5.04.2007

may the fourth be with you

well its finally here the 4th most important day of the year. behind my birthday (august 8th by the way), Christmas, and international talk like a pirate day. why is this day so important? well it all started back in 1979 when the first Star Wars film was released. some valued member of society was scrolling through a calender, marking every Wednesday with a big red marker (thats comic day for you geeks who don't have a life), when he noticed the fourth day of may.

now let me backtrack a bit first. after seeing A New Hope, "Larry", we will call him, and allt he members of his A/V club, would depart each other quoting the famous Jedi saying "may the force be with you". now as the A/V group combined had more metal on their face than apollo 11, they all naturally talked with lisps. it was all fine with them for 9 months of the year, but once it started to freeze outside, they were less than thrilled.

anyways back to the story, as "Larry" rested his eyes upon the fourth day in May he thought to himself. "May the Forth????", this was his opportunity! he had a plan!

now it may be hard to tell, but "Larry" wasn't the most, how to say, popular kid in school. finally he had a plan to achieve popularity. He only had to wait 2 months, and until then he wouldn't say a word to anyone.

about two months later "Larry" woke up to a beautiful spring day, May 4th. this was it, the best day of his life. he got dresses in his finest short sleeve t-shirt, freshly pressed by his mom the night before. he rehearsed it over and over in his head for half an hour, and as he got to school, he went about his business as usual.

then 3:00 came, there was 10 minutes left in school, 5, 4, 3, you get the idea.

the bell rang! "Larry" got up in front of the class, and is his best Obi Wan voice, spoke those six words.

"May the Fourth be with you!"

silence, then it started, a look of sudden revelation in the eyes of his peers.

"Did he just say??" "He Did!!!" the class erupted in applause, upon recognition of "Larry's" words.

so long story short, the next day "Larry" was a pretty freakin' cool kid. so what's the morel of this story? kid's read your calendars closely, oh and making fun of geeks is not cool, unless you are a geek.

So this is where i leave, i hope you enjoyed this brief history lesson.

may the fourth be with you!!