Thursday, January 24, 2013

Jen's Gems 1/24/13

My favorite finds are particularly random this week. Hope you enjoy!

Here's something Naomi M. shared with me ages and ages ago, and John actually saw it first, and loved it so much that he BOUGHT it, and then I forgot to mention it to you guys:

It's an illustrated version of Jabberwocky, and Eran Cantrell's illustrations are all like this cover: silhouette-based with a funky steampunky flair. Since Jabberwocky is John's favorite poem of all time, I'm not sure he even finished Naomi's e-mail before zipping over to Lulu to buy it. You can buy the digital version for about $5, or the 40-page softcover (which is a very nice quality, btw) with a black and white interior for $9.95, or spring for the full-color interior at $15. And since it's Lulu, you're supporting the artist directly when you buy it - always a nice bonus.


Oh, and get this: you can actually see the entire book on Cantrell's DeviantArt! Just start here, and click [next] at the bottom to go forward.


- Hey parents, do your kids have one of those old plastic kiddy cars? Does it need a makeover? Then may I suggest....THIS?

NaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNaNa - BAT CAAAAR!!

Ahem.

Instructibles user CinnamonTwisties made this for her daughter, and omigosh look how cute:

 "Hop in. THE JOKER'S AT IT AGAIN."

(More pics here, found via ThinkGeek)



- Last month the Navy retired the USS Enterprise, the aircraft carrier we geeks fondly remember from Star Trek IV as the ship with the "nuclear wessels."
 

However, Jessica K - who is in the process of joining the Navy herself - just shared this good news: They're building a new one.

The new Enterprise won't be completed 'til 2027, but it makes this life-long Trekker happy to know her legacy will go on. [wipes away single tear] 

Oh, and fun bonus trivia: My dad currently works at the big shipyard where they'll be constructing the new Enterprise, so I got to confirm the good news with him. Holla, Daddy-O! 

(More bonus trivia: I have never before in my life referred to my father as "Daddy-O.")


- Here's a great read in The Huffington Post that Jenn P. shared with me this week: "Why I Bought Boy's Underwear For My Daughter." As a non-parent I had no idea this was an issue, but I guess I shouldn't be surprised that gender stereotypes for young kids extends even - or perhaps especially - to the underwear aisle.

- And now, two Shetland ponies wearing hand-knit wool cardigans:

See more at Modern Farmer, found via my friend & avid knitter Laura.

YOU'RE WELCOME.


And finally, your moment of hysterically baffling WTF-ness, courtesy of Lindsay G.: Star Wars French Ballet Disco.


I DARE YOU TO WATCH THE WHOLE THING. 

80 comments:

  1. I haven't gone as far as buying underwear, but I'm perpetually shopping in the boys section for my 4 year old daughter for much the same reason. She absolutely loves all things Star Wars, Cars, and Phineas and Ferb. She's even into the Tron cartoon. Now, she likes a Disney princess and a pink sequined top as much as the next girl, but she's just as likely to want to wear her Angry Birds Star Wars shirt.

    It appalled me when I first realized that I needed to look on the boy's section of the Disney Store's website to find Mickey Mouse pajamas (because apparently only girls only like Minnie).

    So I will continue, without shame, buying my daughter "boy's" clothes. And enjoy the bonus of more hand me downs for her little brother.

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  2. I would have expected C3PO to do a better moon-walk.

    P.S. Thanks, Jen - Now I'm gonna have nightmares!

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  3. Well, I won't get that time back... was that Jodie Foster at the end of the Star Wars Disco?

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  4. Wow. Ordering The Jabberwocky NOW!
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    Done. Now comes the long wait for my physical copy. I had to go physical because looking at the pages online I get the feeling that this will be a pour over little details book.

    Lulu seemed a bit slow. Sudden increase in traffic, perhaps?

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  5. Since I couldn't find where to leave a comment on the article about the panties I'll share it here with you all. I'm not really that worried about the gender stereo types. I do agree however that it's sad when you can't find some characters or logos on clothes for both sexes. My daughter loves Mickey more than any of the other Disney characters but most of the girls clothes only have Minnie. I'll happily buy her boys clothes. It just seems rather short sighted from a marketing standpoint.

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  6. OMG. I could not finish. Sorry.

    Oh, and I wore boys underwear in high school. My brother-in-law bought a pack, wore one and hated them. He was going to throw the rest of the pack away so I took them. They were so comfortable! I wore them forever (until I went of to college - lol).

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  7. @Shannon - I thought that looked like JF, too!

    My favorite part was at about 1:50 *gigglesnort*

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  8. You dared me. So I watched. What the crap was Jodi Foster doing at the end of that video??
    Have you seen Cello Wars by the Piano Guys on Youtube?? All I have to say is: Darth Vader playing the accordion. You're welcome.
    Pretty Darn Cool

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  9. Yup Shannon, that was a young Jodie Foster.

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  10. Okay, so I started watching the french ballet and then I had a thought. So I opened another tab and selected Taco's version of "putting on the ritz" and then started playing that right where the ballet starts. Absolutely. Fraking. Hilarious. Please try it!

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  11. 1. That is 4 minutes and 8 seconds of my life gone forever.
    2. Why must you dare us to do these things? You know we can't resist.
    3. Was anyone else as disturbed as me by some of the C3POs needing tighter dance belts?
    4. What was with the one second of Jodie Foster at the end about?!?

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  12. That. Was NOT. Ballet. Not sure what the heck it was, but it wasn't. And now I'm dying to know WTH Jodie Foster was doing there....

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  13. That video! You have made my night! I don't know what was better, that none of the "dancers" can dance or the fact that the choreographer had obviously never seen Star Wars. In any case, it was Craptacular.

    In breaking gender stereotypes news: my friend informed me her 7yr old son wants a Monster High doll. I collect them and apparently he thought they were cool when he saw them at my house.

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  14. I failed. I couldn't watch the entire disco.

    And I'm so sick of gender based nonsense. We need to get over ourselves and abolish marketing to particular genders. Doesn't apply any more.

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  15. Challenge accepted!

    Sexy slow walk Vader is freaking me out, and why are they all flying places???

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  16. What the hell was Jodie Foster doing in the video? I hope she wasn't one of the "dancers."

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  17. When I was potty training my daughter, I told her if she used the potty she could buy any big girl panties she wanted. So we went to the store and she picked Diego underwear from the boys section and wore them proudly. I never saw anything wrong with it. It made her happy and it's not like anyone is going to see them. I didn't know about the star wars underwear. She has become obsessed with star wars this past year so I'm going to have to buy her some.

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  18. Well, obviously my fever is spiking because I swear I just saw a REALLY BAD Star Wars ballet. Don't you just love delirium?

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  19. I watched the last video all the way through, no breaks, no pausing...

    I don't think my brain will ever be the same T___T

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  20. First of all, I must say-- SHETTIES IN SWEATERS = SQUEEEEE!

    I've been wondering/complaining about the disappearance of Underoos from the world. Seriously, not only do little kids want them, they'd make even MORE money off of weirdos like me that want to relive my childhood by running around the house pretending to be Wonder Woman! I got into trouble for running around outside in them; "But it's my COSTUME!" (Ten years later, I ran around in my underwear in public doing Rocky Horror; FATE!)


    Though that article took several franchises to task (and rightfully so), I'm glad that they mentioned Star Wars in particular; it's only in the last 15 years or so that Lucas seemed to realize, much less care, that there were females that loved SW, too. From the lack of women characters, to the attendant scarcity of female action figures and others toys "for girls", it's kinda sad how ignored we were, and still are. It's one of the reasons I've never liked SW as much as Trek.

    Your Pal,

    Storm

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  21. I failed the dare. I couldn't watch the whole thing. All I could think about was that the music sounded more like the 'Love Boat' than 'Star Wars'

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  22. star wars ballet, absolutely stinking hilarious....thanks for the laugh....

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  23. Kristen was right: all this video needs is better music to go from painful to narmy :D

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  24. oh my gosh I now need a pony and need to make all different kinds of sweaters!!!!

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  25. I couldn't watch the whole video because my foster prairie dog started going ape shit as soon as he heard French people speaking.

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  26. Wow, um... Ok then... *crickets chirping*

    I also buy my daughter boy clothes. She loves Star Wars and has picked out her own shirts from the boys section. (She's 7. She's had friends tell her that Star Wars is stupid and a boy thing, but she still wears her shirts with pride.) Target has finally gotten some geeky girl clothes (like angry bird Star Wars). I'm hoping they continue to provide more options for girls!

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  27. Omg, the underwear article. The disparity in the clothing section drives me to madness. I posted about it on Facebook recently when we had to buy yet another set of boys underwear so Alex (girl Hulk from Halloween!) could get Avengers/Marvel themed underwear. Her other set is Thomas, from when she first started potty training. :)

    But it's not just underwear. It's everything in the clothes section. The boys get all of the "boy" characters and even the gender neutral ones, and the girls are left with fairies and princesses and Minnie Mouse. Same for just themed shirts - trucks for boys, butterflies for girls.

    The Disney Store is especially awful about this, and with how much Disney impacts kids it's really distressing. If they would integrate their store, it would send such a huge message.

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  28. Okay, I watched the whole thing. It's not as bad as the Star Wars Christmas Special, even though I'm pretty sure whoever choreographed (if that's even a proper term) hadn't seen Star Wars.

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  29. Ha - that awful "dance" video has about as much to do with Star Wars as this video has to do with Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro.

    It's probably sad that your video immediately reminded of that one though. Or maybe not, as they are both so horrifically terrible as to then become fascinating and wonderful....

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  30. My daughter wore boys underwear for 2 reasons: 1) all of her older cousins were boys so that was what was "cool" to her, and 2) boys underwear are (at least in the tiny sizes for the newly potty-trained) are much thicker, more absorbent and HAVE AN OBVIOUS FRONT! (We had to use a marker to draw smiley faces on the front of all the "girl" panties until she was in 2nd grade, because they are so tiny it was hard for ME to tell the front!).

    We also shopped for her summer shorts in the boy section, because the girl section only had tiny short shorts, and she wanted cargo shorts WITH POCKETS! The shorts we found in the boy section were cute (denim and khaki)and worked great--she looked cute and nobody ever said she looked like a boy!

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  31. Am I the only one who thinks that Star Wars thing looks like a bad exercise video? With capes?

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  32. Thank you so much for the article link.

    My almost 2 yr old has just started being interested in the potty and undies. I already buy so many of her shirts/pants (for some reason it's nearly impossible to find PLAIN black/gray/navy/brown pants without ruffles in the girls' section) in the boys section. I can't believe I didn't think about the differences in boys and girls undies.

    I'm pretty sure, when she's ready, she'll be rocking some boys' undies. She loves her Batman and Superman.

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  33. It is pretty sad that you have to go to the boys' department to find Mickey. My soon to be 3 year old girl is a lot more tomboy than my oldest, so I may be shopping there in the future. She got all excited when she saw Ellen (omg they LOVE Ellen) wearing a bow tie, so I made her some felt bow ties for Christmas and she loves to put them on and look at herself in the mirror. My oldest (who is 5) however, cannot comprehend why a man would ever wear a pink shirt. LOL

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  34. My nearly 5 year old daughter seems quite happy wearing princess underwear, however she's equal opportunity when it comes to clothing and toys. Whenever we get a kid's meal from a fast food restaurant, she always requests the "boy toy", and she loves looking through the boy clothing and toy section at Target just as much as the girl sections. Last year, she was particularly frustrated because she REALLY wanted an "Avengers" shirt. We had to go to 3 different stores, and finally found one several sizes too large, boys of course. She turned to me as said, "I don't get it, Mommy! Why don't they understand that girls like heroes too?"

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    1. Walmart had a couple of avengers t shirts in the girl section, my daughter is always wearing the pink one. She was Captain America for Halloween, as was her teacher! In fact, all the second grade teachers, who are all female, dressed up as super heroes. It was great!

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  35. That may be the best (if only) disco ballet (?) I've ever seen!

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  36. Ermagerd, that was probably the WORST choreography I've ever seen. EVAR. I swear my 8 year old can choreo better than that. But the music is awesome, so there is that. It's by Stars on 45 and I have a copy of that actually.

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  37. Sigh - no one else is playing 'lit police' so I guess I have to.

    The Carroll poem is just 'Jabberwocky' - it's about a quest for a mysterious beast called 'The Jabberwock'. There is no 'The Jabberwocky'.

    There. Now I have to go lie down.

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  38. Is anyone else irked that Lewis Carroll's name is spelled wrong on that book? Seems kinda...rude? Definitely careless.

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  39. In one of those twists of weird, crazy happenstance, my dad helped commission the USS Enterprise in 1961 while my husband's dad served for two years later in that same decade.

    Also, French Star Ward ballet would not be complete without the image of a dyspeptic Jodi Foster.

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  40. Wait, was that Jodie Foster at the end of the Star Wars video??

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  41. My husband's uncle actually worked on the USS Enterprise and went out for the inactivation ceremony. :) As a huge fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation when I was younger, I was pretty geeked out. :)

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  42. Dear Jen and fellow EPBOT readers, I have a couple of things to say. First, my daddy-o used to work at that shipyard where they will be building the new Enterprise and he worked on the old one. Cool!

    Second, regarding the gender stereotypes in children's clothing...I have a 15 yr old daughter who is a big geek like me. She loves Marvel, Star Wars, Dr. Who, Spider-man, etc. For Christmas I wanted to buy her some cool geeky t-shirts. I had a pretty hard time finding any for teenage girls that were as cool as the ones they made for guys. The guys' shirts tended to be really cool and straightforward homages to the geek culture we love. The girls' shirts seemed mostly limited to cutesy, babyish interpretations of sci-fi/fantasy icons. Those are okay but I think it is saying something about us when that is all we have to offer the girls/women. Females are not only interested in geek culture if it can be made all cute and cuddly. That's what I am trying to say.

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  43. I am trying to imajine a world where that star wars thing makes sense, I should stop before I give myself nightmares.

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  44. OMG- it really DOES work so much better with Puttin on the ritz!

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  45. I love Jabberwocky, too! I memorized it in 8th grade. For my English teacher, you ask? Um, no. Just for fun. Because it had awesome words like brillig, and slithy, and manxome in it.

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  46. @ Kate - Whoops! My bad. I just fixed the title in my post, though of course I can't do anything about the book title. It is odd/sad that he'd get both the title AND the author's name wrong. o.0

    @ Tory - You're totally right; Caroll's name IS spelled wrong! I just left a note on the artist's DA account, so hopefully he'll fix it over on Lulu for future purchases. (And maybe fix the title, too, tho I didn't mention that part.)

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  47. Would LOVE the Jabberwocky, but I've been put on a moratorium. No purchases for me all this year, not because we're trying to save money or get our budget in line (although, yeah, probably should do those), but it's our 20th anniversary this year! I'm an extraordinarily difficult person to buy for and both husband and family have forbade me. Sad times! (Yeah, I know, poor little me with people in my life who want to buy me things...)

    Anyway! Jodie Foster? At the disco? That was godawful! I will now go torture other poor unsuspecting souls! :^D

    WV: achertw - a sneeze interrupted by train?

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  48. When my daughter was first ready to move out of diapers and into underwear we let her pick out her own undies- as a big Toy Story and Finding Nemo fan she wanted nothing to do with the girly princess underwear and went right for the boys underwear. That was about a year ago and now she has the perfect balance of princess wear and "boys" clothes. I'm just happy she's a kid who knows what she likes! Nothing wrong with a tutu and toy story skirt or a crown and football :)

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  49. From the other side of the underwear discussion: back when my now as tall as me son was potty training his favorite show was Dora. Yep, apparently only girls can have Dora underwear or other clothes. Couldn't even find Boots or Benny or Tico. Clothing manufacturers have this hard gender line & trust me it's harder to cross with a boy than a girl.

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  50. Holy Schnikes that video! However it is a little eerie how well Puttin' on the Ritz goes with it...

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  51. the slightly effeminate Darth Vader flapping his cape around just seemed wrong on several levels....and flying C3POs ?? The lack of synchronization between the dancers was pretty hilarious too...it's so so bad though I never want to watch it again. Can you hit the reset button in that part of my brain please? Msybe someone should ask Jodie why she was there and smiling?!

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  52. I appreciate the trouble parents of geek girls have shopping for clothes. However, as the parent of a boy, can I offer another perspective on clothing gender disparity? Now that my son is 9, I will buy him character clothing with characters he likes. However, when he was younger, I was trying to not force stereotypes on him. There was VERY VERY little choice. Everything for boys either had "action" characters on it or "boy-ish" sayings like "Little Slugger", "Football Hero", or "Skateboard champ". It was difficult to find clothing in any color except Brown, dark blue/green, or red.(sometimes orange)and much of it was designed to my my child look like a mini-thug. I spent years dressing my son almost exclusively in striped shirts, and buying tye-dyes at craft fairs, where there was a choice of purple, or teal. Also, the girls' department in most stores takes nearly half the store, whereas the boys get shoved into a little corner with very little selection. Clothing manufacturers, while you're making "Star Wars" for little girls, can you also give the parents of boys some sort of choice?

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  53. Uhm... that ballet is crazy. Especially starting around 1:25 with crazy Vaders and C3PO's dancing together and making sparks.

    We have 3 girls in our house who are almost 2-5. We have a thorough mix of girls and boys undies. Jammies too. And character tees. Beyond the fact that you can't find some of my daughter's favorite characters on the girly panties, the boys also seem to be better quality and comfier in a lot of cases. Sometimes they wear them backwards though since they have no need for a fly since it puts the big picture on the front so I generally end up taking my girls to the doctor or the babysitter in backwards, boys undies. :D

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  54. Also the kiddy undies thing sadly goes both ways too. I remember when my 4 year old nephew told everyone in the family that he wanted Sesame Street underwear for Christmas and was absolutely devastated to discover that he got Elmo, Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster and Oscar underwear but his FAVORITE character, Zoey, was missing. Zoey only came on glittery pink and purple girls' panties. And while a girl can get away with boys unders he had no desire to wear girls' underwear.

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  55. Thanks for the heads up about the jaberwocky. Brill and so incredibly cheap, I cant imagine how it can be produced for that price.

    Second, my 19 year old (in the UK) wears boys t shirts all the time, girls t shirts are very naff and they dont have the cool logos - she rocks singlets (vests?) by wearing them over plain t shirts. It isnt as big a deal over here but it is soooooo silly to stereotype by gender. Mumble mumble

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  56. I've had one of the worst weeks ever, but those ponies, in hand knit sweaters no less, made me laugh out loud. Thanks for the sunshine, I needed it!

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  57. Luckily I ordered the "Jabberwocky" book just before I burned out my retinas on that video. And I have to disagree with one post which said it was better than the "Star Wars Christmas Special". The Christmas Special was terrible, but I could laugh at it. This one just made me want to cry.

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  58. They clapped at the end because the horror was over. Who on Earth thought that was a good idea?

    When I was a little girl, I absolutely ADORED Superman. My mother made me Superman jammies with an attachable cape. I'd wear it all the time and zoom around the house. People thought I was Supergirl, I'd be like Nooooooo, Superman!

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  59. I couldn't finish watching either. So bizarre!

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  60. And there's four minutes of our lives that we will never get back. (WTF does not even begin to cover it!)

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  61. at 2:58, did the C3P0s all do the "bend and snap"?!?!?

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  62. That was terrifying! But it made me think of Star Wars videos that make me smile, and made me wonder if you'd ecncountered this one yet?

    Never fails to make me smile, just for the randomness :)

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  63. I can't believe that boys can go, "Hey, this is cool," and buy some Harry Potter or Star Wars stuff, while we geek girls have to tell everyone that no, we aren't buying it for someone else, we just like HP or Star Wars. And even then we have to endure weird looks.

    Oh, and one time, when I was little, I was at McDonald's, buying a Happy Meal, and I SPECIFICALLY asked them for the Transformers people, and recieved a Bratz head with eyes that stare into your soul. Naturally, I painted it to look like Hermione.

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  64. My daughter is almost 6 and has been wearing boys underwear since she got out of diapers (and in fact wore "boys" pullups because she loved Diego). Why don't the clothing manufacturers know that girls like superheroes too? I wish they'd bring back underoos! Lately she has started asking for shirt and tie combos from the boys section, and I happily get her those too. Whatever gets her dressed in the morning...

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  65. Get. Out. I'm in heaven with this post. The Jabberwocky is also one of my faves. The art in Eran's version is lovely. I love the darkness it enhances in the poem. I made the hubs promise to get it for my birthday.
    I've been a Batfan since about 8. I'm totally doing this for my kids. I'm kicking myself now for not grabbing one of those cars someone had put on the curb.
    I come from a long line of Trekkies (my grandmother was a painter and she gave my dad a painting of the NCC-1701-D for his birthday one year) and I squee'd upon reading about The Enterprise. Then giggled for a minute straight to myself remembering the scene in The Voyage Home where Spock tries to use colorful metaphors.
    Also, since I'm visiting from my phone, I watched the whole video BEFORE reading your challenge. Challenge complete! I loved it and couldn't stop laughing! I mean c'mon, when they come together there in the middle...and the sparks!! Hilarious! Thanks for making my morning :-)
    Nikki T

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  66. I had a fabulous balance of boy and girl toys as a child. I had just as many (if not more) He-Man figures than She-Ra. I also had an ever-growing Ghostbusters collection, which always confused my grandparents when it came to birthdays & holidays. ;)

    Oh. And is it weird that I have the Star Wars Disco song on my laptop already? (Have you ever heard the Disco Ewok Celebration song?) Anyway, I was disappointed that only Darth & 3PO made appearances. I think Chewy woulda rocked those moves.

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  67. I'm just gonna have to say: for our anniversary this year (I always buy a pair of the most amusing undies I can find,) I scored a pair of TMNT panties in the women's section at Target. Totally makes my day when I wear them...

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  68. So glad you plugged the Enterprise. My dad worked on that ship and I live right by where the new one is being built! I'll make a wreck of it if you ever come visit! :)

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  69. I have to flip the gender bias here; when my older son was in the toddler section, there were TONS of cute clothes for boys: vintage cereal ads, bulldogs, faux tats, moose, so on. As soon as he got into the six-and-up range, everything was limited to three basic areas: footballs, skulls, and licensed stuff like Star Wars, Angry Birds, Batman...oh, and those obnoxious "attitude" shirts that convey attitudes that I spend half my time explaining the problems with. I don't mind the occasional licensed piece or the occasional sports piece, but this boy is not athletic (though he tries) and I object to dressing him in stuff from movies he's never seen (and he's the kind of kid who can barely sit through "Despicable Me" without getting scared.) So finding tees for him is a pain in the butt...even the selections of solids is kinda limited in favor of these "cool" things. So, you might think there's gender bias on girls...but I've seen a much broader variety (aside from undies) for girls than I have for boys...(and don't even get me started on the SHOES! Dang, boys shoes suck...)

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  70. Is it just me, or do the C3PO's flying off at the end remind anybody else of Ultraman?

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  71. Jen, it is not often I ask this but ... WTH did I jut spend FOUR MINUTES & EIGHT SECONDS watching?!

    (Also, seriously? No Force Choke?)

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  72. That Star Wars disco song is actually one of my favorites! It was released by Meco in the late '70s and I've always been rather fond of it, even though it was before I was born. This French "ballet", though, is just... well... words don't describe it really. Da heck did I just watch?? O_o

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  73. When I was in high school, back when dinos roamed the earth and Star Wars was brand new, that music was ALL over the radio. It was a trend, I guess, because the other one that was popular was a disco pop version of Beethoven's Fifth!

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  74. I watching the Star Wars ballet waiting for the punch line. I think I'm going to be waiting forever...

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  75. My husband and I sometimes watch horrible things (commercials, French Star Wars dance-offs) and say "these people auditioned for this, and were so happy to get the part." Yep.

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  76. I think my brain just exploded. I can't even begin to fathom what was going on there...

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  77. Argh, the underwear! I ended up buying girl's underwear for my son, because all the boy's stuff I could find either had characters, which I avoid, or was stiff, scratchy, and uncomfortable. I did eventually find boy's underwear I could buy him. And I had the same problem as another commenter, not being able to find colored clothes for boys. Stripes and tie-dye were it, until he decided he liked button-down flannel shirts. Now I have to buy boy's clothing for my daughter, because now that she's nearly seven, the girl's section is full of sexy off the shoulder glitter in her size. Hate the clothing manufacturers. Hate them. :P

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  78. Fun fact: the scenes involving the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home weren't actually shot on the Enterprise, for two reasons: First, security protocols involving the Navy's nuclear-powered ships - particularly in the 1980s - would have precluded using the ship, and second, the USS Enterprise was actually deployed on a WestPac cruise at the time of the filming. The USS Ranger, a conventional steam-powered carrier (also, if I recall correctly, decommissioned at this point), stood in for the Enterprise during the filming of Voyage Home.

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  79. The is a bit random -- but I agree Jabberwocky rocks!

    Baseball Hitting Drills are my life...

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