# May 4th--Happy Star Wars Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786 "2012-05-03T20:15:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/21 "2012-05-04T17:30:29Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Looks at calendar. > > May 3, 2012. > > 😕 > > Is confused. I find your lack of faith disturbing ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/22 "2012-05-04T17:51:42Z")
> [@corcaigh](#): > > i find your lack of faith disturbing NO-OOOOOOOOOO! x ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/23 "2012-05-04T18:03:11Z")
I see there is a thread on this in Cafe Society - dang it. ---
**Author:** ![gregorio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@gregorio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gregorio)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/24 "2012-05-04T18:05:11Z")
The fourth is not strong in this one. ---
**Author:** ![Corcaigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Corcaigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corcaigh)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/25 "2012-05-04T18:09:12Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I never heard about this before this morning, when the Public Radio station mentioned it, and used it as an excuse to p;lay John Williams’ _Star Wars_ music\*. How long has this been a “thing”? Is anyone suggesting that March 4 be “war day” because it’s a command, “March Forth?” > > \*I think they’ve wanted to do this for a long time. Public Broadcast like to slum it. Between this being "Star Wars Day and John Williams having been director of the Boston Pops from 1980 to 21984, they had a good excuse. Are you unfamiliar with the 1977 motion picture “Star Wars”? It gave us the catchphrase “may the Force be with you”…? No? ---
**Author:** ![living\_in\_hell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@living\_in\_hell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/living_in_hell)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/26 "2012-05-04T18:11:31Z")
Help me Cat Whisperer, you’re our only hope! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/27 "2012-05-04T18:14:49Z")
I never heard of it before yesterday, but I get the pun. In the US, anyway, since we typically put the month first, today is May the 4th, which leads quite naturally into “May the Fourth be with you.” ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/28 "2012-05-04T18:35:11Z")
I’m so disappointed I didn’t think about this this morning when getting dressed. It would have been a perfect excuse to wear [my favorite shirt](http://www.redbubble.com/people/6amcrisis/works/6943691-darth-lebowski-the-force-abides-man?p=t-shirt) to work. ---
**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/29 "2012-05-04T19:09:14Z")
It took me five minutes to explain this day to my eighth graders. I weep for the future of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/30 "2012-05-04T19:40:43Z")
I don’t remember so much lisping in the Star Wars movies. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/31 "2012-05-04T20:54:48Z")
The 4th will be with you…always… ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/32 "2012-05-04T22:32:38Z")
Merging two threads about this. Happy Star Wars Day. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/33 "2012-05-04T22:38:26Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Between this being "Star Wars Day and John Williams having been director of the Boston Pops from 1980 to 21984, they had a good excuse. “For a thousand generations John Williams was the guardian of peace and justice in the Boston Pops Orchestra. Before the dark times. Before the Empire.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/34 "2012-05-04T22:59:22Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Merging two threads about this. > > Happy Star Wars Day. Shouldn’t the merged thread be in Cafe Society where discussions about movies are supposed to go? ---
**Author:** ![kirk1168](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@kirk1168](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kirk1168)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/35 "2012-05-05T02:06:21Z")
I ate supper at a Chinese restaurant tonight. My fortune said, “Do or do not. There is no try.” How cool is that? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/36 "2012-05-05T02:11:36Z")
> [@kirk1168](#): > > I ate supper at a Chinese restaurant tonight. My fortune said, “Do or do not. There is no try.” How cool is that? _Well, I’ve been around, but I ain’t never seen A guy who looks like a muppet, but he’s wrinkled and green, Oh my Yoda, Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo-Yoda…_ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/37 "2012-05-05T02:18:40Z")
> [@Corcaigh](#): > > Are you unfamiliar with the 1977 motion picture “Star Wars”? It gave us the catchphrase “may the Force be with you”…? > > No? I’m not Cal, but I suspect he’s asking, when did the anniversary of the original release of “A New Hope,” or whatever they’re calling it these days, become an event in and of itself? Besides, May 4 has other connotations, for those of us whose memories extend seven years further back: _Tin soldiers and Nixon’s coming We’re finally on our own This summer I hear the drumming Four dead in Ohio._ ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/38 "2012-05-05T03:38:53Z")
> [@kirk1168](#): > > I ate supper at a Chinese restaurant tonight. My fortune said, “Do or do not. There is no try.” How cool is that? I saw a Wookiee with a Chinese menu in his hand Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain. He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook’s. Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein. Aaoooooo! Wookiees of London! Aaoooooo! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/39 "2012-05-05T05:15:17Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Shouldn’t the merged thread be in Cafe Society where discussions about movies are supposed to go? Yes. I thought that’s where it went. Merging is tricky, apparently. I’ll move it now. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786/40 "2012-05-05T18:03:16Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > I saw a Wookiee with a Chinese menu in his hand > Walking through the streets of Soho in the rain. > He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook’s. > Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein. > > Aaoooooo! > Wookiees of London! > Aaoooooo! I’d like to meet his tailor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-4th-happy-star-wars-day/620786.md?page=3)