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Monday, April 27, 2009

TV / Science A Weird Thing That Happened to Me on a Bus Tour of Vancouver Yesterday

Posted by Lindy West on Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:21 AM

Tour Guide: "On your left here you can see St. Paul's Hospital. It's the oldest hospital in Vancouver, and a leading research facility in HIV and AIDS. Or, if you don't want to get involved with the whole HIV and AIDS thing, Scotty from Star Trek? The original Star Trek, the show? He was born here!"

People on Bus: "Ooooooooh!"

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AIDS is so 1988.

Posted by oinkoinkoinkoinkoinkoinkoinkoinkoinkoinkoinkoinkoinkoinkoink on April 27, 2009 at 9:23 AM

I would have paid good money to be on a bus tour of Vancouver with Lindy West. Talk about surreal.

Posted by MyDogBen on April 27, 2009 at 9:25 AM

Reading into it too much perhaps? Unless you aren't.... But my guess is that the tour guide was saying, basically, "maybe you don't want to think about a really horrible disease and instead would like to know about some really neat trivia!"

Posted by DavidFaber on April 27, 2009 at 9:31 AM

I seem to recall Scotty getting in trouble on shore leave a few times and Doc McCoy having to help him out with that. I suppose Space VD is more interesting than the Terran forms.

Posted by Baltimoron on April 27, 2009 at 9:32 AM

So, what happened? Did you get involved with the whole HIV and AIDS thing?

Posted by Superfrankenstein on April 27, 2009 at 9:48 AM

James "Scotty" Doohan lived in Redmond for years and years and raised some kids there. He was the most likely minor celebrity to run into at random on the Eastside, whether buying Scotty action figures at Toys R Us in Bellevue or just shopping at the QFC in Redmond.

Posted by My Name Here on April 27, 2009 at 9:52 AM

Who does want to, really?

Posted by Greg on April 27, 2009 at 9:52 AM

6 I once ran into Scotty as I was sprinting out of the QFC with my "purchase" of red wine.

Posted by hic ! on April 27, 2009 at 9:59 AM

Given that it's world-renowned, they probably could have played up the research angle a bit more positively. But, hey, I didn't know that about Doohan - I'll have to go take a photo. =)

Posted by wench on April 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM

what the heck is star treak? is that a new reality show?

Posted by TOOT on April 27, 2009 at 10:29 AM

That whole HIV and AIDS thing is so played out now that all the Seattle hipsters on Capitol Hill have it.

Posted by oh snap you got da AIDS on April 27, 2009 at 11:22 AM

Bus tour of Vancouver? What are you, 80?

Posted by Mahtli69 on April 27, 2009 at 11:39 AM

Shit, Vancouver sucks. That's why I'm moving to Chicago.

..Canada is crap.

Posted by Jocelyn on April 27, 2009 at 7:41 PM

Vancouver has a bunch of gay heroin addicts..

Posted by OINKsquared on April 27, 2009 at 11:17 PM

St. Pauls may eventually also become famous for collapsing on and killing all the patients inside- the plan is to discard it in favour of a new facility because a needed siesmic upgrade isn't practical, but who knows how many years it will be before that happens? Maybe in 30 years, after we pay down the Olympic debt.

Posted by S. Morris Rose on April 28, 2009 at 8:37 AM