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   Derek Broughton to Jeff Urs   
   Re: Isaac Asimov   
   25 Aug 09 15:27:48   
   
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   From: derek@pointerstop.ca   
      
   Jeff Urs wrote:   
      
   > On Aug 24, 4:16 pm, m...@web1.calweb.com (Mike Van Pelt) wrote:   
   >> What a "Kessel Run" was was never defined in the movie.   
   >   
   > Und was bedeutet "Kessel"? Kettle. And what is the highest purpose of   
   > a kettle? Brewing, of course.   
   >   
   > The Kessel Run is a beer run (I believe that Merry and Pippin used to   
   > call the ride out to The Golden Perch the Kessel run), and Han was   
   > just boasting about how good the route-finding algorithm in the   
   > Millennium Falcon's GPS-equivalent was.   
      
   A little better than a Drunkard's Walk, I take it.   
   --   
   derek   
      
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