[lit-ideas] Re: Yoda failed
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 18:16:38 EST
Am I going to have to throw out my Andy/Irene cheat sheet and start a whole
new one? God, this list can be work.
Julie Krueger
Warming up -- it's 9 degrees!
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Date: 1/17/2007 4:22:57 P.M. Central Standard Time From:
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Posting as just plain 'Eric' and writing in capitals. This isn't the usual
Yost. I suspect an imposter.
And dissing Yoda! Only the Sith would diss Yoda....
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Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 9:52 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Yoda failed
> Simon Ward wrote:
>
> 1. The Dark Lord creates a false enemy and through this starts a war.
>
> IF ONLY THE USA HAD THE LUXURY OF FALSE ENEMIES! HOW QUAINT OF THOSE
> STELLAR SAMURAI TO HAVE ONE.
>
> 2. He attains democratic power under false pretenses.
>
> PICK A PRESIDENT OR PRIME MINISTER OR SULTAN OR HONCHO ... FILL IN THE
> BLANKS AND THEN DEFINE "FALSE."
>
> 3. He actively supports the fight against the false enemy.
>
> 9/11 COMBINED WITH BAD INTEL WILL DO THAT. GOOD THING SADDAM WASN'T A
> FALSE ENEMY ON TOP OF THAT.
>
> 4. He turns against the democratic system and manipulates its demise using
> emergency powers made necesary by the war.
>
> MUST BE VLADIMIR PUTIN YOU'RE DESCRIBING. DEMOCRACY'S ALIVE AND WELL HERE
> ... THOUGH I WONDER WHAT THE DEMS ARE DOING IN THEIR 100 HOURS ... MORE
> FOOTBALL BREAKS MAYBE?
>
>
> 5. He sees through the destruction of the false enemy thereby ending the
> war.
>
> IF ONLY! THEN WE COULD ATTEND TO OTHER THREATS.
>
> 6. He creates an empire.
>
> NOT MUCH ANNEXING GOING ON HERE. MUST BE DESCRIBING CHINA'S RAPE OF TIBET
> OR THE ISLAMIST ATTEMPT TO COLONIZE NORTH AFRICA.
>
> Try watching the later films with this model in mind. Intruiging.
>
> MAY THE FARCE BE WITH YOU.
>
> The most amusing thing about Stars Wars for me is Yoda. When Yoda has lots
> of time on his little puppet hands, he speaks in Pennsylvania Dutch
> syntax, e.g., "Around the survivors, a perimeter make!" However, when he's
> really pressed for time in a fight, he reverts to standard American
> business syntax, e.g., "Concentrate your fire on the large ship!"
>
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