{"id":763,"date":"2006-10-29T09:59:47","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T09:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/29\/youve-come-a-long-way-baby\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T09:59:47","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T09:59:47","slug":"youve-come-a-long-way-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/10\/29\/youve-come-a-long-way-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"You’ve Come a Long Way, Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/cite><\/a> was on tv yesterday, and we watched most of it because it’s a classic, and because the alternative was bad college football. Kate had never seen it before, and was surprised to find that it wasn’t campy.<\/p>\n

There is, however, one scene that has become unintentionally hilarious over the past fifty-odd years. Two Army doctors are outside the room where Klaatu (Michael Rennie) is being held, and they have a conversation that goes something like this (paraphrased, from memory):<\/p>\n

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Doctor 1:<\/b> How old would you say [Klaatu] is?<\/p>\n

Doctor 2:<\/b> Thirty-five, or thirty-eight.<\/p>\n

Doctor 1:<\/b> He told me his age yesterday when I examined him. He’s seventy-eight. He says his life expectancy is one hundred and thirty-eight.<\/p>\n

Doctor 2:<\/b> How is that possible?<\/p>\n

Doctor 1:<\/b> He says their medical science is just that much better that ours.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And then Doctor 1 leans over and hands Doctor 2 a cigarette, and they both light up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Day the Earth Stood Still was on tv yesterday, and we watched most of it because it’s a classic, and because the alternative was bad college football. Kate had never seen it before, and was surprised to find that it wasn’t campy. There is, however, one scene that has become unintentionally hilarious over the… Continue reading You’ve Come a Long Way, Doctor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}