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On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 05:13:45 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
wrote:

>Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
>of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>
>>On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:26:19 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
>>>of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:05:40 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
>>>>>of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>>>
>>>>>>On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:38:14 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@gmail.com> looked up from reading the entrails
>>>>>>>of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:46:50 -0500, Xocyll <Xoc...@kingston.net>
>>>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>David Lamb <dal...@cs.queensu.ca> looked up from reading the entrails of
>>>>>>>>>the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>On 24/03/2013 11:34 PM, Xocyll wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> Han not only didn't shoot first, he did a Tap number before shooting
>>>>>>>>>>> back.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>This would for sure happen if he'd sold the rights to Bollywood instead 
>>>>>>>>>>of Disney.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>Well it wouldn't have been Tap in that case. :)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>I now have a perverse desire to see a Bollywood Star Wars.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>Plot : Han Solo's work as a freelancer becomes more difficult as he
>>>>>>>>finds himself underbid by offshore scrub labor :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Doesn't work so much. 
>>>>>>>In the Star Wars universe he was primarily a smuggler who did some other
>>>>>>>work to cover bills and even that was dependant on him having a very
>>>>>>>fast ship.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>The cheap "offshore labor" probably has shit unreliable ships and
>>>>>>>typical third world maintenance levels - not who I would be hiring to
>>>>>>>deliver something that had to get there much less ride on the damn thing
>>>>>>>myself.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Bollywood:
>>>>>>>Somehow I don't think Bollywood would view offshore the same way
>>>>>>>Hollywood would.  And Han in a Bollywood production would be Indian too
>>>>>>>- what exactly would be cheap offshore scrub labor in India?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Somehow being Bollywood I'd think it more likely the plot would revolve
>>>>>>>around some runaway princess who hires Han to fly her away to avoid an
>>>>>>>arranged marriage and who then falls in love with him - the remainder of
>>>>>>>the movie would be the trials and tribulations of them trying to stay
>>>>>>>together - the princess and the commoner in the face of opposition from
>>>>>>>both sides.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I was thinking when you said Bollywood Star Wars, it  meant what it
>>>>>>meant as written, staying true to the Star Wars universe (meaning
>>>>>>nobody but Harrison Ford plays Han Solo on film).  
>>>>>
>>>>>He's a bit long in the tooth these days.
>>>>
>>>>Well it did all happen a long time ago in a galaxy far away :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>It sounds like you were thinking more along the lines of "This Being
>>>>>>Bollywood Space Conflict Universe", which would be a non-Lucas
>>>>>>approved cheap knock-off of Star Wars Universe, with lots of music,
>>>>>>colorful costumes and traditional dance and AT-AT Walkers replaced by
>>>>>>actual camels.  In this case, resemblence to the actual Star Wars
>>>>>>franchise might start to become difficult to spot.  Like maybe Space
>>>>>>Balls would seem spiritually closer.
>>>>>
>>>>>I was thinking more a sort of Star Wars prequel (right before the events
>>>>>of the original movie,) with the Bollywood singing and dancing, but
>>>>>otherwise canon.  It could end with him landing on Tatooine, broken,
>>>>>alone and looking for work to pay off Greedo.
>>>>>They'd have to recast simply because Harrison is a bit ancient to play
>>>>>the dashing young leading man these days.
>>>>
>>>>If Bruce Willis can keep the Die Hard thing going I don't see why Han
>>>>Solo has to be young or dashing :)
>>>
>>>Well cause if this is happening _before_ he shot Greedo, having a 70
>>>year old Harrison playing the part would just be laughable.
>>>
>>>Could he even do the singing and dancing routines a Bollywood production
>>>would require?  Methinks not.
>>
>>Don't be so sure.  The confidence he has in his own shake-that-ass
>>ability portrayed herein is not something that fades with time:
>>
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DcWeCE9yaYQ#t=10s
>
>Uh dude, he barely moves at all in that clip - he sways a little and
>watches as _she_ moves, he could have been replaced with a pole.
>
>Confidence?  He looked wooden and uncomfortable.  Or are you being
>sarcastic again?
>
>And that was 25 years ago.  Big difference in what you're capable of
>doing at 45 and at 70.

You crack me up.  Yes, it was sarcasm.  We gotta get you out of that
house more often.