use in learning Arabic or something to help ease the tension in the middle east...or something...idunno...

    I did expect the nerd-rage on this one tho.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    12/03/09

    In reply to Watch Hamlet's Soliloquy Recited in the Original Klingon
    I am such a geek. I want to learn the St. Crispen's Day Speech. And would love to see all of Hamlet in Klingon.
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    12/03/09

    In reply to Watch Hamlet's Soliloquy Recited in the Original Klingon
    Undiscovered Country is the second best Star Trek film....but that shit about '...in the original Klingon' always makes me shudder with embarrassment...there is a big difference between cute/fun pokes at history/culture and plain stupidity...but that line makes no sense at all.
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    Image of comrade_leviathan comrade_leviathan
    12/03/09

    @goldfarb: I concur... second best Trek picture for sure.

    Although I always thought the "original Klingon" line was more of a facetious dig at Kirk than a literal statement of belief that Shakespeare was born of Q'onos.

    I thought it had just been subsequently spun that way for fun.
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    12/03/09

    @comrade_leviathan: I thought the quote was to be more of a reference that Chang read our Hamlet but felt that the same story had already been told on Qo'noS. It's a story about honor, revenge, and killing, which sounds to have some pretty heavy Klingon-esque themes.

    He doesn't think that Shakespeare was a Klingon or that Klingons gave him the idea, but that Hamlet is a very Klingon story, perhaps similar to existing Klingon stories.

    He quotes our version, but maybe, by random chance, the Klingon version was similar enough in that area.
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    12/03/09

    @Platypus Man: Could be. Wouldn't be the first time that Star Trek has posed the improbable concept of parallel evolution!
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/03/09

    @goldfarb: It was a dig at Nazi Germany insisting that Shakespeare was actually German.
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    12/03/09

    @Bill-Lee: Its a dig at the Russians, as Star Trek VI showed the end of the cold war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire just as the real Cold War was coming to an end. Praxis = Chernobyl, Gorkon = Gorbachev, etc. In one of Vladimir Nabokov's books a character refers to Shakespeare in the original Russian.
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    Image of Bill-Lee Bill-Lee
    12/03/09

    @Harrison_Bergeron: I understand the parallels between the Cold War and Star Trek VI. However, the film's director, Nicholas Meyer, took the idea about Shakespeare in the original Klingon from Nazi Germany. There was an article in an SS newspaper that famously made this claim and a article in Soviet paper that later reasserted the German claim.
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    Image of OsDavis OsDavis
    12/03/09

    In reply to Watch Hamlet's Soliloquy Recited in the Original Klingon
    Ah, Hamlet by Sheks'pir: Truly one the galaxy's comedy classics!
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    Image of JimBonJovi JimBonJovi
    12/03/09

    In reply to Watch Hamlet's Soliloquy Recited in the Original Klingon
    i love geekery as much as the next guy but damn, dude.
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