{"id":2155,"date":"2011-01-11T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:46:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:46:11","slug":"geek-cred-best-served-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/01\/11\/geek-cred-best-served-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Cred Best Served Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shall we expect REVENGE<\/strong> when the Jedi RETURN<\/strong>? When they RETURN<\/strong>, are they going to dole out any REVENGE?<\/strong><\/p>\n

How’s Luke making out with the Bionic hand? Can he open beers without an opener? Does he still need an oven mit?<\/p>\n

Is Jedi plural or singular?<\/p>\n

This is one of the last of the patches I received from the Star Wars Fan Club<\/a>.<\/strong> It probably wasn’t too much later than this that I let the membership lapse.<\/p>\n

Obviously the folks at Lucasfilm were still on the fence about the whole REVENGE versus RETURN thing. I’ve hung on to this for years figuring I would one day sell it and be living out scenes from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. <\/strong><\/em>It didn’t work out that way. I still have it <\/strong><\/em>along with a whole lot of other curious clutter. Oh, well.
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Shall we expect REVENGE when the Jedi RETURN? When they RETURN, are they going to dole out any REVENGE? How’s Luke making out with the Bionic hand? Can he open beers without an opener? 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