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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' wa'maH vagh: <butlh>
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'>IIRC many of the Trek novels refer to a “sonic shower” – developed presumably to conserve potable water on long voyages. In fact, I thinks this was also a way to wash one’s uniform (while wearing it even?) in the pre-replicator era.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Consolas><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Consolas><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>--<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Consolas><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>Voragh<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Consolas><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D'>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Brent Kesler [mailto:[email protected]] <br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, January 03, 2012 1:38 PM<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> [email protected]<br><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Tlhingan-hol] nuq bop bom: 'ay' wa'maH vagh: <butlh><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Aren't saunas dry heat? You sweat out the dirt then scrap it off. Seems very Klingon.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>bI'reng<o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:28 PM, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh <<a href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Jan 2, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Qov <<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Klingons do not engage in swimming or bathing. Either all Klingons are perpetually filthy, as admittedly many on the shows appear to be, or they have some other method of performing basic hygiene. Any suggestions?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Showers are not like swimming. Perhaps not the full-body style, maybe just a handheld sprayer. And it might include an abrasive component in the manner of sandblasting rather than a simple detergent, though that's probably a bit far-fetched.<br><br>John Ford's Klingons luxuriated in something akin to a sauna. Hot and steamy works to get clean as well as dirty.<font color="#888888"><span style='color:#888888'><br><br><span class=hoenzb>-- ghunchu'wI'</span></span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>_______________________________________________<br>Tlhingan-hol mailing list<br><a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a><br><a href="http://stodi.digitalkingdom.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol"; target="_blank">http://stodi.digitalkingdom.org/mailman/listinfo/tlhingan-hol</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></div></div></body></html>_______________________________________________
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