This weekend I am going to go down to visit the Star Wars nerds by the Mann's Chinese. What should I bring / ask them?

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I will (1) only do this if I can find a friend to back-me-up. Here are some candidates for questions:

1) What if it [the movie] sucks?
2) Don't you think it's mean to take attention away from the homeless?
3) Where do you poop?
4) In a cage match, who would win: Star Trek or Star Wars?

I would like to bring:

1) Tacos
2) Condoms
3) A camera

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

they won't need the 2nd thing you're bringing.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

They're for Remy, obv. He's a known nerd-fucker.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)

You seem to speak from inside knowledge there K ;) ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

Clearly we should all follow Remy in his quest after the Spaceland show on Friday. Or maybe that should be before.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

Bring one insult comic dog.

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:37 (twenty years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/jcoombs/april2600-outside.jpg

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

please do a striptease for them

― kephm, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:39 (twenty years ago)

Turn up with a bunch of people who look like Trekkies. Start some shit.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, I would pay to see a Trek/SW fite.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

"This guy... some kind of Supernerd. It looks like you were built in a laboratory out of parts from lesser nerds."

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fun-shop-online.de/images/733500.jpg

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:46 (twenty years ago)

Such a classic bit. "Which one of these buttons calls your parents to pick you up?"

― happy fun ball (kenan), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

They have their own website. There is no fun left to make of them. Just bring a stick and poke them with it.

HREF=http://www.liningup.net

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

Goddammned HTML.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

I will (1) only do this if I can find a friend to back-me-up.

wait.. so you're scared you'd get a BEAT DOWN by the nerds???

(although if it does happen, i guess it'd be a pretty tough thing to live down)

bring a lot of orphans with you, and get the star wars dudes to adopt them:

"Hey guys, YOU CAN BE THEIR FATHERS!!!"

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:16 (twenty years ago)

ok, i just read the line rules...

who decided that Alyse, Remi, Peter, Rik and Steve 'are the final arbiters of the rules and of rules violations'? i mean, isn't this whole thing just bizarre? if you're in a line, you're in a line. they've set up a whole system where you don't have to be in the line to be in the line, but it's to their rules and you have to sign in and out with them.

i'd be tempted to punch one or more of alyse, remi, peter, rik and steve.

but, since it's remy that's going, i'd go ask remi why s/he spells their name wrong.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:43 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe no-one has said 'one life'.

It would be great if there was a crisis of faith on liningup.net, after their public image was tarnished by the fact that they've been queueing for films like the Star Warses and the last two Matrices.

You could pick up the official comics adaptation on the way, and you and a friend could act out key scenes for them.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

wouldn't it be hilarious if, like, on the day the door finally opens, the guy at the front of the queue realises that he had forgotten to bring his wallet?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

Wait in the queue while watching a torrent of the film on your laptop.

― lock robster (robster), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 09:55 (twenty years ago)

Turn up dressed in a Star Fleet uniform.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 10:16 (twenty years ago)

Are you guys Countingdown.com?
LiningUp.net is made up of veterans from the first line that Countingdown.com organized for Episode I in 1999. Countingdown had no plans to do another line for Episode II and a group of us from that first line decided to keep the tradition going. LiningUp.net is in no way affiliated to Countingdown.

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 11:34 (twenty years ago)

Hooray!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)

tell them you know what happens to anekin skywalker at the end!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

Trayce - you must've missed the episode of Adult Swim's "Robot Chicken", where they HAD a Trek / War fite at a sci-fi convention. OMG Nimoy pwned. Boomshackalacka.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

bring a lot of orphans with you, and get the star wars dudes to adopt them:

"Hey guys, YOU CAN BE THEIR FATHERS!!!"

Make sure they get raised Jedi though, k?

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

These guys have already been interviewed! There are a couple interesting things I learned:
1. The movie is not even opening at Mann's Chinese! At least that's what Fox, Lucas, etc are still claiming. They have another large theater booked, and Mann's is booked a week later by Paramount.
2. Some of these guys don't care if the movie sucks, and even admit it may! They're just in it for the line experience!

I would guess they're on some sort of rotating schedule, but I'd suggest taking some of those hand wipes you get with bbq wings. Hell, take some wings too.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

You should try and convince them to line up outside the local art theater for like the remastered print of Jacque Tati's "Playtime" instead.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

run up & down the line, shouting things like: "hey guys! you know that blue jedi chick with the tittays? well guess what! she dies! she gets blasted in the back! and guess who gets to kill samuel l. jackson!" ...etc.

― kingfish, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:59 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/lego-starwarsnerds.jpg

― Leon Jones Reynolds (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

oh god the metanerdness is boggling!!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

fuck *world implodes*

― Ste (Fuzzy), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

Beautiful(ly wrong).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

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