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Star Wars Fans in Line... at the Wrong Theater
Rollie Hawk writes "More than a month before the premiere of Revenge of the Sith, fans are already lining up. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, eleven diehard Star Wars fans (i.e. lifelong virgins) are waiting for tickets to go on sale. Unfortunately, it appears that the guys with girlfriends will have the last laugh as the Chinese Theater isn't even premiering the film."
eleven diehard Star Wars fans (i.e. lifelong virgins)
I'd agree, except they've a spokeswoman called Sarah (who could get it with the rest at the drop of a hat) and there's a precedent for Star Wars lines.
This will be the first SW Movie since they started the re-releases I won't be in line for. Though that's more due to work than a lack of desire to be out there camped in front of the theater. Though my stays (2 days 1 night) were never as long as these guys out in CA, they were long enough to get the most enjoyment out of the experience.
The line is more fun than the movie, by far. Everyone out there is there because they're dorks, nerds, geeks. They enjoy Star Wars, and a film premier is likely one of the few times they get to gather with other fans and geek out about their hobby. It's always a good time with people sitting around playing cards, eating pizza, drinking soda, playing board games (video games one year when the theater owner rolled out a TV on a cart for us to use) etc. Essentially the line ends up being a day or two long party.
So many here love to mock the line goers, but how many of those people have been to a Linux, gaming or hacker convention? How many have gone to some sort of industry conference? It's the same thing. Lots of geeks gathering in one place to talk about the stuff they enjoy.
The line is more fun than the movies ever are. By the time the opening crawl starts on the screen, I've been awake for 2-3 days and soon I'm nodding off. I don't care though cause I know I'm not missing anything, I already experienced the most fun part.
While I won't be in line this year, I will be thinking of my friends back home who will be.
Speaking of call...
(323)462-9609
This is the number to the payphone outside of Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Enjoy.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Just go to any book store and read the official book adaptation or the graphic novel (comic book) for episode 3. All was revealed some time ago, not that the plot of this movie is any great secret to begin with.
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The conception of Jesus was not the "immaculate conception"; the conception of Mary was; even though she was conceived through normal means, the Catholic Church decided that she'd been given a singular gift of Grace, making her the only person ever born without the stain of Original Sin, to explain how she could possibly be a suitable vessel for Jesus before he died to forgive that sin.
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How original.
Wishing I was a millionaire since 1969.
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Enjoy. This guy was insane.
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-- Heisenberg may have slept here.
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It's also a typo. In the original Hebrew, the word used meant "without child" or "young girl". Basically, "not a mother", nothing to do with "not had sex", or "a regular on slashdot". So, one of the cornerstones of Christianity is a translation error.
Makes you think...
...that Luke and Leia are brother and sister, wouldn't playing Luke and Leia would be like...um...you know...
I am not merely a "consumer" or a "taxpayer". I am a Citizen of the State of Texas
Not really.. "Alma" can refer to either a virgin or a young woman.. The passage in Isaiah was relevant to the contemporaries in that a young woman did give birth and fulfilled that specific prophecy, but also as a foreshadowing of the Messiah.. Just as Gen 3:15 refers to enmity between "the woman's seed" and the serpent..
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A bit off-topic, but hey..
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The tradition of popes taking names from predecessors dates to an early time in the Church when a certain man named Mercury became Pope. As he thought it inappropriate to have the head of the Christian Church named after a pagan deity he took the name of a predecessor. The tradition stuck.
So a pope taking a name such as that would be rather preposterous.
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I'm very interested in bible translation issues. And since this is a new testament concept, how does hebrew play into this? And was the error caused when going from aramaic to greek or greek to english?
Disconnect your television. Do your own research. Draw your own conclusions. They're probably lying. Don't be a sheep.
It's not a typo; you just didn't finish the story.
Matthew 1:18 This is how the birth of Jesus Christ came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.
Triumph (the insult comic dog) is a regular feature on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. One of the star wars clips is on ifilm and there's a link there to the other one.
You will either laugh your ass off, or hate it. There's no middle ground.
Nope, that guy stole it too. The original is from the Armchair Anarchist's Almanac
As other replies have pointed out, the parent post is plagiarized. However, I would like to add that in addition to being plagiarized, the parent post is fictional. There was no pope elected in 1866. There was no need to elect a pope at that point, as Pope Pius IX (born GIOVANNI MARIA MASTAI-FERRETTI) was alive and well. He was pope from 1846-78. This can easily be verified by consulting http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12272b.htm, a complete listing of popes from an online catholic encyclopedia.
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Incidentally, the shortest reigning pope, according to wikipedia, was # Urban VII (September 15 - September 27, 1590): reigned on 13 calendar days. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_10_shortest-
another study i recently learnt in my psych class is that people how have high homophobia tend to get more aroused when watching same sex (male or female) erotic films.
the study was done on middle age men and they took a survey to have their homophobia rated. the independent variable was the erotic film displayed (opposite sexes vs same sexes) and the dependent variable was the increase in radius of the penis.
low homophobic men's penis grew radially larger than high homophobic men when watching opposite sex erotic films. however, high homophobic men's penis grew radially larger than low homophobic men when watching same sex erotic films.
this led to the conclusion that high homophobic men are actually in denial and has utilized one of our defense mechanisms known as reaction formation to help them cope with this denial.
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I found this on some site on the web:
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Well I've wrestled with reality for thirty five years doctor, and I'm happy to say I finally won out over it.