It is clearly a reference to Cpt. Jean Luc Picard’s standard command to the replicator on ST:TNG

dude. Totally out of line. I get it. picard is my freaking hero.

Replicator. Picard. Absolutely.
How much did we win?

“so give your ID Card to the border guard, now your alias says you’re Captain Jean Luc Picard of the United Federation of Planets but he don’t speak English anyway.”

I managed to both answer your question and add a reference to a Refreshments song!

Sweet victory : )

Picard is the reason I drink the stuff. I hope it will make me sound like him. “Make it so.”

Your wife should argue that the contest is rigged. Those who know the answer are justifiably proud (cough . . .nerds) and hence eager to display their knowledge. Those who do not know the answer (cough . . . me) do not want to put their ignorance on display. But, since I am for the underdog (your wife) I cry “foul, unfair contest!”

i think it is from obadiah.

Well, I’m going to score one point for my sister friend Jenell. As much as as I love Patrick Stewart (great actor, handsome and sexy), I actually didn’t put it together until I just read the above. I remember him saying that now as I look back but being more of a “Voyager” girl, myself than into the “Next Generation” (which I hardly ever watched), it’s not surprising I didn’t “get it” until now. I just thought the “tea. Earl grey. Hot” thing was just you being you.:-) I will take this as a good sign that there’s still good hope for me to not falling into total “geekdom”.

The fact that Jason put a picture of the replicator next to his post shows what a cheater he really is!

Thank you Ray for showing yet another way my husband “rigged” the contest!

I can say with absolute truthful nerdiness that I didn’t see the picture until after having answered.

Can’t you be right and still be a self-deluded geek? That would be how things roll around here, anyway.

I had no idea what this meant and now that I do I’m GLAD I didn’t know what it meant!!!!!!

Your wife is right as usual….and so is Ray

You’re missing the point, Jason. The REASON you are a geek is BECAUSE you made an uncited reference to anything Star Trek and expected that others would just get it.

(angie shakes her head in both disappointment and shame)

JLP of course…who DOESN”T get that?

Okay, for all you non-NextGen fans I’ve updated the reference to something more contemporary…but I can’t promise I won’t go back to Picard at some point.

Wow… I have NO idea what that is.

I have to admit that I don’t know what either the tea one or the buzzinga meant.

although I looked it up. It appears to be a quote from Sheldon, a character on the TV show The Big Bang Theory. Variously spelled “Bazinga” and “Bazzinga.”

You guys really need to watch more television: The Big Bang Theory is high culture.

LOL! Never watched. Don’t tend to watch sitcoms.

I LOVE the Big Bang Theory! (For one, Sheldon is much more obsessive compulsive than I am in my wildest nightmares).

Around here, we sometimes even try “rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock” – though it’s not easy to remember which exactly beats what (I’m thinking “Spock” trumps all).

Now that I got immediately! Sheldon lives on, right here through all your friends on your blog………………and a few of my family members:P

I actually saw that quote a couple of weeks ago and had to google it.

Sorry, for all my sci-fi nerdiness (I own and have read ALL of the Dune books, one of which is signed by Frank Herbert), I never got into Star Trek.

All I have to say is that Star Wars is clearly better.

See now, Drew, you’ve just gone an stirred the age old nerd’s hornet nest! Don’t EVEN get me started…

“All I have to say is that Star Wars is clearly better.”

OMGosh!! Clearly by far it is. Absolutely no contest….

Ok, I am going to resist responding, because I am WAY to passionate about this and that scares me. (wink)

Take a breath Jamie : )