Very, very tangential to the point of .....

[Mark Kohut]

I have often argued that the " annoying" ---to most ---Jar Jar Binks was one the the most interesting filmic, fictional embodiments of an Other, almost qualitatively different from us. ( them in the film.) 

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> On Dec 12, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Becky Lindroos <bekker2 at icloud.com> wrote:
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> Previous Christmas articles from the journal have attempted to diagnose Star Wars' Jar Jar Binks and used a "covert observational study" to assess the survival time of chocolates on hospital wards.
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> The journal's Christmas edition of spoof stories and silly - yet peer-reviewed studies - has become so notorious that, in 2009, a Danish journal conducted a study of citations of BMJ Christmas articles, investigating to what extent the studies were reported at face value, rather than taking their humorous intent into account
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> Bekah 
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