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Where were you in '77?
Love me...love my Star Wars obsession?
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Hyde: Fezzy, man, it's Star Wars.
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"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
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If I sound a little bitter about this, it's because an ex-girlfriend did a similar thing. Good thing we didn't actually get married!
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Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
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“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.”
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
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You know of the rebellion against the Empire?
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You'd think I'd still have at least a figurine or something displayed on my desk, a model ship, or some sort of reference somewhere in my home to remind me of my childhood obsession. That is how far it has fallen for me I guess. I went from the kid with Ewoks on his bed, three different sets of Star Wars sheets, posters and ship blueprints on my walls, and SW figures and models displayed on every possible surface, to the point of having all that stuff boxed up in storage where I have not seen it for years and would do little more than shrug if it were all burned up or stolen.
However, at the end of the day I can honestly say I have not had one single fight with my wife or any other girl over Star Wars. Though I am not quite so sure how she will feel when I insist that our first babies first toy be a plush Yoda... but if it comes to a fight over that, it will be a fight worth having!
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OMG! She has the nerve to call his Star Wars habit "Unhealthy"? She needs to "get real" as Dr. Phil would say, and take a good look at their food intake! that's what is truly "Unhealthy" about these two.
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Wow! I was a loser (I say that in the nicest meaning of the word) enough to have Star Wars posters on my walls up until sometime during my first highschool years. It used to be you could not look any direction in my room with out seeing those two words. This was back before the existence of a single prequel and before DVD had taken off enough for it to matter that the OOT was no longer available. All was well with SW fandom and the SW universe in those days, the biggest complaint from anybody was the then already ridiculous quantity of SW novels filling the bookstore shelves (little did we know...). In other words, it was a time of peace, and there was nothing to be ashamed about with the current state of things, other than the fact that SW fans were considered nerds back in those days (now a days I think "pre-teen" is the concept that comes to mind when the common person thinks of SW fans. Phew, thank God we shook the nerd stigma!). Anyway, reading this thread I have just realized that through out my entire home you cannot find that word displayed anywhere other than on three different books on my bookshelf, my original trilogy DVDs on my DVD rack, and last but not least, my NES cartrige or Star Wars sitting proudly on the shelf next to my other cartridges.
You'd think I'd still have at least a figurine or something displayed on my desk, a model ship, or some sort of reference somewhere in my home to remind me of my childhood obsession. That is how far it has fallen for me I guess. I went from the kid with Ewoks on his bed, three different sets of Star Wars sheets, posters and ship blueprints on my walls, and SW figures and models displayed on every possible surface, to the point of having all that stuff boxed up in storage where I have not seen it for years and would do little more than shrug if it were all burned up or stolen.
However, at the end of the day I can honestly say I have not had one single fight with my wife or any other girl over Star Wars. Though I am not quite so sure how she will feel when I insist that our first babies first toy be a plush Yoda... but if it comes to a fight over that, it will be a fight worth having!
Wow! I was a loser (I say that in the nicest meaning of the word) enough to have Star Wars posters on my walls up until sometime during my first highschool years. It used to be you could not look any direction in my room with out seeing those two words. This was back before the existence of a single prequel and before DVD had taken off enough for it to matter that the OOT was no longer available. All was well with SW fandom and the SW universe in those days, the biggest complaint from anybody was the then already ridiculous quantity of SW novels filling the bookstore shelves (little did we know...). In other words, it was a time of peace, and there was nothing to be ashamed about with the current state of things, other than the fact that SW fans were considered nerds back in those days (now a days I think "pre-teen" is the concept that comes to mind when the common person thinks of SW fans. Phew, thank God we shook the nerd stigma!). Anyway, reading this thread I have just realized that through out my entire home you cannot find that word displayed anywhere other than on three different books on my bookshelf, my original trilogy DVDs on my DVD rack, and last but not least, my NES cartrige or Star Wars sitting proudly on the shelf next to my other cartridges.
You'd think I'd still have at least a figurine or something displayed on my desk, a model ship, or some sort of reference somewhere in my home to remind me of my childhood obsession. That is how far it has fallen for me I guess. I went from the kid with Ewoks on his bed, three different sets of Star Wars sheets, posters and ship blueprints on my walls, and SW figures and models displayed on every possible surface, to the point of having all that stuff boxed up in storage where I have not seen it for years and would do little more than shrug if it were all burned up or stolen.
However, at the end of the day I can honestly say I have not had one single fight with my wife or any other girl over Star Wars. Though I am not quite so sure how she will feel when I insist that our first babies first toy be a plush Yoda... but if it comes to a fight over that, it will be a fight worth having!
Interesting, because I never had any specific room-related Star Wars memorabilia growing up, except for, of course, the movie as well as my giant tub of Star Wars figures. But just now, in my last year of college, I've added two Star Wars related things to the walls of my room. When my girlfriend and I were in Disney World back in May, we had a picture of us taken as Han Solo and Princess Leia (spliced into that classic photo of the three main characters in the Death Star), so I put that on my wall. And then, at a poster sale, I found the classic Empire Strikes Back Gone with the Wind poster that I love, so I bought that and put it on my wall.
Doh! What am I thinking about? For the past year and a half I've also had the life-sized slave Leia cardboard cutout in my room that my girlfriend bought me. She's about as big a nerd as I am, so I doubt we'll be going on Dr. Phil any time soon.
There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
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Originally posted by: Gaffer Tape
For the past year and a half I've also had the life-sized slave Leia cardboard cutout in my room that my girlfriend bought me.
For the past year and a half I've also had the life-sized slave Leia cardboard cutout in my room that my girlfriend bought me.
The part about your girl friendbuying it for you was totally unexpected. When I got to the "that my girlfriend..." part, I thought you were going to say something along the lines of "hates", "wants me to get rid of", "complains about", "teases me about", etc.
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There is no lingerie in space…
C3PX said: Gaffer is like that hot girl in high school that you think you have a chance with even though she is way out of your league because she is sweet and not a stuck up bitch who pretends you don’t exist… then one day you spot her making out with some skinny twerp, only on second glance you realize it is the goth girl who always sits in the back of class; at that moment it dawns on you why she is never seen hanging off the arm of any of the jocks… and you realize, damn, she really is unobtainable after all. Not that that is going to stop you from dreaming… Only in this case, Gaffer is actually a guy.
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Arnie, I just tried the link, it works fine for me. It has a short commercial or ad at the beginning that you have to wait to finish before it will show you the video. Is that maybe what you were seeing?
Arnie, I just tried the link, it works fine for me. It has a short commercial or ad at the beginning that you have to wait to finish before it will show you the video. Is that maybe what you were seeing?
No, first I get a Suzuki commercial, after that I always get a car bomd aftermath, a suicide bomber aftermath or IED aftermath video. They are different every day. I see a lot that's related to wars but I'm missing the stars.
Hyde: Fezzy, man, it's Star Wars.
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I'm now getting Tsjaad rebel attack footage. For a split second the only thing my brain filtered out was "rebel attack" so I thought this time I got the correct video.
This is so depressing, you guys are getting Star Wars stuff and the only thing I see is the madness of this world.
Hyde: Fezzy, man, it's Star Wars.
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Originally posted by: C3PX
Maybe it is because you are outside of the US that it automatically redirects you to a different CNN.com.
Maybe it is because you are outside of the US that it automatically redirects you to a different CNN.com.
Well i'm in the UK and i could see the video so it can't be that. Are you using Firefox or IE Arnie.d?
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Hyde: Fezzy, man, it's Star Wars.
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Well, I searched google for the video and found numerous links to it, but they all lead back to the same page silverwook linked to. Anyway, it wasn't that huge of a deal, just a guy who has a room in his basement full of all his Star Wars stuff. His wife complains because she feels that he spends more time in his Star Wars room with his collection than he does with her. She called Dr. Phil (not sure if you know who he is, he is a fake TV psychologist who has his own show where people come on and talk about there problems and he helps them work it out while cracking a lot of dry jokes and making the audience laugh.) In the video they mention going on the Dr. Phil show, and the guy says that he was nervous and thought Phil would tear him apart, but he ended up taking his side and after it was over Phil bent over and told him that he had a really cool Stormtrooper costume (or something to that effect). Know you know as much as we do I think. Did I leave anything out anybody?
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Originally posted by: Mike O
Star Wars came between you and a girlfriend?
Well, I wouldn't quite say that, but I would say that she seriously misrepresented how much she liked Star Wars when we first got together. Later on this fact came out during arguments when she declared that my interest in it annoyed her. Wish I'd known that in the beginning!Star Wars came between you and a girlfriend?
Not that it was a deciding factor in our breakup, but if the person I'm with finds my interest in Star Wars annoying then clearly I'm with the wrong person. Also, I'd rather be with someone who is indifferent (but tolerant) of Star Wars than someone who claims to really like it and actually doesn't.
Lately I've been seeing someone whose geek level is even higher than mine. Needless to say, Star Wars is not an issue between us!
--SKot
Projects:
Return Of The Ewok and Other Short Films (with OCPmovie) [COMPLETED]
Preserving the…cringe…Star Wars Holiday Special [COMPLETED]
The Star Wars TV Commercials Project [DORMANT]
Felix the Cat 1919-1930 early film shorts preservation [ONGOING]
Lights Out! (lost TV anthology shows) [ONGOING]
Iznogoud (1995 animated series) English audio preservation [ONGOING]
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Originally posted by: C3PX
I am using IE7 and I can get it. Arnie is not in the UK either, so I suppose that could still have some effect, but not that likely.
Well, I searched google for the video and found numerous links to it, but they all lead back to the same page silverwook linked to. Anyway, it wasn't that huge of a deal, just a guy who has a room in his basement full of all his Star Wars stuff. His wife complains because she feels that he spends more time in his Star Wars room with his collection than he does with her. She called Dr. Phil (not sure if you know who he is, he is a fake TV psychologist who has his own show where people come on and talk about there problems and he helps them work it out while cracking a lot of dry jokes and making the audience laugh.) In the video they mention going on the Dr. Phil show, and the guy says that he was nervous and thought Phil would tear him apart, but he ended up taking his side and after it was over Phil bent over and told him that he had a really cool Stormtrooper costume (or something to that effect). Know you know as much as we do I think. Did I leave anything out anybody?
I am using IE7 and I can get it. Arnie is not in the UK either, so I suppose that could still have some effect, but not that likely.
Well, I searched google for the video and found numerous links to it, but they all lead back to the same page silverwook linked to. Anyway, it wasn't that huge of a deal, just a guy who has a room in his basement full of all his Star Wars stuff. His wife complains because she feels that he spends more time in his Star Wars room with his collection than he does with her. She called Dr. Phil (not sure if you know who he is, he is a fake TV psychologist who has his own show where people come on and talk about there problems and he helps them work it out while cracking a lot of dry jokes and making the audience laugh.) In the video they mention going on the Dr. Phil show, and the guy says that he was nervous and thought Phil would tear him apart, but he ended up taking his side and after it was over Phil bent over and told him that he had a really cool Stormtrooper costume (or something to that effect). Know you know as much as we do I think. Did I leave anything out anybody?
Yeah, I know Dr. Phil. I watch his shows sometimes. But I never thought he was a Star Wars nut.
Hyde: Fezzy, man, it's Star Wars.