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To: Persevero

Obi-Wan right from the 1977 movie showed a tendency for dismemberment, cutting off the right arm of an alien called Ponda Baba in the Mos Eisley cantina.


29 posted on 08/29/2018 10:41:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

> Obi-Wan right from the 1977 movie showed a tendency for dismemberment, cutting off the right arm of an alien called Ponda Baba in the Mos Eisley cantina.

Indeed, and given what is later revealed about his abilities, he was perfectly capable of disarming the alien without dismemberment, so that part was basically pure sadism.


32 posted on 08/29/2018 11:10:13 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 1)
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To: Olog-hai
Obi-Wan right from the 1977 movie showed a tendency for dismemberment, cutting off the right arm of an alien called Ponda Baba in the Mos Eisley cantina.

. And that was because the alien was bullying Luke Skywalker.

36 posted on 08/29/2018 11:55:49 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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Robot Chicken's version was so much better!
39 posted on 08/30/2018 4:31:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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