better with each passing day (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:51 PM -0700 9/14/10, Jeff Prucher wrote:
>
>In terms of lexemes, rather than idioms or quotations, one shouldn't overlook
>Star Wars (the original one), which gave us droid, Jedi (Knight),
>arguably dark
>side (as in "go over to the"), "star wars" itself (referring to the
>SDI), death
>star (AT&T's logo), and most likely a few more, like escape pod, which are
>mainly used in science fiction.
>
and for quotations, "May the force be with you!"

Lots of lines from "Hamlet" too, although I've heard that was a stage
play before it was a movie.

LH

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