+1 High-school chemistry credit?

I “won” a little writing contest in college and the prize was a fucking Thomas Friedman book. I’m now an engineer.

British sports jargon? Hand me my mashie niblick. One more leggie and he’s out for a duck. Balls-on.

Bingo.

I agree with you. I think and wish they could’ve found another way of conveying Luke’s 1. fear of the Dark Side 2. tendency to make the wrong choice by drawing his lightsaber first and 3. ability to come back from the brink of giving into fear and anger — all of which are perfectly established Luke traits in ESB/ROTJ…

I feel like the way that scene played out and was recounted was a big miss, but it’s not backbreaking to the story because you can tell yourself, “it was a flashback, it was told from two highly biased points of view” so it’s possible to believe that something like that, with the same result, but not so fundamentally…

Unnecessary passive voice is arguably bad. However, it’s a long way from horrible. It’s easy to come up with several perfectly acceptable examples of antecedentless pronouns, like when one says that “it’s raining.”

coup fourré!

“Herbie Hancock” is all-time great Kinja. Unreal.

Jesus Christ, this is real ....