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Old July 20th 05, 05:22 PM
Derek Lyons
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The greatest engineer of the Apollo era has gone on to eternal orbit.

James Doohan, 'Scotty', died this morning.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html

Dammit.

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Old July 20th 05, 06:34 PM
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On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 16:22:10 GMT, (Derek Lyons)
wrote:

The greatest engineer of the Apollo era has gone on to eternal orbit.

James Doohan, 'Scotty', died this morning.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html

....Yeah, and what gets me is that as of ten minutes ago, startrek.com
still hasn't mentioned it. Guess their webmaster works late nights too
:-P

OM

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