They're all dead, Dave

I was just reminded by the AICN "Attack of the Clones" review of a discussion with Rob that we had coming back from Edinburgh last week.

We were discussing the last two Star Wars films and he said something that made me really, really look forward to the next two films. It should have been really obvious, but I didn't really think about it until he said it.

All the Jedi that we've seen in Episode 1 (and bits of episode 2) except for Anakin, Yoda, Kenobi and Sidious, are all going to die. The Jedi get completely wiped out by Vader. Every single last one. All dead. The council - dead and gone. These films are going to be dark.

Ooh, I got shivers.

Le comédie est terminé

I started running a jokes mailing list back in 1998 (ish) in order to keep myself from dropping dead of boredom (well, to be honest, I kept sending jokes to people. It therefore made sense to stick them all on a mailing list and simplify things somewhat).

People came, people went, different kinds of jokes became less and more popular, and yesterday I realised that I wasn't reading anything on my own joke list any more.

So I've told the people on it that I'm shutting it down, unless someone wants to take over from me.

The yahoogroups archive (the list started on onelist, which was taken over by egroups, which was bought out by yahoo) has over 4000 messages on it. A whole lot of history.

In some ways it seems a shame to dump it all, but hey, I'm sure all the funny stuff is out there somewhere. And if it isn't, I'm sure there'll be plenty more funny stuff along.