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old news; nevermind :)

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:) (I had no idea that this movement had grown to these numbers!)
Nearly 400,000 "Jedis" living in Britain
Sunday, February 16, 2003 Posted: 9:51 PM EST (0251 GMT)

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- It's official -- "Star Wars" has created almost 400,000 Jedis in Britain.

More than 390,000 people listed their religion as "Jedi" on their 2001 census form, more than those who said they were Jewish, Buddhist or Sikh, the Office for National Statistics said Thursday.

The Jedis declared their belief after a campaign on the Internet asked people to "do it because you love Star Wars" or "just to annoy people."

"Star Wars devotees stated their faith as 'Jedi' in the mistaken belief that if 10,000 did so it would be recognized as an official religion," a national statistics spokesman said.

In the films, the Jedi knights are a noble order of protectors unified by their belief in a universal power called the Force.
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Old news x2.
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Old news but the article is new, why didn't cnn bother doing this last year?
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cause its not worth reporting :D
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Old news?!? The article was posted on cnn roughly two hours ago!
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and theres 2 other threads on the very subject despite the fact that BBC reported this over a year ago.
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It was posted by at least two people here in the past several days.
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Spanky The Dolphin wrote:It was posted by at least two people here in the past several days.
Oh. Didn't realize that; I don't spend very much time here these days.

My bad :)
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Yeah, don't worry about it, I just happen to notice everything.

And I let people know it, much to their annoyace. :mrgreen:
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s'alright; someone's got to keep us low-post-count folks in line :mrgreen:
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Yeah bitch, (some slurs that some would consider inappropriate so I will not post it). Damn strait! :D
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