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“Produced by the Students and Faculty of the Digital Video Program at University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona”
I do my best to be tolerant of other peoples’ hobbies, but I never could grok the Star Warts. Just a failure of the imagination, I’m afraid.
Amir Khalid
It’s amusing, let’s give it that.
This should be worth looking at: apparently Nelson Mandela, whose passing is being mourned all over.the world, is an object of hatred for Americans of a certain political persuasion.
NotMax
Never quite grokked why the videos on your posts so often show up completely differently on the front page than on the comments page.
Front page on this one, for example, is this, which made this old geezer scratch the head as to what the frack it had to do with Star Wars.
billgerat
Mama, Han just killed a man,
Aimed a gun at his green head,
pulled the trigger, now he’s dead
Mama, the Force has just begun,
And now I’m gone, I’ve hyperspaced away…
NotMax
72 years since attack on Pearl Harbor today.
Just felt it should be noted.
billgerat
And that’s a thing no parody should ever touch. Today I remember Donald K. Ross, the first Medal of Honor winner in WW II for his service in keeping the USS Nevada with power during the attack. He passed away on May 27, 1992, at age 81 in my hometown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_K._Ross
raven
@NotMax: My dad was in front of the YMCA in San Diego when word came to get back to his ship. He said there were guys that had been in the Navy one day. They boarded and headed to the Pacific and he was there until the end of the war.
I just sent a note to my co-worker whose father is a Pearl Survivor and still with us.
raven
Scoreboard on the bridge of the USS Crosby APD-17.
raven
@NotMax: With David Crosby on the intro!
Pogonip
I honor the living from Pearl Harbor and pray for the dead on this day.
Over on dailypuppy.com, today’s pup is half beagle and half St. Bernard. The owner doesn’t say but I’m guessing the beagle is the father, seeing as how it’s difficult to park a Cadillac in a closet. Anyway, the offspring is the only puppy I’ve ever seen who wasn’t cute. I didn’t think it was possible for a puppy not to be cute.
She sounds like a wonderful dog–but she ain’t cute.
PurpleGirl
Two of my uncles (on my mother’s side) were in the Navy and at Pearl that day. (The armed services have been a jobs program for a long time…) One uncle saved some big-wig officer and his name is on some plaque.
AL: I don’t get the singing of the Star Wars story to Bohemian Rapsody. The sets, costumes and stuff is all good. But what is the special reason to do this apart from doing it that way.
Baud
Could be worse.
They could have used Stairway to Heaven.
OzarkHillbilly
@billgerat:
What a pussy. Didn’t kill a single enemy soldier.
OK, just couldn’t resist. Quite a dude, that one. Half blind and refused med treatment.
OzarkHillbilly
@billgerat: In moderation. don’t have clue what line I crossed this time. Must be the one of “too much sarcasm”.
Sigh…
OzarkHillbilly
Meanwhile, we had a couple of eventful weather days. The Guardian even commented:
Missouri: from hot to cold in a day
Most of southern Missouri was under winter weather warnings, with up to eight inches of snow possible by Friday evening.
“Certainly power outages are going to be a real threat,” said Scott Truett, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in St Louis. As for driving, snow on top of ice “is a very bad combination,” Truett said.
Adding to Missouri’s woes was the frigid cold. Highs were mostly expected to reach only into the 20s or low 30s ( just below 0C), a sharp decline from highs in the 60s (just below 20C) in many places just 24 hours earlier. St Louis reached 69 degrees (21C) on Wednesday; afternoon temperatures on Thursday were 40 degrees colder.
Got about an inch of sleet with 3-4 inches of snow on top of that. Presently my thermometer reads minus 4 F. Predicted high of 18. Gonna get my granddaughter today (#1 son is still MIA) Probably spend it inside baking cookies (Thank you TaMara, a couple new ones to try) with maybe a foray into the snow with a sled. Gotta remember to get lots of hot chocolate and some coconut and chocolate chips.
Grumpy Code Monkey
That video needs to be double-billed with “Hardware Wars”.
Comrade Dread
I thought the most horrifying part was the sexy Mandalorian… until I saw the sexy Vader. That’s just all kinds of wrong, fellow nerds.
Ejoiner
I’d watch a whole trilogy based on the sexy Vader – and probably enjoy it 1000x more than I did watching the last three!!
CaseyL
@Pogonip: Nonsense. All puppies are cute by definition. This one… just look at the eyes! And the ears! (Agree that the Dad had to be the beagle. In which case, either they used a position out of a Canine Kama Sutra, or he bought a stepladder.)
I liked the SW/BH parody, though the POV kept changing. It must be a reflection of how much I love the Bohemian Rhapsody, and how much affection I still have for Star Wars, despite everything Lucas has done to shit on his own legacy.
Death Panel Truck
@OzarkHillbilly:
Yeah, you could have. Too bad you didn’t.