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January 19
"" Star Trek’ Captain’s Kidney Stone Nets $25,000 in Charity Auction
LOS ANGELES (AP) – An online casino has a piece of Capt. Kirk. Actor William Shatner has sold his kidney stone for $25,000, with the money going to a housing charity, it was announced Tuesday. Shatner reached agreement Monday to sell the stone to GoldenPalace.com.
“This takes organ donors to a new height, to a new low, maybe. How much is a piece of me worth?'' he said in a telephone interview.
Shatner, who played Kirk on the original “Star Trek'' TV show and won an Emmy for his role on “Boston Legal,'' passed the stone last fall. [xx(]
The stone was so big, Shatner said, “you'd want to wear it on your finger.''
“If you subjected it to extreme heat, it might turn out to be a diamond,'' he added.""
http://www.space.com/astronotes/astronotes.html
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Set Phasers to Lithotripsy. [
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007113.htm#visualContent
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It's a kidney stone Jim, but not as we know it !
Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!
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I bet he didn’t half
cling on
to something when he passed that stone.
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ROBERT !!!!!...aaarrgghh !!!...lol ......
I bet he wish he could have just transported the thing out of him...it would have been an
enterprising
way of dealing with it.
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SPOCK: "thats illogical Captain".
KIRK : "No Spock, its urological"
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A large kidney stone would have shot out like a photon tor
pee
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A large kidney stone would have
warped
his urinary tract !!
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I believe the stone was from the glomerulur system originally, first observed in venous return as it passed on its way through the loop of Henley in a slingshot motion so to speak.
"The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct."
K.I.S. "Keep it simple!"
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Aren't the Glomeruli allies of the Ferenghi ?. [
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Most kidney stones are made of Calcium Crystals,
but surely Captain Kirk's must be made of
Dilithium Crystals
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http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/Camelot/Engines/Dilithium.html
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...I bet kirk thought he was in
tribble
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When his Doctor saw the pyelogram he said "
you're in
big trouble". [
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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19245.htm
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Engineer SCOTTY, (generic Scottish accent required):-
"ah
kidney
change the laws of physics Captain".
(only "sharkeyandgeorge" will appreciate that one). [
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