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If you accompanied Captain Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy down to an alien planet and you wore a red shirt, the chances are you would not be beaming up.
Matt Bailey of SiteLogic analyzed the numbers and found 13.7% of Kirk's crew died during their three-year televised mission, and that 73% of those deaths were Red Shirts.
Here is someone's YouTube homage to the red-shirts.
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Matt Bailey of SiteLogic analyzed the numbers and found 13.7% of Kirk's crew died during their three-year televised mission, and that 73% of those deaths were Red Shirts.
Here is someone's YouTube homage to the red-shirts.
I told that joke to #1:
ReplyDeletehttp://drstephencw.blogspot.com/2005/04/jack-bauer-and-fifty-guys.html
That's a good one. Going on a mission with Jack is a little like climbing a mountain with Jim Wickwire...somehow he always made it back, but his climbing partners? They're the red-shirts of mountaineering.
ReplyDeleteFunny, I must have read this on your blog at one time, but I didn't remember...
/jack