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   Derek Broughton to All   
   Re: Isaac Asimov   
   17 Aug 09 17:02:44   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Öjevind Lång wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "Morgoth's Curse"  skrev i meddelandet   
   > news:5vmi851k0225aimd5gil6dnemlqchs8eq1@4ax.com...   
   >   
   > [snip]   
   >   
   >> I don't know why, but I suddenly have this mental image of Ojevind   
   >> sitting in front of his typewriter in 1977 methodically listing all of   
   >> the flaws in "Star Wars."  ^_^   
   >   
   > The one I really thought took the cake was Han Solo bragging about how   
   > fast his ship was, how it traversed a certain distance   
      
   The Kessel run, iirc.   
      
   > at a pace of heap many parsecs. [SCREEEAM]   
      
   You think he said that?  Try checking again.  I believe by the time it was   
   available on DVD it said something like "standard time parts" rather than   
   "parsecs"   
   --   
   derek   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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