Editing Talk:890: Etymology

Jump to: navigation, search
Ambox notice.png Please sign your posts with ~~~~

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision Your text
Line 6: Line 6:
 
:Plus, most commercial and government ships have extra equipment for safety and reliability.  If you take a car, strip everything out of it, and put a nitrous oxide injection system in it, it will be faster than any cop car.  The cop car will be able to withstand an accident much better (they are often rated for 70-mph rear-end collisions) and will typically start every time the key is turned.  
 
:Plus, most commercial and government ships have extra equipment for safety and reliability.  If you take a car, strip everything out of it, and put a nitrous oxide injection system in it, it will be faster than any cop car.  The cop car will be able to withstand an accident much better (they are often rated for 70-mph rear-end collisions) and will typically start every time the key is turned.  
 
: Oh, and I think Lando did not yet run Cloud City when Han won the Falcon from him.  I recall Han being surprised to find out Lando had won Cloud City, in The Empire Strikes Back. [[User:Tryc|Tryc]] ([[User talk:Tryc|talk]]) 16:45, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 
: Oh, and I think Lando did not yet run Cloud City when Han won the Falcon from him.  I recall Han being surprised to find out Lando had won Cloud City, in The Empire Strikes Back. [[User:Tryc|Tryc]] ([[User talk:Tryc|talk]]) 16:45, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
βˆ’
 
βˆ’
:I've heard this question a few times before, I always just assumed he was lying. He was a rogue and a scoundrel, trying to talk up his knackered old ship.  The stuff in the Extended Universe always seemed to take it as gospel that the ship was this amazing super vessel, but I still think it's more likely that he was just spinning a tale. [[User:Elaverick|Elaverick]] ([[User talk:Elaverick|talk]]) 13:48, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 
  
 
In George Lucas' novelization of the first movie (which I have heard was ghosted by Alan Dean Foster), Obi-Wan remarks to Luke that "Even a duck must be taught how to swim."  And Luke replies, "What's a duck?"  In another place, Luke was thinking "about a dog he had once owned" right before another event (I believe it was a ship going into hyperspace). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.246|108.162.221.246]] 22:08, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 
In George Lucas' novelization of the first movie (which I have heard was ghosted by Alan Dean Foster), Obi-Wan remarks to Luke that "Even a duck must be taught how to swim."  And Luke replies, "What's a duck?"  In another place, Luke was thinking "about a dog he had once owned" right before another event (I believe it was a ship going into hyperspace). [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.246|108.162.221.246]] 22:08, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Please note that all contributions to explain xkcd may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see explain xkcd:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!

To protect the wiki against automated edit spam, we kindly ask you to solve the following CAPTCHA:

Cancel | Editing help (opens in new window)

Templates used on this page: