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   Re: Isaac Asimov   
   19 Aug 09 01:32:12   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "Derek Broughton"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:4kpol6-u4i.ln1@morgen.pointerstop.ca...   
   > Öjevind Lång wrote:   
      
    [snip]   
      
   >> 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"   
      
    Maybe so, but in the original film, he did say that he travelled a certain   
   distance at so and so many parsecs because his ship as so fast. Quite   
   possibly they changed that later because someone pointed out to them that   
   that is gibberish.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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