An unexpected by-product of last week’s Caption Contest: The discovery of how many people have never seen a Star Wars film.
People. Seriously.
If you read John Locke’s Social Contract, you know that as a member of society, you have certain expectations. Obligations. You stop at red lights. You don’t steal. You defend other people’s rights to autonomy and dignity. And you see the original Star Wars trilogy. Then, you complain that George Lucas is ruining the films with endless tinkering. That’s What Civilized People Do.
(Side note: another by-product of my posts this week was the discovery of how many of my readers live in Nebrasksa. India, and Nebraska. I’m still working on that one.)
But I also understand – as a civilized person – that I must respect other people’s baffling decisions to, say, not see films that are awesome and part of the cultural lexicon.
Regardless, the proposed captions this week were, as usual, terrific. Take a moment and choose from the finalists below. Because voting is what civilized people do, as well!
The Byronic Man 
June 9, 2012 at 8:19 am
Guilty as charged. I have no desire whatsoever to see any movie with the word “Star” in the title. No “wars”, no “treks”, no “80”, no “is born”, no nothing. I do not feel any sort of emptiness inside due to my lack of space movie viewing. I do realize that I am not welcome at any Comicon conventions and I am disqualifying myself form voting rights for this week’s caption contest.
See you next time?
June 9, 2012 at 12:14 pm
What about non-movies? no “burst fruit-chews”? “kist tuna”? ” ‘N Stripes Forever”?
You are, of course, welcome to any voting, though.
June 9, 2012 at 7:19 pm
I’m OK with non-movie use of the word “stars”.
I abstained from voting since it couldn’t possibly know what the hell I was voting about.
June 9, 2012 at 8:24 am
Now I may have not seen Star wars as any Civilized person would but i did vote as any civilized person would
hey you didnt know!!!!
The Indians are made to sign a contract that we will follow The Byronic Man if we want to blog in wordpress..( also a very civilized thing to do)
dunno about Nebraskans though
June 9, 2012 at 12:16 pm
That makes sense. I signed up for the extra “please make my blog popular in densely-populated countries with extensive spiritual histories, and spicy food” feature.
June 9, 2012 at 12:20 pm
ha ha ha you have such a great sense of humour ,just love it 🙂
June 9, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Yeah, Soma, it’s the same for Nebraskan. 🙂
June 9, 2012 at 8:31 am
I have to admit I haven’t seen it either. It made submitting a caption and voting pretty difficult.
June 9, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Well, the day is young. Plenty of time to watch all 3. Then you’ll be all, “Oh, TK-421! I get it!”
June 9, 2012 at 10:43 am
Gawd – yet another contest pitting Peg-O-Leg against Maineiac. Darla and Peg and taking over the universe.
I’ve been dragged to both Star Wars and, I believe, Star Trek movies in my lifetime. Can’t say that I watched them (or that I enjoyed them). I didn’t enter, but then I was still basking in my glorious triumph last week. Erectile dysfunction and bears – Cannot. Miss.
June 9, 2012 at 12:19 pm
Soon there will be some cataclysmic battle between Darla and Peg. The internet will explode.
June 9, 2012 at 2:29 pm
B, I think they must be related somehow. Notice how D-Woww won Peg’s contest. Hmm, are they the same person?? We need to put the National Enquirer on to this.
June 10, 2012 at 5:14 am
…hmm….methinks the jig is up…must go to phase two of my, I mean our, Plan for Evil Blog Domination
June 10, 2012 at 10:43 am
What the??? Am I to become collateral damage once again in yet another epic battle between Peg-O-Leg and She’s a Maineiac?
June 11, 2012 at 3:49 am
No worries. You are currently kicking our sorry asses. (psst…I voted for yours, don’t tell Peg, okay?)
June 11, 2012 at 7:04 am
I heard that, Darla! List of X is obviously a force to be reckoned with.
June 9, 2012 at 10:48 am
Love the movies (well, the originals), and love the captions!
June 9, 2012 at 12:19 pm
I think of the prequels as big-budget fan-fiction.
June 9, 2012 at 1:20 pm
How anybody could not see Star Wars is inconceivable to me. And yes, that word means what I think it means.
June 11, 2012 at 9:33 am
I would like to see a Star Wars/Princess Bride cross-over.
“Hello. My name is Enigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
“No, Enigo. I am your father.”
“Really? Oh. I don’t know what to do with that…”
June 9, 2012 at 1:50 pm
At one point in my blog I mentioned that I’d never seen any of the Star Wars films. I was received so many shocked responses that I finally watched all three movies and then did an entire blog post about it.
June 11, 2012 at 9:34 am
I remember that. See? That’s what a responsible citizen does!
June 10, 2012 at 1:06 am
I pity people who have never seen Star Wars (any or all of them), they don’t know what they’re missing!
And I really have to get caught up here, I keep missing my chance to be in the poll!
June 11, 2012 at 9:34 am
As Alexander the Great said, “Vigilance is the key to Caption-Contest triumph.”
June 10, 2012 at 5:17 am
And here you guys were, all in shock I had never seen a Godfather movie?
I’ve probably seen Star Wars a million times now. (my husband and I are both big fans)
June 10, 2012 at 8:20 am
I’D FORGOTTEN ABOUT THE GODFATHER THING!! Next Fall when I teach it to my film class, you can fly out and watch it with us.
June 11, 2012 at 3:50 am
It’s a deal! I think that might be the only way I’d be able to commit myself to watching it.
June 11, 2012 at 7:11 am
I can’t believe there is anyone who has not seen the Star Wars movies – only the first 3, which didn’t end up being the first 3, which started the most confusing, stupid renaming of movies debacle ever to happen. (Go reread what Byronic said about the social contract, pretty high brow stuff, by the way) But to then brag about that sad omission – inconceivable!
They’re all good, but Michael’s really gave me the giggles.
June 11, 2012 at 9:35 am
Someone a few months back said she preferred the prequels to the originals, and I found that more inconceivable than not seeing them at all.
June 11, 2012 at 11:01 am
Dang, Darla and Peg are battling it out over here, too! Watch out for those two!