HA! I checked the college's website and found the date! May 3, 1984, Beasley Coliseum, Washington State University Campus, Pullman, Washington. I had purchased my ticket ahead of time but my friend had to go in to buy hers. The entry doors were the same, in other words, there wasn't one for buying tickets and another for people who had already bought, so I waited outside the door for her return. As we debated whether we should go back in line or whatever, the doors opened and we said what the heck and started in. Some bit¢h yelled, "I hope you're happy with yourselves after everyone else stood for 40 minutes in the cold!" We noticed she barged in to snag better seats even than we did--such people always do.
When Nimoy entered, everyone flashed the "live long and prosper" sign. I am one of the people able to do this without having to first push the fingers into position. Strange to say, I had been thinking of him often lately, though really more of Bones, because I have been suffering significant pain between the middle joint of the ring finger and the knuckle joint, also between that knuckle and the middle finger knuckle (probably from spending half a day on a laptop daily) so that I can still make the sign but find it extremely painful--and I remember Bones complaining about how uncomfortable it was! So I don't take credit for killing Nimoy although I seem to have killed Davy Jones, Ralph Waite, and Mickey Rooney! Because I thought or spoke of them just before they died. Davy died the next day, Ralph was dead in four days and poor Mickey only lasted about an hour!
During the Q & A my friend asked about a story of hers, not really about Kirk and Spock but fictional characters appearing in their forms. Nimoy answered, "Paramount owns the characters." The big moment during the Q & A occurred when someone asked, "Does Spock survive Genesis?" (The third movie had been filmed, but not released.) Nimoy asked the audience if he should tell and they bellowed in one voice, "NO!" The last question came from some guy who seemed intelligent and as if he must have some actual point then meandered off on the Muses of Apollo or something. My friend wondered if he was a shill Nimoy placed in the audience as a good way of cutting off the Q & A, but someone said no, he was in a class of theirs and was always like that!
When Nimoy entered, everyone flashed the "live long and prosper" sign. I am one of the people able to do this without having to first push the fingers into position. Strange to say, I had been thinking of him often lately, though really more of Bones, because I have been suffering significant pain between the middle joint of the ring finger and the knuckle joint, also between that knuckle and the middle finger knuckle (probably from spending half a day on a laptop daily) so that I can still make the sign but find it extremely painful--and I remember Bones complaining about how uncomfortable it was! So I don't take credit for killing Nimoy although I seem to have killed Davy Jones, Ralph Waite, and Mickey Rooney! Because I thought or spoke of them just before they died. Davy died the next day, Ralph was dead in four days and poor Mickey only lasted about an hour!
During the Q & A my friend asked about a story of hers, not really about Kirk and Spock but fictional characters appearing in their forms. Nimoy answered, "Paramount owns the characters." The big moment during the Q & A occurred when someone asked, "Does Spock survive Genesis?" (The third movie had been filmed, but not released.) Nimoy asked the audience if he should tell and they bellowed in one voice, "NO!" The last question came from some guy who seemed intelligent and as if he must have some actual point then meandered off on the Muses of Apollo or something. My friend wondered if he was a shill Nimoy placed in the audience as a good way of cutting off the Q & A, but someone said no, he was in a class of theirs and was always like that!
