Star Wars chapter VII
Star Wars chapter VII A New Pope
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It’s “Episode” not “Chapter”
If you’re going to make an unfunny caption, at least get the nerdisms right.
Ya, and it should be some where between Episode III.V to V.V. He die after Episode VI.
Sorry, died.
Thanks for the spoilers assh0le.
‘Cause you’ve totally been meaning to watch those and now it’s ruined for you?
can’t you see it was a joke, try and keep up.
Don’t worry, he’s Christian! Obviously he has risen again! Just like Chucky and Frankenstein and… hmm
Cheezus!
I say you he dead
I’ve never seen any of the Star Wars movies and even I know that.
Great, if you have no sense of humour whatsoever, don’t bitch about it.
Not to mention, these clergy aren’t even Catholic.
For all of the captioners that Did Not Do The Research, you really should know better. Pundit Kitcheners are far too observant for you to make such slips.
You have angered the nerds!
Why is Vader’s lightsaber not red?
more to the point, why isn’t it setting his cloak on fire?
ARE YOU CRAYSHY?! *sniff* A lightshaber ish a conshentrated beam of light powered by an internal cryshtal and with an adjushtable length *snork* setting! It’sh affect on Lord Vader’s cloak would just erode it, but in a different way than fire or ashid (acid). *pimple explodes* Lashtly, WHEN DOES EPISHODE SHEVEN COME OUT?! I’m gonna get my coshtume ready now! Bayshment, here I come!
Forgive me, I don’t speak fluent Nerd.
You do know there’s no shame in knowing something. It’s perfectly possible to share your knowledge without making a complete fool of yourself.
Unless the subject being discussed is lightsabers. In which case you can only sound like a giant waste of skin.
Rolls a D20…
Czernobog fails critically and simply sounds an arse…
Win
In his case, no, it wasn’t…
You don’t speak fluent English either.
Lightsabers can’t set things on fire as they don’t radiate any heat.
It could only singe the coat a bit by touching it.
Nerdism +100
Lvl up!
Why does paying attention to the movie make you a nerd? If light sabers started things on fire, Obi Wan’s robes would have been ignited when he was killed. They weren’t, so light sabers don’t make fire. It’s simple conclusion that anyone who watched the movie should be able to form on their own.
The expensive ones are all clear (like “Force FX”), and only show their color when turned on.
/ubernerd
You mean Vader doesn’t have a real Lightsaber? *gasps*
Well, not for public appearances. It’s in bad taste to slice people up when you’re making a promotional appearance.
OH MY GAWD!
They’ve sucked all the evil out of him!!!
Run Darth! Run!
It looks to be the Blue/Red Anakin/Vader saber. when you turn it on, it can be either blue or red, depending on which button you hit.
Umm, no. That isn’t an expensive saber, Force FX or otherwise. Good quality sabers don’t have collapsible blades, they’re one solid tube of polycarbonate (high-strength plexiglass, basically) with a film on the inside that helps diffuse and distribute the light from the LEDs inside. Any saber with a collapsible nesting blade like this one is a cheap toystore trinket made of plastic, and is little better than a glorified flashlight.
Which is what’s really amusing about this picture to me… a good quality Vader replica costume is quite expensive, at least in the several hundreds of dollars and probably over a thousand. And he accessorizes it with a $20 toystore lightsaber? What, he couldn’t afford the extra hundred bucks for a decent quality saber? WTF?
And before you ask, yes I’m a nerd and damned proud of it.
The bald guy apparently has not seen DV back there, or he is eating this all up. I like to think it’s the latter.
Darth’s light saber is not red because it’s his Sunday-Go-To-Meeting one.
What’s the dude in green carrying?! Some kind of Catholicult weapon?
It’s a book… likely a bible or songbook… so yeah, in a way.
You’re right – show’s my paranoia (and my eyesight)…
It’s his ninja throwing bible…
Does it have poison tips?
There’s another type… 8 on the corners, and millions printed in side…
Our chief weapon is surprise… and fear.
Our _two_ chief weapons are surprise, fear and a fanatical devotion to the Pope.
Our _three_ main weapons are surprise, fear, a fanatical devotion to the Pope. Oh, and poison tipped Bibles.
Among our weapons are…
Thine holy hand grenade of Antioch?
Holy Grail reference WIN. One, two, five.
3, Lord
Lol close, it’s “3, sir”
As for the other comments, why are we bitching each other out over something minute and inane? If you’re going to do it, at least do it for a good reason.
They’re Lutherans, I think… the ruff collar being the tell (that NEVER looked good)
and these days teh only weapons Catholics use in civilised areas is guilt…
Calvimists too, I suppose…
Eh? Meant to say CalviNists…
Calvinists using the guilt, not being Catholic weapons, I mean…
I think both are true…
Guilt? Catholics got nothing on the Jews. My Mother-in-Law is Jewish and she has taught me more about feeling guilty than I ever knew could be learned….damn, I feel bad about mentioning that.
That’s what I love about being Presbyterian. We just don’t give a sh!t.
I thought that Presbyterians were Calvinists.
I think they’re Episcopalian.
Church of Scotland is presbyterian with Calvinist roots. I thought the Anglicans were Episcopalian tho…
Oh, maybe that’s it then.
I had to look this up, which is my presbyterian minister grandfather would kick my ass for.
The church does have Calvinist roots, and did originate in Scotland.
There are a number of reasons I stopped bothering with religion. This thread explains one of them.
As my formerly presbyterian father likes to say…they’re Catholic without the guilt! lols
It’s like dropping plague corpses into a castle under siege… send the calivinists in to sap the enemies will to live, then wipe them out when they’ve done tothir job…
it’s sort of ‘fire and forget’ religion…
oooooookay… If you say so, Fester…
They suck my will to live, for a start…
*Resists B!tchy “what-a-shame-they-haven’t-succeeded” joke*
It’s really only Holy-Willie type Calvinists that are awful. Here, the Church was fine until Calvinist principles weren’t being followed…
Well, not fine considering the blood all over the place from the reformation and the Covenanters but could have been worse…
And not fine considering that a lot of Calvinists were Holy-Willie bastards but it could have been worse…
That’s nice.
what?
The punch line you’ve made yourself in this thread.
Our chief weapon is surprise…surprise and fear…fear and surprise…. Our two weapons are fear and surprise…and ruthless efficiency…. Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency…and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope…. Our *four*…no… *Amongst* our weapons…. Amongst our weaponry…are such elements as fear, surprise….
Nice wordplay, but as the first commenter pointed out, wrong nerdism.
I don’t get why pictures of Darth Vader and people from the church keep showing up here. What is going on in that picture??
From what I can tell, and from what I’ve heard people say irl, they’re making a connection between the new Pope (Benedict XVI) and Star Wars, though the reference I usually hear is that he’s an Emperor look-alike and if that’s what this person was trying to get across, I don’t think it was successful overall, much less in the minute details as other posters have pointed out.
And if that’s not what they were trying to say, then I haven’t the slightest clue.
Bolllllllllster!!!!!!!!
Did anyone ever stop to think that perhaps the presence of Darth is less a commentary on the “darkness” of Catholicism and more a joke about Jedi being a religion just as valid (i.e. not very) in the eyes of the one cracking the joke? Or perhaps he’s just making fun of the overly ritualized garb of high church officials–commenting that they look like fictional, even fantastical, characters? I suppose I just don’t get why people think this has to be an insult to the Catholic church. Especially since I think it’s a good guess that not all those church officials are even Catholic. It looks like some sort of inter-faith gathering to me.
No, we don’t over-analyze the lols. We just laugh and/or mock them.
What!? Damn, I didn’t get the memo. Again.
And they’re not even Catholics…
I think the problem is that most people aren’t aware that there is more than one Christian sect where the clergy wears what look like giant doilies. And if you’re not even that into the fashion, you won’t know who belongs to what.
I’ve seen a video of this before, complete with dubbed-in Imperial March music… And the Christian dudes never even turned a hair. Surely they must have noticed Darth Vader behind them!
oh yeah, i think i saw that too. looked kinda like a star wars cult to me, actually, not so much a mainstream religion…. weeeiiiiird.
I Find Your Lack Of Faith Disturbing.
LOOK AT THAT BIG BEEFY BUBBLE BUTT!
Am I the only one who actually thought it was kinda funny?
Yeah…Catholics don’t wear those…ruff…collar…things? I hope I didn’t embarrass any Lutherans.
I had a really weird dream the other night because I’ve been trying to decide between following religion or science (I can’t seem to find a medium). My parents owned a souvenir shop on a beach (they DON’T in real life) and two pelicans told me to leave the Catholic church. Ironically, the pelican is one of the symbols OF the Catholic church because the pelican can gather food and feed its young well and the C. Church [is supposed to] “feed” its followers well…
Despite what many would have you believe, the two (religion and science) are not mutually exclusive.
Thank you PK lurker, thank you…
I’ll tell Galileo…
And I’ll tell the Most Rev. Dr. Katherine Jefferts-Schori; she is Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and has a PhD in Oceanography. SHE apparently sees no contraditiction between religion and science.
I like to say: “Science tells me what and how; Religion tells me who; Philosophy tells me why.”
Bully for her.
And who what?
In MY dream last night I was the leader of a group of refugees trying to escape from an oppressive regime on a distant space colony. It was awesome.
Cool. But wouldn’t you have rather been the leader of the oppressive regime on a distant space colony? I think of it as a cross-over of SimCity and Risk
Well, yeah, I can see your point. But last time I remembered a dream it involved being covered in cat leeches, so this was an improvement.
Last time I was woken up by a dream it included Uncle Fester. :/
more. MORE.
It was bizarre.
No way, you need to give us more detail than that!
He was making dresses (more like ball gowns) for all the “nice” gals on PK. (As in all those who aren’t stark raving mad or just daft). We had a brief chat but I didn’t want to disturb him, since it seemed both important and complicated.
SWEET! Unc’s making me a dress! (that’s a cool dream, btw)
It was not at all a nightmare, but it woke me up just through sheer oddness. (And no falling back asleep from that, oh no.)
I once had a dream so boring I was screaming to wake up…
I suppose twas not so tiring as the usual dreams when I’m being chased by vampires, zombies, blue lobster thingys, the empty child, cybermen, ringwraiths, more zombies, more vampires, a werewolf, creepy guy with flaming sword, evil clones, demon-possessed cat, Mr Hyde or more zombies…
HA! My worst nightmare had me tied up to the chair in a huge auditorium, all alone, where Britney and Celine Dion opened for a Backstreet Boys reunion concert.. And I was gagged so I couldn’t scream..
*Shudder*
Anniee! HHNF! Come join me! We have been denied dresses! Let us make ourselves shoes!
Oh come on, he loves you. He just likes poking you. Er, that came out wrong. Er
Demerits for summoning! You know better!
*is ashamed*
So Fester’s position here, vis a vis the women (the sane ones), is one of embellishing and enabling our uniquely feminine expression. Unless the dresses were white. Then it’s an entirely different story …
Oh, no, I even remember there being reasons to why everyone got the colour they did.
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None were white, but there was a cream one. I can’t remember who got what though, sorry. ;p
Do you remember any other colors?
Yes, one in a rather greenish turquoise, in a … I don’t know the name of the style, but kind of like you’d expect to find on a little porcelain statuette of a shepherd girl-thingie, if that rings any bells.
Obviously a fertility tartan, LOL.
Something a wee bit like this porcelain figure, in case the “shepherdess style” doesn’t mean the same to you as to me.
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Or more like this dress, but with a long skirt-bit.
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One of these days I might actually learn some of them there terms for clothing and styles and whatnots.
I am rather glad that I stay out of a majority of people’s dreams. This dress thing is interesting, too bad more details aren’t recalled.
@Dan: something to do with fertility and Louis XIV?
@DWN: oh, now, we can’t go and talk about *those* dreams, now can we?
@Pittypat: Apparently you are giving me more credit than I am giving me… O_o
Where’s my dress?! Oh wait…not a girl…that’s right. Nevermind.
Oh yeah? I had a dream where I got shot in the knee during a drive-by-shooting. Guess who was in the black Camaro? A bunch of identical old men in priest robes. They were kind of creepy.
cool…i had one like that. there was a bumper sticker that said ‘taliban for life’…what kind of an oxymoron is that….?
I’ll take a try:
That’s a test of faith. Your task is to find said medium and found a science cult. With prayers and church service and beach partys. The souvenir shop indicates that it needs to include capitalism in its agenda and you have to start gathering money by selling devotional objects. You know, rational people have a ‘disturbing lack of faith’ because they reject superstition, so it is your mission to give them spirituality back
Science is not about believing or even knowing something. It’s about making assumptions about what is most likely to be true and working with it. Real scientists only tell you what is more likely to be true, or what you should ASSUME to be true, but will never tell you to be 100% sure that something is true. Average people sometimes confuse assuming and believing though, hence the false idea that science is about faith in theories.
For example, a scientist sending a space shuttle to the moon will probably use Einstein’s theory of relativity to calculate the course the shuttle must take. He is not 100% sure this theory is correct, but hey, every time he uses it the shuttle reaches the moon, so why stop using it?
That is the scientific way of reasoning. Hope it helps you a bit.
I think the shuttle is mostly Newton in the driving seat. The deep space stuff, like the Voyagers, The New Horizon and earlier out planetary stuff would have more Special Relativity corrections in there…
Otherwise, a pretty goof overview of the whole scientific theory thing. It’s why I dislike people saying ‘laws of physics’… there are no ‘laws’, simply best approximations of what we see happening…
why was darth vader hanging out with a bunch of church officials? that’s what i want to know XD
Yawn.
This comment has been made from several different angles several times before. Sadly, it’s no longer funny to me.
I second that.
I found it ironic when I looked at the pic it had 666 votes.
the guy in the green kinda looks like Kevin Rudd
Mine was better.
Which always makes me wonder – just who are these no-name wonders who get picked? I’m no great wit, so I have to assume that there are much better ones not being shown.
You don’t have to assume; you can hit “See All Captions” and decide for yourself.
the little bald one at the back seems happy
thanx posttt
Okay, here’s what’s going on in this picture.
There’s an anonymous guy – nobody seems to know who he is – who obviously has access to the English ecumenical calendar. Thus far he’s shown up at at least ten venues where the clergy have been processing through the streets behind the bishop and the cross. He doesn’t do anything wrong, he just follows behind the procession. Never says a word to anyone. When they reach the church or the start of private ground where he could be accused of breaking the law, he genuflects, peels off and vanishes down any nearby passage or side street.
On numerous occasions complaints have been made about him to the police by the clergy, but the police can’t do anything, and if the truth’s known are probably just as amused as everyone else. If the clergy want to process through public streets, and somebody else happens to follow them in fancy dress that doesn’t break the law, the police won’t intervene. So this guy has mocked clergy up and down the country with impunity.
Because it hasn’t yet grown old, whenever he does it in a different place, inevitably pictures end up places like this.
I officially like this guy a lot. If only I had a shaved head, I would be tempted to dress as Darth Maul and follow him.
Ok, this pic is a still from a YouTube video…I saw it months ago and I didn’t fave it, and I can’t for the life of me find it on YouTube again.
Anyone have the link?
Basically, these men in religious attire start walking in a procession and a guy in a darth vader suit follows behind them. The video has “Imperial March” playing in the bg. once they get to the church, DV stops following them. It sounds boring, but it is lulzworthy
HEh..and in the 2001 Australian Census more than 70,000 people claimed to be followers of the Jedi Order
May the force be with them!
This is a Lutheran church procession in Reykjavik, Iceland, that was crashed by some wag in a Darth Vader costume. It’s been in various places on the Net for some time. Google “Lutheran church procession Iceland Darth Vader” for lots of links.
at least the one guy gets it
hey, i’ve seen this before. does anyone have a link to youtube that’s related to this? thanks.
why do people always nitpick like that? all you nitpickers are idiots!
and that picture is actually taken in Iceland.
Actually this was a member of Icelandic hard-core atheist group Vantrú (whom I side with wholeheartedly) protesting at a diet (a priestbooree of sorts) of the Icelandic State Church which is Lutheran Evangical, around 85% of the population belong to that sect although less than 25% are active within the church…