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  • #16
    Had a coworker ask, straight faced and dead serious, if Star Wars was based on a true story.

    Other coworker and I stared open mouthed at one another, genuinely unsure of how to respond.

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    • #17
      Quoth NateTheChops View Post
      Had a coworker ask, straight faced and dead serious, if Star Wars was based on a true story.

      Other coworker and I stared open mouthed at one another, genuinely unsure of how to respond.

      A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away....


      MIke
      Meow.........

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      • #18
        Quoth Stressball View Post
        Personally I would like to go into a bookstore and move all the Bibles etc to the fiction section, but that would be mean to the staff
        I read of a prank some people did once where they moved all the bibles to various sections and left one copy of The God Delusion or something in the otherwise empty bay. On the one hand, it amused me to read about it; on the other, if I was an employee, I'd be pissed. (I think they went back later and helped round them all up, though.)

        Quoth Seriously? View Post
        You'd be amazed at how often people would move things to where they "thought" the books should go...we found a lot of comparative religion stuff in the role-play gaming section <one of my managers caught them red-handed>,
        Well, that's a new one to me...I've come across plenty of political books that were turned around on the shelf, but I can't say I've ever found anything that was obviously moved to a more "appropriate" section. (Though I've seen many books that I thought belonged elsewhere, too )

        Quoth Mike Taylor View Post
        I loved it when some unknown joker working for The Big Yellow Price Tag's corporate offices had decided to classify Ben Stein's Expelled DVD as a comedy.
        I haven't brought myself to watch that movie. Looking at it as a comedy might be the only way I could get through it. There's a fundamentalist church near me that occasionally does free showings.

        Quoth hauntedheadnc View Post
        And all the erotica would take a walk over to the children's section, or else it would just stroll around the store with a guy who would use one hand to hold the book and the other to root around in his pants.
        Our receivers once put the Pop-Up Kama Sutra on the kids' department cart. The kids' person caught it while she was shelving.
        I don't go in for ancient wisdom
        I don't believe just 'cause ideas are tenacious
        It means that they're worthy - Tim Minchin, "White Wine in the Sun"

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        • #19
          Quoth BookstoreEscapee View Post



          Our receivers once put the Pop-Up Kama Sutra on the kids' department cart. The kids' person caught it while she was shelving.
          Killjoy.
          Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

          "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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          • #20
            Quoth Seriously? View Post
            SC: "No, that's not right. It doesn't belong in fiction. What are you, stupid? Don't you know that they just want you to believe it's fiction?? It's a cover-up!"
            My brother had this, way back when, with the X-Files. When the books and merchandise hit the shelves all the Conspiracy Theorists turned up saying "See! It's all true!!1"

            *sigh*
            Lady, people aren't chocolates. D'you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling. Dr Cox - Scrubs

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            • #21
              Quoth dragon_wings View Post
              OMG! I laughed so hard I choked on my spit.

              Can I steal this to put in my sig? Please?
              You're welcome to

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              • #22
                Quoth NateTheChops View Post
                Had a coworker ask, straight faced and dead serious, if Star Wars was based on a true story.
                I want my lightsaber, dammit!

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                • #23
                  Quoth JustaCashier View Post
                  A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far, away....


                  MIke
                  GOD said let there be lips. and there were. and they were good. and they began to sing. SING to us OH GREAT LIPS!!!!!
                  I'm lost without a paddle and headed up SH*T creek.
                  -- Life Sucks Then You Die.


                  "I'll believe corp. are people when Texas executes one."

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                  • #24
                    Quoth Racket_Man View Post
                    GOD said let there be lips. and there were. and they were good. and they began to sing. SING to us OH GREAT LIPS!!!!!
                    Oh and I am SO stealing that for my siggy.
                    The best professors are mad scientists! -Zoom

                    Now queen of USSR-Land...

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                    • #25
                      Quoth NateTheChops View Post
                      Had a coworker ask, straight faced and dead serious, if Star Wars was based on a true story.
                      ... in the sense that it's a classic Hero's Journey tale

                      ... and some peoples' lives form a classic Hero's Journey if you select the right parts to focus on

                      ... then you could mayyyybe stretch it

                      ... to 'inspired by a true story'

                      ... at most.


                      Maybe.

                      But with all the details changed.
                      Seshat's self-help guide:
                      1. Would you rather be right, or get the result you want?
                      2. If you're consistently getting results you don't want, change what you do.
                      3. Deal with the situation you have now, however it occurred.
                      4. Accept the consequences of your decisions.

                      "All I want is a pretty girl, a decent meal, and the right to shoot lightning at fools." - Anders, Dragon Age.

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                      • #26
                        Quoth Naaman View Post
                        My brother had this, way back when, with the X-Files. When the books and merchandise hit the shelves all the Conspiracy Theorists turned up saying "See! It's all true!!1"
                        You mean Mulder really does like sunflower seeds?
                        "IT stands away, interrupting himself from the incessant hammering of the kittens…"

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                        • #27
                          Quoth Racket_Man View Post
                          GOD said let there be lips. and there were. and they were good. and they began to sing. SING to us OH GREAT LIPS!!!!!
                          Mick? Is that you? No wonder you have sympathy for the devil!
                          I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
                          Procrastination: Forward planning to insure there is something to do tomorrow.
                          Derails threads faster than a pocket nuke.

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                          • #28
                            Quoth Stressball View Post
                            You're welcome to
                            Yay! Thanks.


                            Yesterday my ex and I went with some friends to a Barnes & Nobles. And as always we headed straight for the New Age section to see if they had any decent books. The first thing she does is take a Satanic Bible and put it in front of a Christian Bible. She does this every time she goes to a bookstore.
                            Driver Picks the Music, Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.
                            Supernatural 9-13-05 to forever

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                            • #29
                              Quoth Racket_Man View Post
                              GOD said let there be lips. and there were. and they were good. and they began to sing.
                              "Science fiction, double feature. Dr. X, will build a creature!"

                              Quoth dragon_wings View Post
                              The first thing she does is take a Satanic Bible and put it in front of a Christian Bible.
                              Do they explode? Like antimatter coming in contact with regular ol' matter?
                              "I call murder on that!"

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                              • #30
                                Quoth Juwl View Post
                                Do they explode? Like antimatter coming in contact with regular ol' matter?
                                I have yet to see them explode and I've seen her do it twice. I do take a pic on my phone's camera. And I'm quite tempted to post it on my facebook. I'm just worried some of my friends will freak out. Though no one's publicly freaked out to other stuff I've posted, so I may do it.
                                Driver Picks the Music, Shotgun Shuts His Cakehole.
                                Supernatural 9-13-05 to forever

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