[ROBERT]

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

[ROBERT]

Set Phasers to Lithotripsy. []



http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007113.htm#visualContent

[neilep]

It's a kidney stone Jim, but not as we know it !

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

[ROBERT]

I bet he didn’t half cling on to something when he passed that stone.

[neilep]

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.


Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

[ROBERT]

SPOCK: "thats illogical Captain".
KIRK  : "No Spock, its urological"

[ROBERT]

A large kidney stone would have shot out like a photon torpeedo. []

[neilep]

A large kidney stone would have warped his urinary tract !!

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

[Andrew K Fletcher]

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!"

[ROBERT]

Aren't the Glomeruli allies of the Ferenghi ?. []

[ROBERT]

Most kidney stones are made of Calcium Crystals,

but surely Captain Kirk's must be made of Dilithium Crystals.   []

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/Camelot/Engines/Dilithium.html

[neilep]

...I bet kirk thought he was in tribble when he realised he had a dilithium crystal kidney stone  ![]

Men are the same as women.... just inside out !!

[ROBERT]

When his Doctor saw the pyelogram he said "you're in big trouble".  []

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19245.htm

[ROBERT]

Engineer SCOTTY, (generic Scottish accent required):-

"ah kidney change the laws of physics Captain".


(only "sharkeyandgeorge" will appreciate that one). []