Oh Where, Oh Where, Has My Jedi Master Gone?

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Someone Steals Statue of Yoda
PASADENA, Calif. - Someone lifted a 170-pound bronze statue of Yoda, the "Star Wars" Jedi master.

The theft from a flatbed truck was reported to police last weekend and artist Lawrence Noble, 55, of Crestline has offered a $1,000 reward for its return. The limited-edition bronze is worth up to $20,000.
"It's a real high-end collectible," Noble said.
The statue was one of four bolted to a flatbed truck parked overnight Jan. 17 at the Westway Inn on Colorado Boulevard. The driver parked the truck in the parking lot so they could keep an eye on the statues, police spokeswoman Janet Pope said.
But someone grabbed Yoda that night or early the next morning.
"We are treating this as a burglary and we'd appreciate any information the public might have," Pope said.
The statues were being transported from Artworks Foundry in Berkeley to DKE Enterprises in Los Angeles to be sold, Noble said. Lucasfilm Ltd. commissioned the statues, a part of a planned series featuring other "Star Wars" characters.

Note to commissioned artists and Lucasfilm employees: a statue heavy enough to require moving by truck and costing twenty grand ain't exactly "collectible".

Still, gotta love the determination of whomever took it. The thing was bolted to the truck. $10 sez it's a CalTech prank...

― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Were the other three Yoda as well?

― Huck Me Gently (Horace Mann), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't think so.

what's the plural of "Yoda", anyway?

one "Yoda",

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many "Yoda"?

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― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Yodae.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

$20,000 keychains?

― Huck Me Gently (Horace Mann), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

damn right. you can put your weed in there.

― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Thursday, 29 January 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

dude, you took my weed?

― Huck Me Gently (Horace Mann), Thursday, 29 January 2004 16:58 (twenty-two years ago)

They have it in Brighton. Highest density of Jedi in Britain.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i didn't take it. you smoked it all when we pulled over to that rest stop outside of Indianapolis, saying that you needed to "calm down" if you were going to take over the driving.

i went off to hit up the coke machine.

― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

what's the plural of "Yoda", anyway?
Yoda is plural. The singular is Yodus.
(Notice speech patterns of Yoda. Grammatical, Yoda is not. Yes? Yoda is like his nephew Smeagol. Who speaks to himselves as if hes was more than ones persons. Yes?
It is like the ravioli. When you eat all the ravioli but one, what is left behind is a single raviolus.)

(*collective brain of forum messily implodes*)

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Indianapolis?
Shit, I thought we were in Akron.
Oh well. Hey check out the bong I made from my Boba Fett Pez dispenser!

― Huck Me Gently (Horace Mann), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:50 (twenty-two years ago)

shouldn't the singular be yodum?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, fess up. I wonder if my wife would consider Yodacai as a kids name.

― Chris V (Chris V), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Very bold, sir.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:53 (twenty-two years ago)

well, depends on where you're from.
Its like the "bacteria" problem.
Is the singular of "bacteria" a "bacterium" or a "bacillus".
On the same wavelength, why isn't the guy's name Yodi?
Is there some connection with the Hebrew character Yod?
I dunno.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Did they consider that he may have decided to hitch a ride back to Dagobah?

― Chris V (Chris V), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Luckily for his apprentice, Ben, his plural is easy to figure:
Obi Two Kenobi.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 29 January 2004 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

his name is Yoda because Lucas named the vast majority of his characters using Japanese dipthongs

― Kingfish Funyun (Kingfish), Thursday, 29 January 2004 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

that almost makes it sound like some sorta kinky metaphor for gay samurai warriors.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 29 January 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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