Some people just get a little too excited about TV

KillerMuffin

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LONDON (Reuters) - A British "Star Trek" fan has turned his home into a replica of television's most famous spaceship.

Tony Alleyne spent $11,300 to convert his one-bedroom apartment into the starship Enterprise. The apartment now includes a command console and windows reshaped to look like portholes.

The centerpiece of his spaceship home is a three-dimensional ceiling with an "infinity" mirror at the center.

"It can make you feel a bit dizzy because it looks as if you're peering out into space," he told Reuters on Friday, posing in a space suit.

Alleyne, of Hinckley in central England, said he used magazines and information from NASA to get the design right.

"What really fascinates me about 'Star Trek' is the artistic and technology side of it," the ex-disc jockey explained.

Alleyne, 48, who said his wife left him for another earthling, lives alone in the apartment.

"My mother would say it's not very cozy -- but I do make people a cup of tea when they come and visit," he said.

"Star Trek" was first launched in 1966 as a television series with William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as pointy-eared Spock.

The series and "Star Trek" films sparked a cult following around the world, with fans converging for regular conventions and memorabilia commanding high prices at auctions.





I love the news people. Heheheh.
 
Nah.

I'm not a big fan of anybody. TV neither.

I'm a fan of yours though. The Muff that Roared.
 
KillerMuffin said:
Alleyne, 48, who said his wife left him for another earthling, lives alone in the apartment.


Gee, why does this not surprise me??
 
I saw a TV report on it. He may not be so mad as it first appears. There are a huge ammount of TV programmes on Brit TV at the moment on redecorating, (101 uses for medium density fibreboard) or how to do your house up for a profitable sale. The guy is in the building game and I think he's doing the place up to sell. So what he's doing is not much different to adding fake "exposed timber beams" or a built in bar.
Compared to what some people seem willing to invest in their patio and garden, (the water feature, the decking etc.) It may come out as investment increasing the propert value.
 
I've renovated my kitchen to be an exact replica of Ralph Kramden's apartment. It only cost me three bucks.
 
I know what you mean Haze.

I'm going for the Kramer look. "Levels" with lots of big pillows to sit on. And a hot tub in the middle of the living room.

I tried the talk show set look, but got tired of interviewing people. Plus they always wanted better food in the greenroom than I could afford.

Snotty self-absorbed bastards.
 
Yes, LEVELS. I'll bet you a hundred bucks you don't go through with it.

My backyard is M*A*S*H, even got old 'ferret-face' pushin' the lawn-mower.

My living room is early 'Odd Couple'

My garage is just like the Bat cave, I love sliding down those poles.

And my bathroom makes the same noise as the Bunker's.

The bad part is that dumbass 'Potsie' is always hanging around.
 
The man is not completly crazy...a little obbsesed though, lol, Im a trekkie myself, but if i had over 11,000 bucks, i sure as hell wouldnt put it all toward making my apartment look like the bridge of the enterprise. Christ, I still would like to pick up chicks. Qoute the words of William Shatner on SNL: "Get a life! Dont any of you have girlfriends? YOU! Have you ever even kissed a girl before!?"
 
ROFL

Fuck you- I've already got the plywood :)

My living room right now is classic "Married with Children". The finishing touch is when I slouch on my plaid couch in a v-neck t-shirt and shove my hand down my pants, a la Al Bundy (my personal hero).

I'm thinking about redoing my bedroom in contemporary "Gilligan's Island". Four inches of sand on the floor, hand-woven hammocks, and coconut oil lamps to read by.

The Professor is in the garage building me a radio out of coconuts and seashells as I type this.

That Professor...hehe...crazy motherfucker would build a Volvo out of coconuts if I turned him loose...

Now If I could just get Maryann to give me some anal action...
 
KillerMuffin said:


Alleyne, 48, who said his wife left him for another earthling, lives alone in the apartment.


Shouldnt that read ".....left him for AN earthling"?
 
The whole Al Bundy thing... gawd PC, you've just been elevated to Love God SuperExtraordinaire in my book. I may attack you now.
 
KillerMuffin said:
The whole Al Bundy thing... gawd PC, you've just been elevated to Love God SuperExtraordinaire in my book. I may attack you now.

Have you seen the remote, Muffin?

:p
 
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