# UK Dopers only - Become a Jedi For Real!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 8, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-only-become-a-jedi-for-real/61280 "2001-04-08T21:56:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-only-become-a-jedi-for-real/61280/1 "2001-04-08T21:56:47Z")
Ok, this was received in a chain letter. **However** I got it from a good lady friend who is staggeringly intelligent and possessed of enormous common sense. She gets a ton of e-mail every day and has never forwarded me one of these before. I have checked [Snopes](http://www.snopes.com) and the SDMB archive, and tried to check the [UK Census Site](http://http://census.ac.uk), but their search function hasn’t been installed yet, and I have found nothing to rule out the possibility that **this might just work.** I humbly apologise if, in fact, it is not true, but I believe that the final point in the email jusifies going along with it anyway. That’s what **I’m** going to do, anyway. E-mail as follows. > [@](#): > > **Title : _OK, I’ll join in this one._** > > As some of you may know there is a census coming around on August the 7th [UK Only]. > > For those who don’t know, a census is where the government collates general information about its residents (number of people living in your house, religion, etc) > > If there are enough people who put down a religion that isn’t mentioned on the census form it becomes a fully recognised and legal religion. It usually takes about 10,000 people to nominate the same religion. It is for this reason that it has been suggested that anyone who does not have a dominant religion to put **“Jedi”** as their religion. > > Send this on to all your friends and tell them to put down “Jedi” on their census form. And remember …If you are a member of the Jedi religion then you are by default a ‘Jedi Knight’. > > So if this has been your dream since you were 4 years old… do it because you love Star Wars. If not… _ **then just do it to annoy people.** _ \ > > “May the Force be with you!” ---
**Author:** ![skaffen\_amiskaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d26b3c/32.png) [@skaffen\_amiskaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skaffen_amiskaw)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2001, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-only-become-a-jedi-for-real/61280/2 "2001-04-08T23:08:21Z")
up for the plan am i. powerful jedi will i be, fight against insidious senator palpatine…hang on…i mean hague. hmmmmm. portillo the hutt shall i topple from power. yours randomly -will ---
**Author:** ![Renton\_lvr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Renton\_lvr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renton_lvr)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-only-become-a-jedi-for-real/61280/3 "2001-04-09T01:39:56Z")
Check out [http://www.theforce.net](http://www.theforce.net) as this has been debunked already. ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-only-become-a-jedi-for-real/61280/4 "2001-04-09T09:15:41Z")
Also, in real life the census forms are being delivered today, and must be returned by April 29, not August 7th. Getting the basic facts wrong disappoints me, even in a hoax. ---
**Author:** ![TPWombat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbce88/32.png) [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-only-become-a-jedi-for-real/61280/5 "2001-04-09T09:30:23Z")
Aw, **bugger.** I really liked the look of this one. Thanks for the correction, guys, sorry to take up bandwidth with it. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-only-become-a-jedi-for-real/61280/6 "2001-04-09T09:44:22Z")
It would take more than this for me to leave George Harrison and the yogic flyers. OOMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-only-become-a-jedi-for-real/61280/7 "2001-04-09T11:38:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tansu \* > \*\*Also, in real life the census forms are being delivered today, and must be returned by April 29, not August 7th. > > Getting the basic facts wrong disappoints me, even in a hoax. \*\* It’s because it’s actually copied from another email, trying to do the same thing in (IIRC) New Zealand. Someone told me the other day that it wouldn’t work, though, as the census takers do take into account jokes and obvious things like this. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-only-become-a-jedi-for-real/61280/8 "2001-04-09T14:07:40Z")
Hmmm. Somebody from Australia posted this on the Lonely Planet site a few days ago. IIRC, his message implied that this “census” was going on in _his_ country. Probably turn out to be Zambia or something. ---
**Author:** ![dpr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dpr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dpr)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2001, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-only-become-a-jedi-for-real/61280/9 "2001-04-09T14:32:17Z")
Actually the Aussie census IS coming up shortly as well and an email doing the rounds. Will I be putting down Jedi? You can bet your death-star of a backside yes! ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2001, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uk-dopers-only-become-a-jedi-for-real/61280/10 "2001-04-11T14:42:51Z")
There would be no point. Census bureaux aren’t obliged to mark down every made-up religion that people vote for. In the UK, “Jedi” would be counted as “Other” and not separated out: [BBC News Story](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/new_media/newsid_1271000/1271380.stm) I also know a few people from the Australian Bureau of Statistics who say that the census isn’t as simple as summarising results, but that interpretation does go on – if they suspect people of taking the mickey, they won’t put those results in, or they’ll count them as “Other” too. All in all, nice story, shame about the facts …