Star Trek actor William Shatner has sold his kidney stone for $25,000 (£14,000) to an online casino, to raise money for a housing charity.
The 74-year-old actor agreed on Monday to sell the stone to GoldenPalace.com.
"This takes organ donors to a new height, to a new low, maybe. How much is a piece of me worth?" said Shatner.
The money will go to Habitat for Humanity. US TV show Boston Legal, in which Shatner stars, raised $20,000 (£11,317) for the charity last year.
Shatner, who played Captain Kirk on the original Star Trek TV series, passed the stone last autumn.
More illogical commentary at the Beeb...
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
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Very good chuckle, thanks. It is nice to know that Bill Shatner can poke fun at himself and be charitable at the same time. Talk about giving a piece of yourself to benefit humanity.
Tell us something.: I've picked up the tinwhistle again after several years, and have recently purchased a Chieftain v5 from Kerry Whistles that I cannot wait to get (why can't we beam stuff yet, come on Captain Kirk, get me my Low D!)
“First lesson: money is not wealth; Second lesson: experiences are more valuable than possessions; Third lesson: by the time you arrive at your goal it’s never what you imagined it would be so learn to enjoy the process” - unknown
The Beeb wrote:...the auction price includes the surgical stint and string used to permit passage of the stone.
The thing's a stent, not a "stint." How are the mighty fallen...
So what's next? Other celebrities won't want to be outdone. $50K for Brad Pitt's appendix? Do I hear $75K for Halle Berry's gallbladder? Going...going...
Tell us something.: I've picked up the tinwhistle again after several years, and have recently purchased a Chieftain v5 from Kerry Whistles that I cannot wait to get (why can't we beam stuff yet, come on Captain Kirk, get me my Low D!)
The Beeb wrote:...the auction price includes the surgical stint and string used to permit passage of the stone.
The thing's a stent, not a "stint." How are the mighty fallen...
All that star worship has stinted their growth.
“First lesson: money is not wealth; Second lesson: experiences are more valuable than possessions; Third lesson: by the time you arrive at your goal it’s never what you imagined it would be so learn to enjoy the process” - unknown
74-years-old?!
He can't be that old! Maybe it's like that one original Star Trek episode where they all age (The Deadly Years?).
Now I'm feeling old...
Montana wrote:74-years-old?!
He can't be that old! Maybe it's like that one original Star Trek episode where they all age (The Deadly Years?).
Now I'm feeling old...
"The operation is said to be excruciatingly painful, and the auction price includes the surgical stint and string used to permit passage of the stone."
This reminds me of my party trick of opening a bottle of wine with just a knotted shoelace: You push the cork in then dangle the lace in till the knot is below the cork then pull both out together. [/quote]
What are all you lot smirking about? Let him who is without sin cast the first...er....
Oh, bugger it....
Steve
"Last night, among his fellow roughs,
He jested, quaff'd and swore."
They cut me down and I leapt up high
I am the life that'll never, never die.
I'll live in you if you'll live in me -
I am the lord of the dance, said he!
"It might be a bit better to tune to one of my fiddle's open strings, like A, rather than asking me for an F#." - Martin Milner
Talk about giving a piece of yourself to benefit humanity. 
