Spock is gay!

[garbon]

There aren't many out young actors.

are there that many gays to being with?  Is there a lower proportion of gay actors than in the general population?

[Valmy]

I have to say I am not a big fan of knowing much about actors and actresses personal lives.  Like knowing an actor is married and seeing them kissing somebody else or whatever.  It is not that I think what I am seeing on the screen is real or anything just that it is easier to suspend my disbelief if I don't know that Michael C Hall is not actually gay when watching Six Feet Under. I kind of like just having them be a blank slate and knowing them only by their work.

[Barrister]

I have to say I am not a big fan of knowing much about actors and actresses personal lives.  Like knowing an actor is married and seeing them kissing somebody else or whatever.  It is not that I think what I am seeing on the screen is real or anything just that it is easier to suspend my disbelief if I don't know that Michael C Hall is not actually gay when watching Six Feet Under. I kind of like just having them be a blank slate and knowing them only by their work.

You'd better find a pretty big cave to hide yourself in then.

[Malthus]

BTW, the REAL Spock is not gay, is on his second marriage and has two kids.

While checking up I found out both Nimoy and Shatner are Ukrainian Jews.

You know that special "live long and prosper" Vulcan hand-gesture? Jewish. 

[Valmy]

You'd better find a pretty big cave to hide yourself in then.

Since I have started actively trying not to know it is alot easier than I thought. 

[Barrister]

BTW, the REAL Spock is not gay, is on his second marriage and has two kids.

While checking up I found out both Nimoy and Shatner are Ukrainian Jews.

You know that special "live long and prosper" Vulcan hand-gesture? Jewish. 

I knew that.

[Valmy]

You know that special "live long and prosper" Vulcan hand-gesture? Jewish. 

Really?  What does it mean?

My son does it all the time naturally.

[garbon]

You'd better find a pretty big cave to hide yourself in then.

Since I have started actively trying not to know it is alot easier than I thought. 

What does that entail exactly?

[garbon]

BTW, the REAL Spock is not gay, is on his second marriage and has two kids.

While checking up I found out both Nimoy and Shatner are Ukrainian Jews.

You know that special "live long and prosper" Vulcan hand-gesture? Jewish. 

I thought you were going to point out that it was a gay hand gesture.

[Barrister]

You know that special "live long and prosper" Vulcan hand-gesture? Jewish. 

Really?  What does it mean?

My son does it all the time naturally.

That I don't know.  I just remember seeing the non-gay Spock describe that as a kid in temple there was one part of the service where everyone was supposed to turn around away from the rabbi, and being a kid he looked back at the rabbi who was making that hand gesture.

[Malthus]

You know that special "live long and prosper" Vulcan hand-gesture? Jewish. 

Really?  What does it mean?

My son does it all the time naturally.

It's a ritual blessing given by Kohens. Here it is on a gravestone:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Grave_Rabbi_Meschullam_Kohn.jpg



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priestly_Blessing

In the mid-1960s, actor Leonard Nimoy, who was raised in a traditional Jewish home, used a single-handed version of this gesture to create the Vulcan Hand Salute for his character, Spock, on Star Trek. He has explained that while attending Orthodox services as a child, he peeked from under his father's tallit and saw the gesture; many years later, when introducing the character of Mr. Spock, he and series creator Gene Roddenberry thought a physical component should accompany the verbal "Live long and prosper" greeting. The Jewish priestly gesture looked sufficiently alien and mysterious, and became part of Star Trek lore.

[Valmy]

What does that entail exactly?

Staying away from TV news and not looking at the gossip rags in line at the store mostly.

[Valmy]

It's a ritual blessing given by Kohens. Here it is on a gravestone:

Awesome!  Thanks.

[Grey Fox]

I have to say I am not a big fan of knowing much about actors and actresses personal lives.  Like knowing an actor is married and seeing them kissing somebody else or whatever.  It is not that I think what I am seeing on the screen is real or anything just that it is easier to suspend my disbelief if I don't know that Michael C Hall is not actually gay when watching Six Feet Under. I kind of like just having them be a blank slate and knowing them only by their work.

Especially since Mister Hall is a notorious co-worker banger.

[Malthus]

It's a ritual blessing given by Kohens. Here it is on a gravestone:

Awesome!  Thanks.

The funny part is that it really *does* mean something very much like "live long and prosper".