# May the Fourth Be With You! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 4, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119 "2020-05-04T10:31:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/1 "2020-05-04T10:31:46Z")
…and happy birthday to all my fellow Star Wars Day Peeps This is not exactly how I expected my fiftieth to turn out… ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/2 "2020-05-04T13:58:40Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > …and happy birthday to all my fellow Star Wars Day Peeps > > This is not exactly how I expected my fiftieth to turn out… The Fourth will be with you…Always. Happy Birthday. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/3 "2020-05-04T18:04:09Z")
> [@Aspidistra](#): > > This is not exactly how I expected my fiftieth to turn out… You’ve just taken your first step into a larger world. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/4 "2020-05-04T18:11:46Z")
**May the Fourth Be With You!** And also with you. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/5 "2020-05-04T18:19:23Z")
**happy birthday!!** ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/6 "2020-05-04T21:01:28Z")
I was hosting a sprint demo today (technical people showing what work they’ve developed over the last two weeks) and had the following happen: Engineer A was going through some details on screen, showing how the new feature worked when Engineer B jumped in and said Disney was on the line, and there was an intruder in the Death Star. Engineer A shifted the demo screen, found the intruder and demonstrated the new feature’s ability to isolate and remove them. The intruder was called Rogue One. They won the demo today. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/7 "2020-05-04T21:29:39Z")
I found a special Zoom video background with dancing stormtroopers just for today… only to have the first day in over a month with no Zoom meetings scheduled ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/8 "2020-05-04T21:46:49Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > I found a special Zoom video background with dancing stormtroopers just for today… > only to have the first day in over a month with no Zoom meetings scheduled ☹ Send it to Zoom…! ( Oh…two…one…three…four…!) ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/9 "2020-05-04T23:04:52Z")
Ok, I actually do have a Star Wars story for today, May the Fourth. Sort of. So, my youngest is a part of a group at his school, “The Comic Bookies”… and they all got together to buy T-shirts to celebrate the very last Star Wars movie around last Christmas. He never asks for anything to be honest, so I was happy to put it on my card… and a week later a package shows up that clearly has a T-shirt inside. Anyway, he’s busy with school and other presents, so the package never gets opened. So, Five Months Later (today)… I get notification that due to their inability to deliver on the shirts, we are getting a refund for the Star Wars T-shirt. Now, I was a little confused; I mean we got that, didn’t we? Does that mean it’s free? So, once conference calls are all sorted, I dug through some things and I found the unopened package. I called him over, reminded him of it, and had him open it in front of me. Nope, it wasn’t a Star Wars T-shirt. Evidently he had entered a contest concerning a video game he’d gotten for Christmas, and had won a T-shirt from them instead. TL;DR My son never got his Star Wars T-shirt; what he actually received was The T-shirt of DOOM…! ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/10 "2020-05-05T00:06:30Z")
> [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](#): > > Send it to Zoom…! ( Oh…two…one…three…four…!) No kidding, this is how I remember my ZIP code. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/11 "2020-05-05T00:36:14Z")
And while everyone is celebrating, pause for a moment to remember those who died at Kent State University 50 years ago today. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2020, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/may-the-fourth-be-with-you/853119/12 "2020-05-05T04:43:57Z")
Am I the only one who says, "May the fourth be wis you"today?