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Lots of interesting stuff today.

We got one of those automated calls that was like This is a call regarding George Bush's nominee for-*CLICK* (At this point, I practiced my Force-hangup as I like to call it.)

I learned that while the French and Spanish words for avocado mean 'lawyer', the Spanish had just been trying to find the closest word they had to the Aztec name for avocado. But the funny thing is, the Aztec word for avocado doesn't mean 'lawyer'... it means, erm, excuse me... it means *cough*kagen.*cough*

I was reading the Revenge of the Sith novelization. It's got some beautiful bits like the intro

(It is not just the end of a republic, night is falling on civilization itself. This is the twilight of the Jedi. The end starts now., etc.)

And the whole thing about Obi-Wan and the Force during his first confrontation with Grievous.

(He is even the plan for his own execution, simmering in the General's brain. He is all these things, but most important, he is still Obi-Wan Kenobi. This is why he can simply stand. Why he can simply wait. He has no need to attack or to defend. There will be battle here, but he is perfectly at ease, perfectly content to let the battle start when it will start, and let it end when it will end. Just as he will let himself live or let himself die. This is how a great Jedi makes war.)

And then, there's just the strange bits, like after Obi-Wan gets knocked out, rescued by Anakin, and is hanging over his shoulder when he wakes up.

(Obi-Wan opened his eyes to find himself staring at what he strongly suspected was Anakin's butt.)