From: An Anirion <anirion@ugcs.caltech.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [rec.humor.oracle.d] Re: Hello, hello...is this thing on?
Date: 23 Oct 1997 14:47:10 +0200

Subject: Re: Hello, hello...is this thing on? 
From: Rich Churcher <rich.churcher@usa.net>
Newsgroups: rec.humor.oracle.d

Rick The Notes Guy Dickinson wrote:
> 
> Sharing the wisdom of the ages with those of us reading
> rec.humor.oracle.d, The Great and Powerful Danny Sichel
> <eds7466@umoncton.ca> wrote:
> 
> >You can't break the laws of physics so you might as well drink beer,
> >You have to be a little drunk to be a Starfleet engineer...
> >
> >Montgom'ry Scott was a drunken sot who was...
> >
> >Sorry, I'm mixing my versions.
> 
> I've never heard the Star Trek version.  Any chance of hearing the
> whole thing?  By email would be fine, if you don't want to clutter the
> Newsgroup.

You obviously don't know your Monty Python.  To paraphrase <ahem>:

Montgomery Scott was a drunken sot who was very rarely stable,
Captain Kirk went a bit berserk with a hip flask and a ladle,
Data calmed on a keyboard armed with hallucinogenic cable,
Mr. Spock, of Vulcan stock, could drink you under the table...

hmmmmmmm... On second thoughts, perhaps I'd better stop there.

Cheers (here's mud in yer eye),