``Turn off your targeting computer, Luke. Software sucks. Hardware sucks. You have a better chance of making this shot by guessing.'' -- Rodger Donaldson
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[Re: Anakin building C3PO out of spare parts for free]
What I wanna know is where he got the language databases for the over six million forms of communication. Building a droid doesn't look too hard, based on evidence. Populating that droid with knowledge that is likely exceedingly expensive is not a walk in the park. -- Eric The Read
"alt.binaries.warez.protocol-droids.c3" This also explains what tempted him to his first steps toward the dark side. It's only a very short step from that to Palpatine seeing a post along the lines of: "CA|\| NE1 0N Th]5 BB0ARD T3Ll M3 H0w 2 GeT KeWL S]Th P0WeRZ!?!?!?!??!?" The rest is, well, a couple more overly-hyped ILM graphics demos. -- henke
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That's why there's no toilets on the Enterprise. They just beam it straight into the mass tanks from your body, much more efficient. -- Peter da Silva
This gives new insight into why the engineering crew works so hard to get the system back online when the transporters go down. -- Ansel
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I'm an apatheist. The question is no longer interesting, and the answer no longer matters. --petro
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[...] and the French an excuse to use their traditional battle cry. --Firebeard
"We Surrender, here, have my daughter."? -- Paul Tomblin
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