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totus44 said:
It's a pretty big part of the cultural lexicon. Regarding the 2 trilogies, Empire Strikes Back is the best of the original series. Revenge of the Sith, is the best of the prequels.
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I preferred Return of the Jedi, but loved Empire Strikes back... it was the first I saw in the theater (5 out of the 6)... only one I didn't see (A New Hope) came out before I was born... so....
 
Hammerojustice said:
I preferred Return of the Jedi, but loved Empire Strikes back... it was the first I saw in the theater (5 out of the 6)... only one I didn't see (A New Hope) came out before I was born... so....
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Jabba the Hut made his appearance in Return of the Jedi......
...hilarious scene in the intergalactic "night club" where a rat is scooting past him and he scoops it up and swallows it as if it's routine snack.
 
NTM- "Star Wars" has been publishing Comic Books of many various other stories, for the better part of 30 years........


1st time I ever laid eyes on a F-117A, lacking only its Wings, I swore I was looking at something out of Star Wars........back then such was true, now, nothing surprises me....

Sci-Fi has long inspired dreams turned into realities, ie, Jules Verne, (without the Launch Cannon)........100 yrs prior, Verne wrote a shit load of information, in which Apollo Program Engineer's, found to be eerily on the mark. I have no problem lumping George Lucas with Jules Verne......!!!
 
Mattingly23NY said:
NTM- "Star Wars" has been publishing Comic Books of many various other stories, for the better part of 30 years........


1st time I ever laid eyes on a F-117A, lacking only its Wings, I swore I was looking at something out of Star Wars........back then such was true, now, nothing surprises me....

Sci-Fi has long inspired dreams turned into realities, ie, Jules Verne, (without the Launch Cannon)........100 yrs prior, Verne wrote a shit load of information, in which Apollo Program Engineer's, found to be eerily on the mark. I have no problem lumping George Lucas with Jules Verne......!!!
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HG Wells
Phillip K. Dick
Harlan Ellison ("Dangerous Visions")
 
Rick2583 said:
Who else said it?
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OK, here's my post (#23) including the post of you (post #21) responding to stampedehero (post #20)....

Maybe we need to get you into an Alzheimer's program???

Stampedehero's (post #20)
stampedehero said:
Count Dooku.... Who the hell is that???
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Your post (#21) in response to his is here...
Rick2583 said:
That had me scratching my head also, never heard of him. And I remember him most with the stache.
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Seriously?

To answer your questions, he's a character from Star Wars... Predecessor to Darth Vader, the apprentice to the Emperor (Senator) Palpatine aka Darth Sidious
 
Sorry Steve I thought post #16 was in response to post #26 who was responding to post #5 in regards to post #12 answering to post #22 who was responding to post #17.

But I could be mistaken.
 
Hammerojustice said:
OK, here's my post (#23) including the post of you (post #21) responding to stampedehero (post #20)....

Maybe we need to get you into an Alzheimer's program???

Stampedehero's (post #20)

Your post (#21) in response to his is here...

Seriously?

To answer your questions, he's a character from Star Wars... Predecessor to Darth Vader, the apprentice to the Emperor (Senator) Palpatine aka Darth Sidious
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Don't harp on it. There is more excitement ahead. FYI: I knew a close friend who suffered from Alzheimers and it was very depressing looking at him fade into the shadows like a ghost.
 
stampedehero said:
Don't harp on it. There is more excitement ahead. FYI: I knew a close friend who suffered from Alzheimers and it was very depressing looking at him fade into the shadows like a ghost.
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I didn't mean to make fun of Alzheimer's, only Rick...
 
^^^ Yup,..I know hammer was joking but I also know that anyone who has ever witnessed a loved one afflicted with that horrible disease, cringes whenever they hear the word Alzheimer's mentioned.
 
yankeesince59 said:
^^^ Yup,..I know hammer was joking but I also know that anyone who has ever witnessed a loved one afflicted with that horrible disease, cringes whenever they hear the word Alzheimer's mentioned.
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Those who've known Hammer long enough, like most of us here, always know, not only when Hammer is joking, but each other also, in most incidents, IMHO......

Steve'O doesn't have a mean bone in his body, lest one is a Bosox Fan, then its free shots all around.......and well deserved......besides any thing thrown at Rick is Fair Game.......eh, et tu Rick...? Turn yer hearing aides on Ricky, we can't hear ya'......

I've lost my Grandmother, and countless Aunts both paternal & maternal, who have become literal vegetables due to Alzheimer's, (what once was called "Senility" became "Alz", then renamed to appease (who?), those with Alz Disease? By changing once again the term to Dementia. My own Mother, who passed away on M's Day 013, passed more due to COPD, and CGH, yet had a pretty horrid case of Dementia.

Life get's hairy, when your Mom calls you by your only Brother's name, in her last yr of life, constantly forgetting he passed in 08......and could not identify me from My Brother; now that was eerie as hell, gave me Chicken Skin......

Those who haven't passed yet, (aunts and uncles), 3/4ths of those suffer from Dementia......Alzheimer Wards in Convalescent Hospitals are hairy, much like existing in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".....never a fun place to be in, extremely disturbing, and depressing, as any visitor knows, most patients in those Wards, will never see Freedom again, while awaiting and bidding their limited time...... In my very large basically old Catholic Farming Families, of relatives, Our family genetics, have taken damn near every senior, by Heart Attacks, or Dementia related degradation of Life itself......
 
On top of all I said just prior, its imperative for any disabled person, to not take offense with all one's disabilities, as laughing at the short hand Life gave us, is essential to not becoming a statistic of our own circumstance(s). Or, closed minded, to those afflicted with other horrors, some much worse than others with Alzheimers/Dementia.....

What I'm trying to say, for those who are disabled, at some point in time, they have to laugh at the atrocities of life, otherwise they or; one will either go nuts, or cry (as Robin Williams put it)......

I once had a day to day desk Calendar. Each day of the year, had 1- Cartoon and "jingo" saying for all 365 days. The Desk top calendar artist, also created the many one liners, or jokes, for His Pics, which were ALL about either Paraplegics, or Quadriplegics......His Humor was outrageously funny, his drawings created by holding pencils with his toes, which were quit unique & good drawings.........

This man, who's lost both arms, directed his life, to walking right into the eye of a Tiger or Hurricane. He became so enamored with an approach to combat his own depression, or anxieties, or any other emotion; brought on by the pains, trials, with fighting to regain form, after a dehabilitating disabilities. Enough of a profound impact, to learn to deal with life, short changed, while trying to find meaning in His Life, and how to adapt, with what others often easily give up on, and find NO humor in their own lives. This Artistic War Vet, and Healer of His own dilemna; would draw a pic for each day, then insert his lines into a Joke format........it takes huge balls, to laugh at one's own loss of arms, or legs, et al.

Two hilarious jokes, on that Calendar were:

1- A Pic showing a Dr in His Smock, standing in front of the patient door, the patient bending over a exam table, for a prostate exam, with the Dr. unseen by the patient, with a hard on exposed, the saying: "Never let a paraplegic Dr. give you a Prostate Exam".........

2- 2nd joke, was a pic of a body floating in a pool, torso only, joke read: "What do you call a Quadraplegic who loves to swim?" Answer- B-O-B......easy one for me to remember.......

when their is no negative intent, then no ones feelings should be hurt. IMO, those who are hurt, or disabled. Pain is a part of their every breath, while they more than anything, anyone; need an outlet to vent their frustrations, depression, anxiety, PTSD; let alone pains.....it was this mans outlet to draw, and make others laugh, at his own lack of limbs.
 
Mattingly23NY said:
Those who've known Hammer long enough, like most of us here, always know, not only when Hammer is joking, but each other also, in most incidents, IMHO......

Steve'O doesn't have a mean bone in his body, lest one is a Bosox Fan, then its free shots all around.......and well deserved......besides any thing thrown at Rick is Fair Game.......eh, et tu Rick...? Turn yer hearing aides on Ricky, we can't hear ya'......

I've lost my Grandmother, and countless Aunts both paternal & maternal, who have become literal vegetables due to Alzheimer's, (what once was called "Senility" became "Alz", then renamed to appease (who?), those with Alz Disease? By changing once again the term to Dementia. My own Mother, who passed away on M's Day 013, passed more due to COPD, and CGH, yet had a pretty horrid case of Dementia.

Life get's hairy, when your Mom calls you by your only Brother's name, in her last yr of life, constantly forgetting he passed in 08......and could not identify me from My Brother; now that was eerie as hell, gave me Chicken Skin......

Those who haven't passed yet, (aunts and uncles), 3/4ths of those suffer from Dementia......Alzheimer Wards in Convalescent Hospitals are hairy, much like existing in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".....never a fun place to be in, extremely disturbing, and depressing, as any visitor knows, most patients in those Wards, will never see Freedom again, while awaiting and bidding their limited time...... In my very large basically old Catholic Farming Families, of relatives, Our family genetics, have taken damn near every senior, by Heart Attacks, or Dementia related degradation of Life itself......
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Thank you brother!
 
Mattingly23NY said:
On top of all I said just prior, its imperative for any disabled person, to not take offense with all one's disabilities, as laughing at the short hand Life gave us, is essential to not becoming a statistic of our own circumstance(s). Or, closed minded, to those afflicted with other horrors, some much worse than others with Alzheimers/Dementia.....

What I'm trying to say, for those who are disabled, at some point in time, they have to laugh at the atrocities of life, otherwise they or; one will either go nuts, or cry (as Robin Williams put it)......

I once had a day to day desk Calendar. Each day of the year, had 1- Cartoon and "jingo" saying for all 365 days. The Desk top calendar artist, also created the many one liners, or jokes, for His Pics, which were ALL about either Paraplegics, or Quadriplegics......His Humor was outrageously funny, his drawings created by holding pencils with his toes, which were quit unique & good drawings.........

This man, who's lost both arms, directed his life, to walking right into the eye of a Tiger or Hurricane. He became so enamored with an approach to combat his own depression, or anxieties, or any other emotion; brought on by the pains, trials, with fighting to regain form, after a dehabilitating disabilities. Enough of a profound impact, to learn to deal with life, short changed, while trying to find meaning in His Life, and how to adapt, with what others often easily give up on, and find NO humor in their own lives. This Artistic War Vet, and Healer of His own dilemna; would draw a pic for each day, then insert his lines into a Joke format........it takes huge balls, to laugh at one's own loss of arms, or legs, et al.

Two hilarious jokes, on that Calendar were:

1- A Pic showing a Dr in His Smock, standing in front of the patient door, the patient bending over a exam table, for a prostate exam, with the Dr. unseen by the patient, with a hard on exposed, the saying: "Never let a paraplegic Dr. give you a Prostate Exam".........

2- 2nd joke, was a pic of a body floating in a pool, torso only, joke read: "What do you call a Quadraplegic who loves to swim?" Answer- B-O-B......easy one for me to remember.......

when their is no negative intent, then no ones feelings should be hurt. IMO, those who are hurt, or disabled. Pain is a part of their every breath, while they more than anything, anyone; need an outlet to vent their frustrations, depression, anxiety, PTSD; let alone pains.....it was this mans outlet to draw, and make others laugh, at his own lack of limbs.
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I couldn't have said it better myself Rob,.....................................................................well actually I could have but you done real good. Laughter in ANY situation is the best medicine.
 
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