ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) (12/13/85)
In _Young Sherlock Holmes_, Holmes brings up that infamous Klingon
proverb, "Revenge is best served cold, Watson." I laughed aloud in
the theater and got some strange looks.
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In article <468@ucdavis.UUCP> ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) writes:
In _Young Sherlock Holmes_, Holmes brings up that infamous Klingon
proverb, "Revenge is best served cold, Watson." I laughed aloud in
the theater and got some strange looks.
Well, don't feel bad. You weren't alone. I got some REALLY strange looks.
But part of that is because no one in the Glendale Galleria would ever think
of going to see Star Trek.
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Arpa: tli@usc-ecl.arpacc-18@cory.BERKELEY.EDU (John Lee) (12/18/85)
In article <468@ucdavis.UUCP> ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) writes: >In _Young Sherlock Holmes_, Holmes brings up that infamous Klingon >proverb, "Revenge is best served cold, Watson." I laughed aloud in >the theater and got some strange looks. >-- >-- Kevin Chu >-- !{ucbvax,lll-crg,dual}!ucdavis!vega!ccs020 >-- ucdavis!vega!ccs020@ucb-vax.arpa Maybe Steven Spielberg is a closet trekkie! :-)
moriarty@fluke.UUCP (The Napoleon of Crime) (12/18/85)
>In _Young Sherlock Holmes_, Holmes brings up that infamous Klingon >proverb, "Revenge is best served cold, Watson." I laughed aloud in >the theater and got some strange looks. Isn't this originally an Italian saying? I seem to remember hearing it much earlier than ST II... (maybe I'm thinking of pasta, not revenge :-) ). "Tourists -- have some fun with New york's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchiking." -- David Letterman Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb6, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*>
dma@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dennis Anderson) (12/20/85)
> >In _Young Sherlock Holmes_, Holmes brings up that infamous Klingon > >proverb, "Revenge is best served cold, Watson." I laughed aloud in > >the theater and got some strange looks. > > Isn't this originally an Italian saying? I seem to remember hearing it much > earlier than ST II... (maybe I'm thinking of pasta, not revenge :-) ). > > "Tourists -- have some fun with New york's > hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your > destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was > hitchiking." > -- David Letterman > > Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer > ARPA: fluke!moriarty@uw-beaver.ARPA > UUCP: {uw-beaver, sun, allegra, sb6, lbl-csam}!fluke!moriarty > <*> DISCLAIMER: Do what you want with me, but leave my employers alone! <*> I don't know about it being Italian, but the saying did appear in The Godfather. At least in the book. I don't remember it in the movie.
brown@utflis.UUCP (Susan Brown) (12/20/85)
In article <11257@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> cc-18@cory.UUCP (John Lee) writes: >Maybe Steven Spielberg is a closet trekkie! :-) For sure. In Close Encounters, Roy has a Klingon ship model in his hobby room. sb (I'll be embarrassed if Spielberg wasn't the director of Close Encounter!)
ugthomas@sunybcs.UUCP (Timothy Thomas) (12/22/85)
> In _Young Sherlock Holmes_, Holmes brings up that infamous Klingon > proverb, "Revenge is best served cold, Watson." Actually, to get picky, the Klingon proverb was "Revenge is a dish best served cold" -- ____________ ____/--\____ \______ ___) ( _ ____) "Damn it Jim!, __| |____/ / `--' I'm a programmer not a Doctor!" ) `|=(- \------------' Timothy D. Thomas SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science UUCP: [decvax,dual,rocksanne,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!ugthomas CSnet: ugthomas@buffalo, ARPAnet: ugthomas%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY
aep@abic.UUCP (Alex Pensky) (12/23/85)
*** > >In _Young Sherlock Holmes_, Holmes brings up that infamous Klingon > >proverb, "Revenge is best served cold, Watson." > > Maybe Steven Spielberg is a closet trekkie! :-) The line from the movie would seem quite humorous if one assumed Holmes was quoting a Klingon. But Holmes actually said it a long time ago and the Klingon was quoting Holmes, not the other way around. The quote is "Revenge is a dish best served cold," and for all I know it did not even originate with Conan Doyle but might be an old proverb or a quote from an earlier author. (If anyone knows the exact origin of the quote, please post.)
plw@panda.UUCP (Pete Williamson) (12/24/85)
> >The line from the movie would seem quite humorous if one assumed Holmes >was quoting a Klingon. But Holmes actually said it a long time ago and >the Klingon was quoting Holmes, not the other way around. The quote is >"Revenge is a dish best served cold," and for all I know it did not even >originate with Conan Doyle but might be an old proverb or a quote from an >earlier author. (If anyone knows the exact origin of the quote, please >post.) > Thought I knew my Sherlock pretty well ... In what story did Sir Arthur actually pen this phrase ?? -- Pete Williamson "By hook or by crook, we will !!" ... #2
ccs020@ucdavis.UUCP (Kevin Chu) (01/06/86)
> >In _Young Sherlock Holmes_, Holmes brings up that infamous Klingon > >proverb, "Revenge is best served cold, Watson." I laughed aloud in > >the theater and got some strange looks. > > Isn't this originally an Italian saying? I seem to remember hearing it much > earlier than ST II... (maybe I'm thinking of pasta, not revenge :-) ). > > Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer Since I posted the original posting, I have received about thirty letters telling me that it was a Greek/Roman/Chinese/Japanese/German/Egyptian/ or whatever saying. Now it's an Italian saying. The truth of the matter is that I don't know where the quote came from, I don't really care. :-) For those of you who haven't been reading net.startrek long enough, here's the scoop. In ST II, Khan says "Revenge is a dish best served cold" and he identifies it as a Klingon quote. The discussion was about how Khan had ever heard a Klingon quote. Please DO NOT start discussing this again. I am only posting this because I accidentally deleted the form letter that I wrote to reply to all of the letters. -- Kevin Chu !{ucbvax,lll-crg,dual}!ucdavis!vega!ccs020 ucdavis!vega!ccs020@ucb-vax.arpa