I am kind of mad that you spoiled me for RoTS with your tag.

Damn, I'm so sorry.

But I'm also much, much stupider than the rest of the world, because I didn't even give a moment's thought to the implications of the quotation, beyond the fact that it made me laugh. Um. I hadn't seen the movie myself at the time that I chose it for a tag, and when I did see the movie I wasn't actually expecting the implied scene. It's only reading your response that I've gone "Huh. Oh yeah, I should've been expecting that..."

Which just goes to show how uninterested I was in what was going to happen plotwise, I suppose. Um. Or that I'm actually the world's biggest bimbo. Or that the whole merit sticker thing just struck me as immensely funny.

Will change tag.

The tag didn't spoil me, but this conversation...

No worries though.

as far as I knew it was pretty common knowledge, at least among fandom.

I had no idea! And here I thought I was Missy Insider because a friend of mine had the Star Wars screensaver pack for her computer (circa 1997). That was where I found out about the redshirt friend from Tattooine, and a number of bizarro factoids from early versions of the Star Wars script, scrolling vertically.

(The best one was one where your screen would just be normal, and then suddenly, DARTH VADER CLOSEUP!! and then would go back to normal for another couple of minutes. Beat the jawas-steal-aspects-of-your-desktop hands down.)

as far as I knew it was pretty common knowledge, at least among fandom.

I heard about it when I was a kid, but I forget where. I did read some conjecture a few years ago, wondering if it would really happen that way. The gist of it was that a lot of fans were going to be very dissapointed if it didn't.

as far as I knew it was pretty common knowledge, at least among fandom.

Yup. I remember hearing it early on. It may have been in the novelization of the original movie.

Fic announcement: Atavistic Pie, Teyla after the Siege, Part II. Rated teen for ooky images.

I didn't even give a moment's thought to the implications of the quotation, beyond the fact that it made me laugh.

I know that - and it is funny! I don't blame you for wanting to quote it at all, and I knew if you realized it could be spoilery you wouldn't have used it. That's why I wasn't going to mention it. But then some random RoTS talk happened in Firefly, and suddenly I felt like I needed to get it off my chest. It's OK - I forgive you. *hugs*

brenda! are you kidding? I was trying to be so careful - I whitefonted and everything. If I did cause you to be spoiled by talking about it, I really am sorry.

My question about that "other penis" story, which, by the way, all discussion of such should be whitefonted, because...well, it just should, is this: where does the "Clark has a 15 foot penis" fic fit in with this story?

My opinion of the "other penis" discussion is that we obviously need new episodes of BSG stat!

... I was going to say something. No, really.

Oh! Speaking of geeky-Star-Wars cred, I was convinced in college by some upperclassmen that their use of the term "Hoser!" was due to a bit from Star Wars. I know that this makes no sense at all (upperclassmen told me a lot of strange things when I was a wee first-year, I don't know why) (or actually, I think I was a sophomore when this happened. 16 or 17, anyway). Nevertheless, this is true: if you watch the fight on Hoth in Empire Strikes Back, at one point you will see a walker fire into a clump of rebels (behind some kind of snow fort, I believe), sending them flying. One of them, while flying through the air, yells something. I have no idea what he's actually saying. "Gyoza"? "Gozer"? "Oh, sir"? But I will forevermore hear him to be saying "Hoooosseeeerrrrr!"

This post went on longer than intended. I blame the gin. And the tonic. Possibly the lime. Maybe the sleeping pill and blood loss. Anyway, my profuse apologies.