Card Number 207 Had Something Else Going On
February 10, 2021 5:24 AM   Subscribe

 
"Beyond that, I would hesitate to try to explain it because that really takes the fun out of it."
posted by box at 6:08 AM on February 10, 2021 [1 favorite]


I hesitate to call that a woody. Perhaps he's ummm, throwing a rod?
posted by evilDoug at 7:23 AM on February 10, 2021 [3 favorites]


As is often the case, the truth is much simpler than this complicated post-hoc reasoning.
posted by GCU Sweet and Full of Grace at 7:52 AM on February 10, 2021 [1 favorite]


Han Solo : Hurry up, goldenrod!
posted by cirhosis at 7:56 AM on February 10, 2021 [1 favorite]


This card was the topic of my very first web-log posting (scroll down) from January 18, 2000.
posted by Rash at 8:22 AM on February 10, 2021 [2 favorites]


This was one of the better oral histories I've ever read. It also conciaely explains collectible trading cards in a way I never really thought about.
posted by muddgirl at 8:40 AM on February 10, 2021 [2 favorites]


Get in there, you big furry oaf! I don't care what you smell!
posted by loquacious at 8:48 AM on February 10, 2021 [1 favorite]


Curse my metal body, I wasn't fast enough!
posted by traveler_ at 8:50 AM on February 10, 2021 [3 favorites]


Reminds me of a line from Mallrats:
Stan Lee: You know, I think you ought to get him some help. He seems to be really hung up on super heroes' sex organs.
posted by star gentle uterus at 9:02 AM on February 10, 2021 [6 favorites]


MetaFilter: You know, I think you ought to get him some help. He seems to be really hung...
posted by loquacious at 9:15 AM on February 10, 2021 [1 favorite]


Well, always good to know he was fully functional. In every way.
posted by Northbysomewhatcrazy at 9:39 AM on February 10, 2021 [3 favorites]


Greeeeeat. Now I'm shipping C-3PO and Data in my head and I don't like it at all.
posted by loquacious at 9:56 AM on February 10, 2021 [6 favorites]


[Arguably NSFW]

This won't get you fired, but it might get you remembered.
posted by justsomebodythatyouusedtoknow at 10:56 AM on February 10, 2021 [8 favorites]


It’s actually a flex in the shorts that caused that extension.
It was ever so.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 12:46 PM on February 10, 2021 [4 favorites]


It's just a jump to the left / And then a flex to the right
posted by CheeseDigestsAll at 7:51 PM on February 10, 2021 [5 favorites]


The year is 1980, and my young self is obsessed with the movie The Empire Strikes Back. I'm buying the trading cards, asking for the action figures and play sets for my birthday, the whole deal. One day, in a magazine shop, I see a magazine with C-3PO and R2-D2 on the cover. I grab it and bring it to my mom, who buys it for me. On the way home in the car, I leaf through it looking for more Star Wars, and I am quite surprised by what I find.

Turns out the magazine was an issue of Larry Flynt's Hustler Humor. The subtle detail on the cover I neglected to notice was that Threepio and Artoo are connected at their crotches by a wire, and Threepio is shivering and sparking in ecstasy. I never did tell my mom what she had inadvertently purchased for her preteen child, but I did from then on wonder what purpose that port served on R2-D2 anyway.
posted by ejs at 9:34 PM on February 10, 2021 [7 favorites]


"It’s actually a flex in the shorts that caused that extension. "

Well, yeah.
posted by brundlefly at 12:40 AM on February 11, 2021 [3 favorites]


I'm waiting for the Darth Vader card where the words FUCK FACE are magic-markered onto the hilt of his light saber.
posted by delfin at 4:30 AM on February 11, 2021 [2 favorites]


The subtle detail on the cover I neglected to notice was that Threepio and Artoo are connected at their crotches by a wire, and Threepio is shivering and sparking in ecstasy.

Well, that's much better. Now R2-D2 is in there mixing it up and it's driving Data totally crazy.
posted by loquacious at 11:53 AM on February 11, 2021 [2 favorites]


weird flex but ok
posted by skycrashesdown at 12:20 PM on February 11, 2021 [1 favorite]


Data may be weird but he's very rigid and inflexible.
posted by loquacious at 7:26 PM on February 12, 2021


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