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   John W Kennedy to All   
   Re: Isaac Asimov   
   18 Aug 09 15:02:28   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 8/17/09 10:29 AM, 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 at a pace of heap   
   > many parsecs. [SCREEEAM]   
      
   Strictly speaking, his statement (at least in the original English) does   
   not specify speed -- only that he achieved a specific voyage within a   
   certain number of parsecs.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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