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A Quivering Mass of Star Wars
A number of people wrote in with the CNN
report about the film reel that had been stolen, is now returned. As well, you can take the Jedi Eliteness test, to see how elite you are-Elyjah also sent us the Star Wars Cantina. Copacabana has never been the same.
Actually, I just read the write up in the newspaper. The $60K figure that has been bandied about is what the owners of the theater (a small 140 seat theater) estimated as their losses. The cost for a print of the movie is $2500. This sounds a bit low, it may well be $2500 per reel. I'll pretend that the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram is occasionally factually correct.
At this point they're charged being charged with relatively minor crimes and are all ready talking plea bargaining.
The film that was returned was useless, damaged beyond repair (I live in the same neck of the woods as where it happened) the local news said last night. In the news report they said that a couple reals were returned but one was retrieved from a field someplace. Their lawyer said it was just a prank that went awry. Maybe a bit of jail time will help them figure out a better prank next time...
If you replace "Elite" with "3L33T", the test makes perfect sense.
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I've been hearing it for over a year on a Boston radio station, I'm glad I can finally have my very own copy.
Of all the comments I've ever posted, this is definately one of them
I meant to mention this song myself, but never got around to it.
The interesting thing is that it's been getting play on my local radio station, Alice 95.5 FM, lately. When I called them to ask who it was and on what album I could find it, they said it was "Barely Manilow" (which it isn't--as near as I can tell, "Barely Manilow" is the name of a font on some fonts download webpages) and that they got it off the Internet.
I had thought they meant they ordered the CD off the Internet...but then, after a little websearching, I found the page and noticed that, due to legal matters, they can only make it available as an MP3 and such--it's not on an album.
Which means that my local radio station downloaded an MP3 for the purpose of playing it over the air. Shhhh, don't tell the RIAA!
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WAV version: http://members.aol.com/manitsas2/cantina.wav (8-bit mono, 1.93MB)