OT- Star Wars for Marvin

[Marvin Long]

No: HPFGUIDX 10633

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Stephanie Malfoy"
<StephanieMalfoy at h...> wrote:

> 
> It is Mrs. Malfoy now...I dont know, but it is hard to do <vbg>  I
do not 
> remember the location of the SW quiz, I am looking for it for you.
> 

I beg your pardon, Lady Malfoy.  I was able to find the following quiz
(don't know if it matches yours) and scored 112 out of 250 points,
which gives me a rank of "wookie."

http://members.tripod.com/~Adam_P_B/starwarshands/obsessed.htm

But I think the quiz is incomplete because it measures breadth of
obsession (how much stuff you own or know) but not depth (how much SW
permeates your psyche, values, and behavior).  I suspect it's probably
because most peope who run SW fan websites and compose quizzes are too
young to know of a world without Star Wars (I notice the quiz give no
credit for seeing the movies in their original theatrical releases).  
For them, SW was this cool thing that existed and all you had to do
was go buy or rent it on video.

I think the experience is a little different for somebody who, like
me, was 8 years old in 1977 and remembers with crystal clarity which
theater I was in, what it felt like to stand in line (my dad took us
to see the movie as a surprise), the anticipation, how cool it was
when the lights dimmed and the movie began with the Fox fanfare and
then the sudden *blast* of sound and light as the opening crawl
began...

There are a couple of things missing from the quiz which convince me
that, in fact, I have a deeper and more enduring obsession with Star
Wars than the writer of the aforementioned quiz.  If he were as
obsessed as I am and have been over time, he would have asked
questions like these:

*  Did you buy and read the novelization of Star Wars in 1977 before
you actually saw the movie?  (The book came out a couple of months in
advance of the movie's release.)  Did you wear it out within a couple
of months and have to buy a new one?

*  After seeing ESB in 1980, did you spend the next couple of years
reading everything you could about ESP and telekinesis, practicing in
your room at night, desperately trying to move your plastic model of
Vader's tie fighter with the power of your mind alone?

Do you still find yourself trying it on a semi-regular basis, in an
offhand absent-minded way, even though you are now an adult?

*  Did you build your own action figures out of wood in the garage
because your parents were too damn cheap to buy you all the ones you
wanted?  Did you build the spaceships out of Legos (not Star Wars
franchised Lego kits--I mean ordinary old generic Legos) because,
again, your parents considered the actual toys too expensive?

*  Once you learned that the Jedi were based on eastern martial arts,
did you start taking lessons because you wanted to get that mental/chi
thing going in your life?  Did you break any of your bones in this
determination?  Other people's bones?

*  Do you fully and firmly know that G. Lucas doesn't quite understand
what Star Wars is all about?  (The quiz asks if you worship Lucas. 
IMO, I outrank him.)

Stuff like that.  :-)

Marvin

Who must really be one tragically obsessed pudknocker to have written
this post....