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|    Derek Broughton to Jeff Urs    |
|    Re: Isaac Asimov    |
|    25 Aug 09 15:27:48    |
      60c2fddc       XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis       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              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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