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We’re getting close to the end of another month and close to the end of this short series.
Hope you enjoy this penultimate selection of perfectly times photos.
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I remember on this day last year starting out with great intentions of doing a Star Wars based post in tribute the day that has become known to many as ‘Star Wars Day’ because of the pun on the memorable phrase coined in the movie series “May the force be with you”.
Unfortunately I failed miserably last year because the post ended up as one about a guy who had built himself a really cool looking laser gun based on the phasers from Star Trek, not Star Wars. (Here’s the link if you missed it – click here)
So time to make amends.
Taken together the Star Wars series of movies has to be one of the most watched and highest grossing ever in the history of the cinema, if not THE greatest. The original 1977 movie itself has been estimated to have taken $2,710,800,000 in today’s inflation adjusted terms.
On top of that it has spawned a plethora of merchandising material from t-shirts to robots to gadgets to almost everything that could be seen in the movies themselves, and then some!
Top of everyone’s list has to be a lightsabre – I have never met anyone who has seen Star Wars who didn’t want to be the proud owner of a light sabre, including me.
From the first time you saw the flash of light and heard that ‘hummm’, way back in 1977, in Obi-Wan Kenobi’s bungalow, even though you didn’t really know what it was, you still knew you wanted one – needed one!
Well for a bit north of $100 now you can own one, the Star Wars Force FX Lightsaber! It has the light, it has the sound, and it looks the part – well almost.
From the sublime, however, we also have the ridiculous.
Somewhere out there is that great Universe you just know that at least one moron has subjected their poor dog to the indignity of a Star Wars suit. Poor mutt, even the look on its face says it all.
And there are lots of other stuff in between, including these
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Finally, an interesting little piece of trivia that would just as easily have taken its place in one of my ‘Did you know factoids’.
Star Wars fans were not the first to introduce the line “May the fourth be with you”. When the recently deceased Margaret Thatcher was elected Britain’s first female Prime Minister on May 4, 1979, her party placed an advertisement in The London Evening News that said “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.” This reading of the line has also been recorded in the UK Parliament’s Hansard.
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And they said it wouldn’t last.
Yes we are at part twenty-three of the classified ad disasters and the stupidity shows no sign of abating – thank goodness.
Here’s the latest batch.
Enjoy.
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and finally, at last a sport I could do really well,
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Today we are featuring Fasab’s Fun Fact File.
Another selection of random and interesting facts that may well come in handier than you think!
And you are about to read, or try to, some of the longest words ever presented in the history of blog!!!
Enjoy.
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Honeybees use the sun as a compass which helps them navigate
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An average driver spends approximately 2 hours and 14 minutes
kissing in their car in a lifetime
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The highest recorded speed of a sneeze is 165 km per hour
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Actress Jamie Lee Curtis invented a special diaper for babies that has a pocket
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On an American one-dollar bill,
there is an owl in the upper right-hand corner of the “1” encased in the “shield”
and a spider hidden in the front upper right-hand corner
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A dog by the name of Laika was launched into space
aboard the Russian spacecraft Sputnik 2 in 1957
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On average, an American home has 3-10 gallons of hazardous materials
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People whose mouth has a narrow roof are more likely to snore.
This is because they have less oxygen going through their nose
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In one day, a human sheds 10 billion skin flakes.
This amounts to approximately two kilograms in a year
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The Arctic Ocean covers an area of about 14,056,000 sq miles
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Over 50% of lottery players go back to work after winning the jackpot
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The phrase
“Often a bridesmaid, but never a bride,”
actually originates from an advertisement
for Listerine mouthwash from 1924
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Pluto was discovered on February 10, 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh
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America’s longest place-name is really Massachusetts’
“Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamauugg”
Native American for
“you fish on your side, I fish on my side, nobody fish in the middle,”
It is also known as Lake Webster.
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The longest town name in the United Kingdom (and Europe) is in Wales
“Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch”
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In New Zealand there is
“Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu”,
which translates roughly as
“The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains,
the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one”.
At 85 letters, it has been listed in the Guinness World Records as the longest place name in the entire world.
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But that doesn’t include the formal name or Bangkok, Thailand which is over 150 letters long
“Krungthepmahanakonbowornratanakosinmahintarayudyayamahadiloponoparatanarajthan
iburiromudomrajniwesmahasatarnamornpimarnavatarsatitsakattiyavisanukamphrasit”
The translation here is pretty much the unabridged history of the city rather than a word.
krungthep mahanakhon
The land of angels, the great city of
amorn rattanakosin
immortality, various of devine gems,
mahintara yudthaya mahadilok pohp
the great angelic land unconquerable,
noparat rajathanee bureerom
land of nine noble gems, the royal city, the pleasant capital,
udomrajniwes mahasatarn
place of the grand royal palace,
amorn pimarn avaltarnsatit
forever land of angels and reincarnated spirits,
sakatattiya visanukram prasit
predestined and created by the highest devas.
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