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   Derek Broughton to All   
   Re: Isaac Asimov   
   19 Aug 09 09:01:18   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Öjevind Lång wrote:   
      
   > "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.   
      
   That's precisely what happened.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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