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Post #338954

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C3PX
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When did the prequels officially suck?
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Date created
8-Dec-2008, 4:49 PM

"... scruffy looking-- nerf herder!"

"Hey! Who's scruffy looking?"

I always recall that one getting some pretty good chuckles out of people. Sure, nobody knew what a nerf was, but easily got the idea that it was a made up farm animal. That little quip, besides being funny, went a long way in displaying Han's personality. He has just been delivered a whole mess of insults and the one and only insult he responds to his the one relating to his looks.

I cannot even begin to see how sorcerer's ways and hokey religion ended up on that list. If you are going to include those two, I am surprised you did not add "ancient religion" in there, and for good measure, "farm boy", "old man", "ya old pirate" should probably be on their too. They'd make about as much sense being on that list as many of the ones you did put on their. You really are reaching. "Sorcerer's ways" is obviously referring to the use of magic and giving us an idea what the general population feel toward the orders of the Jedi and Sith.

I also don't see anything wrong with "hung of junk". "Walking carpet" was a pretty funny line, but almost unfitting for the kind, caring, diplomatic figure Leia would come to be known as, it is pretty much the equivalent of a racial insult.

And I also always thought the line "bantha fodder" was pretty cool. Bantha is obviously a common animal on Tantooine, and we have already been introduced to one in the first film. Growing up, we'd always use the line pig fodder, since pigs will eat anything, including human flesh if given the chance, and more than one of my friend's families owned pigs. "I've gotta be home by 9, or I'll be pig fodder!" (my mom will be so mad she'll feed me to the pigs if I'm not home by nine).