"I caught the tail end of a news item last week about a space rocket launch, I think taking supplies to the International Space Station. It only got a mention, because it also was carrying up the ashes of the actor James Doohan. The name might mean nothing to you but if I said he played Scotty in the TV series Star Trek, you'll possibly know who I'm talking about. His ashes, as per his last request, are to be scattered in space.
Despite arguments in various Scottish villages, he wasn't Scottish at all but Canadian. A rather obscure claim to fame I knew he had, was that his hand was the most "doubled" in television history. Every time they did the cut shot of his hand sliding the warp drive up a notch, it wasn't his hand doing it. The reason for this was that he'd lost part of it as a young Lieutenant in a Canadian regiment on D-Day at Juno beach in Normandy. After an experience like that, the life of a jobbing actor can't have seemed so perilous..."
Εεε... καμιά φορά η Ιστορία συναντιέται με τα παραμύθια σε ιστολόγια που δεν ανέχονται την πράσινη κοροϊδία. Ο σύνδεσμος στο βίντεο είναι από την Omaha Beach, όχι από την Juno Beach...
