# How much did Princess Leia know? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870 "2005-12-09T13:49:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870/61 "2005-12-10T02:12:07Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > You’re overlooking the really important part here: _R2-D2_ knew the whole story. Start to finish. Then why didn’t he remind C-3P0? And why didn’t he remember how to use his jets? ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870/62 "2005-12-10T02:42:27Z")
> [@The Controvert](#): > > Luke… that is not the ass that you wish to tap. Luke: Ben, you ever do that hand-wavy force thing to me? Ben: No Luke: You’d tell me if you did, right? C’mon. Ben: Let’s go junior. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870/63 "2005-12-10T02:52:20Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > Luke: Ben, you ever do that hand-wavy force thing to me? > Ben: No > Luke: You’d tell me if you did, right? C’mon. > Ben: Let’s go junior. Excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870/64 "2005-12-10T07:00:46Z")
> [@kunilou](#): > > _Don’t get the clap_ > (signed) > Obi Wan Kenobi “Hey, that’s good advice!” – Jimmy Dugan ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870/65 "2005-12-10T07:45:15Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#): > > Then why didn’t he remind C-3P0? And why didn’t he remember how to use his jets? After that whirlwind affair with an aero-patrol droid that ended in tragedy and heartbreak, he never could bring himself to fly again. And he didn’t tell 3P0 because he gets a kick out of jerking him around. (Ol’ R2 started getting awfully sardonc in his later life.) ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870/66 "2005-12-10T11:28:27Z")
> [@Casey1505](#): > > For the same reason that there is no crying in baseball, I can’t imagine sex in Star Wars. If there was no sex in the Star Wars universe, how could Billy Dee Williams exist in it? Hell, the Star Wars universe is the sexiest place going – even Bea Arthur and Harvey Korman got right down to it as soon as they stepped in. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870/67 "2005-12-10T13:04:01Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > He sure do have a purty data port, don’t he? Alas! As a Star Trek fan, I must point out that Data’s “ **FULLY** functional” joke is much better than that. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870/68 "2005-12-10T13:36:59Z")
Can you imagine what John Williams could do with Dueling Banjos? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870/69 "2005-12-10T14:14:50Z")
Duelling Banjos _OF THE FATES!_ ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870/70 "2005-12-10T14:57:15Z")
> [@UncleRojelio](#): > > Shirley, Obi Wan have at least remembered owning an R2 unit, even if the probability against it being the same one were astronomical. And Don’t Calll Me Shirley. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-did-princess-leia-know/334870.md?page=3)