Yes, but it's even funnier if you know that the line originally comes from
Moby Dick.
At 12:02 PM 8/21/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Mikey D,
>
><sigh>
>
>In "Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home", Kirk & Co. have to save the world (so
>what else is new) by doing time travel back to 20th-century San Francisco,
>grabbing a pair of humpback whales (which had become extinct by the Star
>Trek time frame), and bringing the whales forward in time, so the whales
>could tell the probe destroying life on Earth to "buzz off".
>
>When Scotty successfully beamed the whales into an impromptu tank in their
>ship, he communicated to Kirk with an awe-struck tone, "Captain, there be
>WHALES here!"
>
>Considering the many threads this list has had on the merits of various
>beers/ales and brew pubs, and all the sci-fi banter, and my incessantly bad
>puns, there you are...
>
>8-)
>
>-Ben
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:49 AM
>To: CF-Community
>Subject: Re: Star Trek pun
>
>
>I don't get it.
>
>At 12:46 PM 8/21/01, you wrote:
> >So Scotty beams into a current-day San Francisco brew pub.
> >What does he exclaim with wonderment into his communicator?
> >
> >"Captain, there be ALES here!"
> >
> ><ka-thump>
> >
> >-Ben
> >
> >
> >
>
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