Let’s all break out our space oboes to celebrate today’s holiday: Star Wars Day! Personally, I feel we all should have been given the day off so we could’ve ceremoniously put on our Stormtrooper costumes piece by piece (that alone would take an hour), light our candles in observance of Obi-Wan Kenobi, and perform a Gregorian chant version of the Mos Eisley Cantina song while burning the evil demon that is The Phantom Menace. Oh well. Instead, I’ll just pick up my copy of The Empire Strikes Back and hold it like I did by the lake on Naboo.
How are you celebrating Star Wars day? And let’s go fight with some drunken aliens on Tatooine, shall we?
Since it’s SO freakin’ hot around here, I was thinking of celebrating by going to the beach.
The only problem is that I don’t like the sand. It’s coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
Hahahahahaha
Nice very nice, if you guys want to celebrate, check out RedLetterMedia’s hilarious take on the Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones – these are possibly the definitive pieces showing George Lucas is a hack
Han Solo shot first!
Star Wars day should be May 25th, the anniversary of the release of the first film.
Spoil sport! May the fourth be with you. Do you not get it?
Why can’t we have more than one Star Wars day? There’s more than one trilogy isn’t there?
Yeah, I get it! Today should be National Lisp Day.
let the wookie win
Kate, what the F*CK are you talking about??? Do you just make this sh*t up as you go along at this pathetic job of yours???
Nerfherder.
don’t forget scruffy looking
Eric F., you are quite an unlikeable fellow! Watching a bear or other large beast tickle you for sport would be quite a show indeed! I feel compelled to ask you which is the more pathetic scenario: getting paid to write about the things you love for a living, or posting mean-spirited, curse word-peppered, over-punctuated posts while you do whatever it s that makes you so sour? I hope that some day in the future, should you trip on one of the many newspapers or other ephemera you keep around your living space, that your cat coughs a hairball on or around your face. That would surely be most unpleasant — as unpleasant as your above comment! And for the record, my churlish contemporary, Ms. Ward did *not* make up ‘Star Wars’ Day. One need only look it up on Wikipedia or any other source of information to be found on the Internet to see that it has been around for several years. Good day!
For the uneducated, why is today Star Wars Day?
It’s because of the pun. It being May 4th, “May the ‘fourth’ be with you”
Oh, thanks to you and all others for explaining it to me. But like all puns, I die a little each time I hear/read them.
Yogi, Stay away from Sex and the City. It would be lethal.
May the fourth be with you = “May the force be with you”
Wordplay!
“May the Fourth” be with you.
A nerdy pun for people who like nerdy movies. I’m one of ‘em!
(Yes, this third reply was totally necessary…)
The Star Wars films are NOT “nerdy” movies. Nerdy people just ruined them.
They so should’ve given me the day off…
Oh well, I’ll just watch the originals (on VHS, cause that’s how I like them) later to celebrate.
Enough of the hating on the new trilogy!
What’s up with the soundtrack on the clip? It sounds like a bunch of high school kids re-recorded the audio track and dubbed it in.
And Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones sucks.
Wrong.
Either that or Alec Guinness lost his Scottish accent.
Will a “Lost” Star Wars reference suffice? How about a Han Solo fantasy?