{"id":412,"date":"2007-11-28T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:19:31","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T19:19:31","slug":"top-ten-science-fiction-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Top Ten&#8221; Science Fiction Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.littlefivers.com\/\">Little Fivers<\/A>&#8221; site has an entire sub-category of science fiction-related &#8220;top ten&#8221; lists, such as this one, &#8220;The Top 10 Grievances of the Sci-Fi Characters Union:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>10> Silver spandex jumpsuits make our asses look like huge sparkly disco balls.<\/p>\n<p>9> Much as we like to save Earth, the Universe and Everything on a regular basis, we&#8217;d like to get paid commensurate with our skill set. In other words, enough with the chump change! Show us some GRATITUDE! Monetarily, of course&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>8> Those Borg scabs get all the best perks thanks to their unique approach to collective bargaining.<\/p>\n<p>7> Half of the union has filed sexual harassment complaints against Lazarus Long, including his own past and future selves.<\/p>\n<p>6> While we understand that spandex shows off our attributes &#8212; for those of us that have them &#8212; we find it really rides up in the crotch. So, NO MORE SPANDEX!!!<\/p>\n<p>5> Dental benefits for &#8220;Aliens&#8221; exclude any sets of teeth that extend more than 6 inches in front of the face.<\/p>\n<p>4> The gagh in the commissary is never served alive.<\/p>\n<p>3> First transported down, first transported back up.<\/p>\n<p>2> Medical insurance does not cover having one&#8217;s DNA rewritten, despite the regularity of the event.<\/p>\n<p>and the Number 1 Grievance of the Sci-Fi Characters Union&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1> The Universal Brotherhood of BEMs demand human movies\/TV stop falsely portraying aliens as hot human babes in tight clothing. We&#8217;re bug-eyed. We&#8217;re monsters. And we&#8217;re damned proud of it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.littlefivers.com\/scifi\/\">Link<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Little Fivers&#8221; site has an entire sub-category of science fiction-related &#8220;top ten&#8221; lists, such as this one, &#8220;The Top 10 Grievances of the Sci-Fi Characters Union:&#8221; 10> Silver spandex jumpsuits make our asses look like huge sparkly disco balls. 9> Much as we like to save Earth, the Universe and Everything on a regular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}