{"id":49741,"date":"2015-03-04T13:08:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T20:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/live-long-and-prosper-eh.html"},"modified":"2015-05-12T05:43:15","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:43:15","slug":"live-long-and-prosper-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/live-long-and-prosper-eh.html","title":{"rendered":"Live long and prosper, eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To heck with the (admittedly polite) request that people stop making the figure on Canadian $5 look like Spock. I think it&#39;s cool.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Rick Gary<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/m.torontosun.com\/2015\/03\/03\/star-trek-fans-told-to-stop-spocking-5-bill'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/sMm7zE1WJ5ctEGJ8eGE23XBgZ4sks0XYp4v1p2zFMzA9PlskRQ4m3swng6ovd-R_D1mrMA97uwIU28zRQnfBu3C1B_VmeD94lK6TKAF5ULG1Tyq3ajpn37WkVE9naFiieydh41wY5pRlOvFcHs1EK2vtRmw8hrMZ9N69K0q3OMt2rf05WXKkV3jZwvvmaqf9wSdqB3Hieg02Sxogk6JgxSGzeHziRtnTVWue64E=w120-h120' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/m.torontosun.com\/2015\/03\/03\/star-trek-fans-told-to-stop-spocking-5-bill'>&#8216;Star Trek&#8217; fans told to stop &#8216;Spocking&#8217; Canadian $5 bill | Entertainment | Toronto Sun<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nBank of Canada executives have urged Star Trek fans to stop a campaign to deface currency as a tribute to late actor Leonard Nimoy. A drive was launched in the aftermath of Nimoy&#8217;s death on Friday to ink the features of his most famous character, Star Trek&#8217;s Mr. Spock, on five dollar bills &#8230;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Qu3gXnyG9Kx'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To heck with the (admittedly polite) request that people stop making the figure on Canadian $5 look like Spock. I think it&#39;s cool. Originally shared by +Rick Gary: &#8216;Star Trek&#8217; fans told to stop &#8216;Spocking&#8217; Canadian $5 bill | Entertainment | Toronto Sun Bank of Canada executives have urged Star Trek fans to stop a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/04\/live-long-and-prosper-eh.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Live long and prosper, eh?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-tv-star-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38943,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/01\/space-the-pixar-frontier.html","url_meta":{"origin":49741,"position":0},"title":"Space: The Pixar Frontier","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-Oct-13 9:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yyyyeah, I'd watch this.(\"Captain, I calculate the odds are 1,347,295.37 to 1 that this will never actually happen.\")The trick would be finding the right balance between ironic humor and actual drama. \u00a0That, I'd love to see.(h\/t +George Wiman)Reshared post from +Veronica BelmontI want this to be real. 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