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...open-list discussion is Pf-Open’s “First Ever Pfopen Novelty Account Flame War Thread,” a 76-and-counting-message thread begun over spring break in which members posted under the pseudonyms of Sigmund Freud, Mary Tudor, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Master Yoda, among others. Though the ensuing conversation was initially bewildering and utterly bizarre, it eventually made for a highly entertaining read despite its seemingly random postings. “Digressed, this thread has,” Yoda astutely proclaimed at one point...
Freud's e-mail sparked a flurry of responses from novelty other email accounts registered under names such as Mary I, Elizabeth I, Henry VIII, Master Yoda, God Almighty, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Pfranklin D. Roosevelt...
Have you tried snowboarding? -Austin Meyer, Prairie Village, Kans. I have, and I was bad at it. I don't like the feeling of having my feet stuck together. My husband and I were watching [snowboarder] Shaun White, and we were saying that he's like Yoda in Star Wars, who's always hobbling around and then in the fight scene goes crazy. That's what Shaun does. He's really agile. It's not easy, what he does. I couldn't do it. (Read "Shaun White vs. Lindsey Vonn: Who's Better...
...admits to holes in her memory--"that mysterious dead-head space around the marriage's unraveling"--which leaves the reader impotently grasping at Warren's ghost. Her cadence can sometimes slip into Yoda's rhythms ("fitful, this rest is"). But the overall impression is of a sorrowful narrative poem as humble and funny as it is beautiful. Karr is an "inveterate check grabber," she tells us, out of "the poor girl's need to prove solvency." Perhaps a similar need drives her generosity on the page. Certainly her readers, once again, are the lucky beneficiaries...
...father Marco unpacks the Happy Meal he ordered for her at a Barcelona McDonald's, she ignores the chicken nuggets and French fries, and instead holds out her hand in eager anticipation for the best part of the meal: a small plastic statue of the Star Wars character Yoda. "Sometimes I think we just buy these for the toys," says Marco...