What does Darth Vader have to do with the unfurling financial apocalypse? Nothing, unless you count Barney Frank as a Dark Lord of the Sith. Which I think is more than charitable as a Democrat from Massachusetts.
Darth Vader, speaking to a summer camp on the benefits of following the Food Pyramid
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Barney Frank, with makeup, speaking pensively into a chin-mounted microphone from the House floor
How’s that for a resemblance?
Okay; this is really yet another bait-and-switch post. Now for the real reason:
That’s tallies up to 1.5 out of 2.0 posts non-trading related. My solemn vow the next post will be back on-track.
Darn, having your over-achieving father force-kick your slacker rear into the dark void and yelling at you to get a haircut… way too familiar…
But when Daddy Vader ends up dribbling breakfast oatmeal from the corner of his mouth in an old folks home and getting his once in three-day wet tissue wipedown from a sneering 200-pound matron, he’s gonna wish he treated his boy with more RESPECT !!!
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Ahemm. Right.
Good post there.
Comment by Don — December 19, 2008 @ 9:28 am
Hadn’t thought of it that way Don, but that explains a lot. Would you rather die, become one with the Force and have the ability to show up as a smiling hologram besides Yoda at Ewok-hosted destruction-of-partially-rebuilt-Deathstar celebrations, or have your son (whose arm you recently cut off) “rescue” you? We know exactly what “rescue” means, and it has something to do with lukewarm oatmeal and large female orderly types.
Comment by andrewunknown — December 19, 2008 @ 2:59 pm
And thank you so much for that high res picture of BF.
Comment by The Lonely Trader — December 22, 2008 @ 1:38 am
Kind of macabre, don’t you think? And hard to believe *that other guy* slew all the Jedis…I think his admonitions about the food pyramid will fall on deaf ears if his own dietary regimen is any commentary.
Comment by andrewunknown — December 22, 2008 @ 8:43 am
Got a dose of sobering surrealism last night…
Was at the local seafood centre by the beach. Saw Darth Vader, next to a Salvation Army Christmas kettle with ringing bells and all.
The Dark Lord, the most powerful exponent of the dark side of the Force this side of town, was bouncing impressively from foot to foot, and waving his flaming lightsaber around menacingly like a crazed teen fan with her glowstick at a Miley Cyrus concert.
Amazingly he didnt trip.
Comment by Don — December 22, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
He is Darth Vader. He does not trip.
Comment by The Lonely Trader — December 24, 2008 @ 1:41 am
On a loosely-related Star Wars tangent, hard to believe it’s been 10 years since Troops:
http://www.theforce.net/fanfilms/shortfilms/troops/
Best material to come out of the SW universe since RotJ. Hayden Christensen getting diced up comes close. But I’ve heard that was fake.
Comment by andrewunknown — December 24, 2008 @ 7:58 pm