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Star Wars Fan Puts Himself in Carbonite
sneezesteve writes "How do you secure your nerd-cred for eternity? By acquiring a life-size replica of Han Solo in Carbonite, having Han's face removed, and replacing it with your own. 'It is made from fiberglass, and the short story is that a friend who is a special effects guy owned the piece, which was a direct casting off the original prop. He was moving, (aka getting married and yelled at) and asked me if I wanted it. I screamed a huge lispy "Yes!", and picked it up, but knew I wanted to do something cool with it. So I called my other nerdy special effects pals, and they offered to replace Harrison Ford's face with mine. I was so tired of hearing this offer in my daily life, but decided to finally consider it, so off it went.'"
From the looks of those pictures his head is a little too big, just like his ego undoubtedly must be.
it all sounded pretty cool, but this bit, well I just don't know.
The one thing I didn't know until later was that my friend Dana had been holding his bare ass and balls directly in front of my algae covered face while my head was encased. Talk about a missed opportunity.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
That's no moon...
We can only hope the rest of the fan base follows. It would make it much easier for their mothers to dust around them when they cleaned their basements.
Bring him and the wookie to me.
...if he survives the freezing process.Let's hope not, for humanities sake. He might breed otherwise.
Who is more foolish? the fool who posts the quote, or the fool who comments on it?
He would have been better off getting his face remodelled to look like Harison's.
ccalam - acoustic versions of new songs.
They better be, he'll be living with them for a looooong time.
Table-ized A.I.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
Its like hundreds of megabits of bandwidth suddenly cried out and were suddenly silenced.
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It's spelled "virginity," not "nerd-cred."
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I can see it now: "If this were an original Harrison Ford model, it would be worth $5 million, but because your grandfather's brother* replaced Harrison Ford's handsome mug with Butt Head's, the piece is now only worth $5,000**"
Great niece nods and grits her teeth look while trying to hide her disappointment/embarrassment.
*has to be handed down to nieces/nephews -- no way this guy is breeding
** $5 adjusted for inflation
Maybe we need a new word for the consumers who enjoy a particular activity and those who are fanatical about it.
But how do you name... that which has no life?
Tsunami -- You can't bring a good wave down!