Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.starwars.misc                                           
From: cardsafe@unix.asb.com (Rich Handley)                                      
Subject: Re: SW stupidest dialogue                                              
                                                                                
>Luke whining:                                                                  
>"But I wanted to go by Toshee(sp?) Station to pick up some power               
convertors!">                                                                   
> OK, we have a winner!!!  (Even though it's spelled "Tosche")                  
                                                                                
>I'm just glad this conversation didn't go any further, like "But DAD, all the  
>other kids have power converters..."                                           
                                                                                
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I can just see it now....                                                       
                                                                                
OWEN:   Whaddaya think, power converters grow on trees, boy?  Why, when I was   
a boy, we didn't have any of them fancy POWER CONVERTERS or MACROBINOCULARS or  
T-16-whatever-the-heck-you-kids-call-them-damn-things-these-days!  We had to    
convert all our power by hand!  Yesiree, one point twenty-one gigawatts,        
right through the 'ol fingers, boy, and did we whine and complain when our old  
man told us to clean up the droids, huh?  Did we wrinkle our noses up and say   
"I wanted to go to the Power Station and covert some Tosche Whoosamawatsits,"   
huh?  Nooooooo, not us, boy, we wen't right on out there an' cleaned up those   
damn droids -- by hand, mind you -- then we walked twenty kilometers to the     
South Ridge, on hot sand, barefoot, uphill, past murderous Tusken Raiders and   
hungry womp rats, AND WE LIKED IT!  But you kids today, why, you got it         
easy....  you wanna power converter, huh?  You wanna power converter?  I got    
yer power converter right here, boy.....  Now go clean them there droids, and   
don't let me catch you convertin' any of their power, either!  Whatever power   
they got's good enough for them, it's good enough for me, I tell ya'!"          
                                                                                
--Rich Handley  (having spent a little too much time out in the desert)