It's supposed to be full of nutrients. Like a walking stick AND a snack!
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I suppose the gimer stick would be a design leftover from when Yoda was a blue small hobbit-like wizard in the early concept art. Sort of the equivalent of the hobbit's pipe.
I could be totally wrong, but it seems like that is that is going on.
As Sluggo suggested, the gimer stick must obviously not always been his cane, as it is no refered to.
By unlearning all I have learned, and reading that bit while pretending not to have ever heard the word before, it simply seems to me like Yoda is enjoying a nutritious and possibly delicious little snack while training his new pupil (or as Sluggo suggests, he might be enjoying himself some of the Shire's finest pipeweed).
And Gaffer's post almost caused me to die of suffocation I was laughing so hard.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
Hey, Yoda's been on Dagobah for a looooong time. Luke crash landing "by accident" is just the conjugal visit the little green man needs!
But seriously, re-reading the lines from the script, I guess I overlooked the description of the gimer stick, which makes the whole thing make much more sense. I just couldn't shake this image of Yoda with a cane sticking out of his mouth!
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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.
u know, i betcha' yoda sensed luke's arrival. otherwise how would he have known where to find him? i must say he puts on a good act pretending to be so mindless a jedi could tell him wat to do.
One thing that always bugs me about time in Star Wars was.... what is the reference?
I mean if we are talking about years, months and days... we assume that it refers to OUR earth standard. It's okay to talk with this reference between fans for an easy understanding. But it's silly to think about time in the whole Star Wars galaxy with our earth as reference.
So my question is: does the SW galaxy has a time reference? Something every sectors, or planets can refer?
It does. I've read some EU that refers to time. And I read somewhere (either on wikipedia or on a Star Wars website) that a standard day is equal to about 20 earth hours, I believe? Again, this is EU, and I could be misremembering.
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.
Given the short time of the original, I always get a kick out of Luke's response to the Rebel asking him if he wants a new Astromech. "Not on your life. This little droid and I have been through a lot together" or whatever he says.
At which point my daughter and I turn to each other and say, "Yeah. For all of two days!"
In fact, during those few days, what exactly did they go through together? After buying Artoo, Luke cleans him up resulting in Artoo accidentally projecting a holo-message. Then he runs away and gets Luke jumped by Tuskins. Then they hang out at Ben's place, and wind up in Mos Eisley (where the droids don't accompany Luke and Ben inside the cantina). On the Falcon, Artoo seems to hang out more with Chewie than Luke. Then at the Death Star again Luke goes off without Artoo.
I guess Artoo has charisma.
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Their are Hyperdrive charts in the roleplaying games (tabletop) that would help alot in answering this question. But of course thats all non-canon
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I heard from somewhere that the standard galactic day is measured in the same time as a day on Coruscant.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
this i'm not sure of. when ever i heard them say, "standard time" i assumed earth time. i'm assuming the same with speaking "basic" is meant speaking "english.
I'd be kind of silly for "standard time" to be based out of a planet that doesn't even exist in their galaxy, wouldn't it?
Ultimately, "basic" would be whatever language YOU speak. The idea is that there is a basic language used throughout the galaxy, obviously it isn't intended to be English, since that is an earth language and therefore from an entirely different galaxy, and developed much, much later (since SW is a long time ago), but as with most sci-fi, it is the convenience of storytelling that makes this language be English. If you were Russian and watching a Russian dub of the films, or translation of the novels, then basic would be Russian.
In other words, even though the story teller doesn't intend for the language to actually be your language, it would be unreasonable for him to invent a fake language, and make you read subtitles for the duration of the film.
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
C3PX said:In other words, even though the story teller doesn't intend for the language to actually be your language, it would be unreasonable for him to invent a fake language, and make you read subtitles for the duration of the film.
I guess some EU writer was channeling his inner-Tolkien when he made an article or something that the word 'consecrate' used by the Sssri-Bruk aliens in "Truce at Bakura" had no word in the Basic language, and the 'translator' had to pick a word that fit it in English for the books (English and Basic not being the same).
So when the Yuzong Vong had to 'consecrate' planets, and all the heroes had to talk about the Vong's plans to consecrate things, various other EU writers had to come up with all sorts of wacky reasons they could use that word.
The whole debacle was described in one of Abel Pena's blogs. It has to be the single most ridiculous situation that couldn't possibly matter to anyone but a half-dozen Star Wars enthusiast linguists without girlfriends.
LOL, as if Abel Pena has a girlfriend...
"Every time Warb sighs, an angel falls into a vat of mapel syrup." - Gaffer Tape
