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Tuesday, May 19, 2015

WHATCHA THINKIN BOUT, SULU?







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Thanks to Julia for putting me onto Vintage Chinese Posters of Babies in Space.
One has a version of the toy rocket I'd posted yesterday, and the perfect pose for a "WHATCHA THINKIN BOUT" meme too.

Btw, Star Trek's Sulu is Japanese, not Chinese, but by the 23rd century Earthkind is one big happy family.
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3 comments:

  1. JuliaMay 19, 2015 at 11:18 PM

    Glad you found inspiration in those posters--I might not really get the reference, but your meme still made me smile!

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  2. JuliaMay 19, 2015 at 11:21 PM

    Also, I'm remembering you with a bright red-orange phone in a photo? This is a thing, right?

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  3. FrescaMay 22, 2015 at 10:59 AM

    Oh, hey, yeah---I could make a meme with the baby and me on orange phones!
    Good catch, Julia.

    The reference...
    Nothing profound---the bottom of photo shows Sulu, the navigator on Star Trek, talking into his communicator from a planet to the starship.

    I guess, though, there's also a little added pun to "star"---the actor who played Sulu, George Takei, has maintained a long-running, public diva-snark with the actor who played Captain Kirk (William Shatner)--
    they both display "star" egos.

    So Sulu is thinkin bout stars (and starships) in space, and Takei is thinkin bout TV stars.

    Oh, OK--there is one more reference--another meme in this series shows Neil deGrasse Tyson asking, "Whatcha thinkin bout"
    And Carl Sagan replying,
    "Nothin much... just star stuffs".

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