Klaatu Barada Nikto!

[BurnItDwn]

So I was at this meeting about an hour and a half ago. The meeting room in the building I'm in was teleconferenced in with a couple other buildings meeting rooms. The chair of the meeting said "you guys there" and rather than just saying "yes, we're all here" and then saying everyone's names ... I instead blurted out "Klaatu Barada Nikto!" ....

3 of the people in the room near me knew what it meant, and they tried not to laugh too hard as they didn't want to "disrupt" the meeting. Sadly, the chair of the meeting said "I don't know what that means" ....

Ahh the perfect quote at the perfect moment, and yet it got very little recognition.

So I will say it again ... Klaatu Barada Nikto!

and no, I haven't watched The Day the Earth Stood Still or Army of Darkness any time recently.


So, if you are bored at work today .... feel free to approach random people in the building and say Klaatu Barada Nikto. If they say "is that Klingon" then you should probably not punch them in the face, also, you should not ask "are you a retard", as that might get you in trouble. Instead completely ignore the person for the remainder of the day.

 

[BigJ]

Bless you.

 

[George P Burdell]

Sorry, we'll have to check you back into the asylum.

 

[rivan]

Klaatu... isn't that related somehow to Starship Troopers?

 

[Apathetic]

I love Bruce Campbell's movies.

Dave

 

[tfcmasta97]

so its not klingon....?

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: rivan
Klaatu... isn't that related somehow to Starship Troopers?

Don't know, but that was the name of a band back in the 70s. Had sort of a Beatles sound.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: BurnItDwn

Ahh the perfect quote at the perfect moment, and yet it got very little recognition.

If you think that was a perfect quote at a perfect time, do yourself a favor and pipe down in meetings. You're not even close to being as clever or funny as you believe you are.

 

[Fern]

Ahh the perfect quote at the perfect moment, and yet it got very little recognition

What? Is your boss a giant silver alien robot who was on a killing spree at that time?

 

[LtPage1]

Originally posted by: rivan
Klaatu... isn't that related somehow to Starship Troopers?

But one of many references- in Star Wars, Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto each refer to a different alien species (and each seen for the first time in Jabba's Palace in Return of the Jedi. :thumbsup:

 

[LordMaul]

Apparently its made its way into everything from band names to Star Wars and Bruce Campbell flicks, but it started back in the early 50s with "The Day The Earth Stood Still." Classic alien movie.

 

[LordMaul]

Originally posted by: LtPage1

Originally posted by: rivan
Klaatu... isn't that related somehow to Starship Troopers?

But one of many references- in Star Wars, Klaatu, Barada, and Nikto each refer to a different alien species (and each seen for the first time in Jabba's Palace in Return of the Jedi. :thumbsup:

Actually, IIRC, those are the respective names of three guards on his sail barge (in his palace, too, I guess) not species.


/crawls back toward computer in sunless basement

 

[CFster]

The term "Klaatu barada nikto!" was actually a command that the dying alien Klaatu instructed Helen Benson to tell to the robot Gort, to prevent him from destroying the earth.

It's from the 1951 science fiction film "The Day the Earth Stood Still".

One of the greatest sci-fi flicks of all time.

 

[Batti]

Nikto