# Today's visual non sequitur is... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 27, 2002, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-visual-non-sequitur-is/121097 "2002-07-27T07:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [July 27, 2002, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-visual-non-sequitur-is/121097/1 "2002-07-27T07:48:31Z")
…[right here.](http://photos.imageevent.com/kzhome/4thparade/large/MVC-728S.JPG) I don’t know why I find this image so pleasing. [sup]Okay, I admit it-- I know _exactly_ why.[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Eternal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@Eternal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eternal)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-visual-non-sequitur-is/121097/2 "2002-07-27T07:53:17Z")
Word up. Stormtroopers rule. “Hey, you there!” ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-visual-non-sequitur-is/121097/3 "2002-07-27T16:49:52Z")
That’s classic, and it’s now my wallpaper. ---
**Author:** ![SUPERKARLENE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/22d042/32.png) [@SUPERKARLENE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SUPERKARLENE)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-visual-non-sequitur-is/121097/4 "2002-07-27T17:03:51Z")
AWESOME! What town was this? The Empire has invaded? Where’s Luke when you need him?! ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-visual-non-sequitur-is/121097/5 "2002-07-27T17:23:37Z")
Um, but isn’t he a little short for a Stormtrooper? (Am I actually the first one to say this? Scores of total Star Wars geeks on this message board and little ol’ me the first one to say this?) ---
**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:** [July 27, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-visual-non-sequitur-is/121097/6 "2002-07-27T18:10:57Z")
> [@](#): > > What town was this? 'Tis the lovely burough of Bellmawr, New Jersey. The context is a Fourth of July parade, of which there are [many more photos here](http://imageevent.com/kzhome/4thparade?p=0&w=2&n=1&c=3&m=75&s=1&z=9&l=0). My favourite is still _Stormtrooper in Pleasantville_, though. (‘Cuz I’m a geek with issues of bitter resentment over American hegemony. I’m workin’ on it.) Predictably, my runners-up are [_Stormtrooper and Imperial Officer with Police Car_](http://photos.imageevent.com/kzhome/4thparade//MVC-732S.JPG), _[Patriots and Stormtroopers](http://photos.imageevent.com/kzhome/4thparade//MVC-768S.JPG), and [Imperial Navy Fashions Contrasted](http://photos.imageevent.com/kzhome/4thparade//MVC-743S.JPG)._ ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-visual-non-sequitur-is/121097/7 "2002-07-27T19:34:59Z")
I don’t get it, (BIG surprise) but I just wanted to say… HELLO, Larry! And BIG hugs, too! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-visual-non-sequitur-is/121097/8 "2002-07-28T02:45:52Z")
> [@](#): > > Where’s Luke when you need him?! Who needs Luke? We all know that Imperial Stormtroopers couldn’t hit the Death Star if they were standing inside it. Just walk up to him and take the damn gun away 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-visual-non-sequitur-is/121097/9 "2002-07-28T07:18:01Z")
Maybe it’s the juxtaposition of the Uncle Sam wind sock and the Stormtrooper that makes the picture so surreal. ---
**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:** [July 28, 2002, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/todays-visual-non-sequitur-is/121097/10 "2002-07-28T07:36:12Z")
Boy howdy, **Scotti**! What’s not to get? You gotcher Stormtrooper, you gotcher manicured lawn, you gotcher flowerboxes, you gotcher patriotically-themed meteorological crafts-project. It’s all there! > [@](#): > > HELLO, Larry! Now _there’s_ a woman with cultivated tastes in [late-seventies situation-comedies of the single-parent variety](http://www.pazsaz.com/images/hlarry.gif). [sup]'member that time when he found the “uppers” in his daughters purse? The seventies were cool.[/sup]