Star Wars

I am a Star Wars geek. Until an embarassingly late age, my wardrobe consisted mostly of Star Wars T-shirts. I owned an AT-AT (first generation). I saved up box tops to buy two SW documentaries. I pre-ordered the THX as well as the Special Edition (Wide Screen) three-pack videos. I firmly believe that George Lucas will eventually get around to making The Golden Jedi. The fact that I’m a woman in her twenties makes it all a little more embarassing, but not so much that I’m going to stop.

I was chatting with pmk the other day about the pizzeria he’s going to open. It’s going to be called Pizzeria 々. I asked him what the kanji meant, and the rest, as they say, is history.

As this was hours after the Berlin U-bahn debacle, the word stupid (baka - 馬鹿) came up. I, naturally, then thought of Chewbacca, and what the kanji for chew would be. After a bit of im-confusion, pmk came up with chu (middle - 中). And it turns out the kanji for Chewbacca is chubaka - 中馬鹿. Its meaning? Middle fool.

Thank you, pmk. Thank you, patrick.com. Thank you, cosmos.

Here, for fun, is a Starship Dimensions page. Chewie is dabei.