25th May 2012 - an auspicious day indeed

[Luddite]

Gentlemen, 25th May 2012 is...

- Star Wars Day (the 35th Anniversary)
- Towel Day
- Geek Pride Day
- Wear the Lilac Day


So a VERY busy day in the geek calendar. 
I trust you will all be doing something suitably geeky to celebrate?

I for one will be stretching the celebrations out over the coming weekend…

[Ben Waterhouse]

I am envisioning some verry strange costumes...

[GordonY]

Lilac Stormtroopers?

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Got to be better than my day today! My day was taken up with tests for year 7. but the highlight was the tour of the maternity unit with my wife!  two weeks and counting!

[Leon]

...but the highlight was the tour of the maternity unit with my wife!  two weeks and counting!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I am taking my towel to work today and teaching at least two lessons of Hitch Hikers inspired maths today!

[FierceKitty]

Lilac Stormtroopers?

And pink panzers.

[Techno]

Sellers was great in those wasn't he ?....
Oh...sorry....Panzers
Cheers - Phil.

[republic of tolworth]

I'm getting ready to go off to do ww2 reenactment as French, so plenty of geeky prep going on. I will have to do something starwarsy today as the OH is a starwars nut! She has even taken the day off work 
And a manic Prattchet fan. Something to do with 'wear lilac if you were there' day or something like that.

[Hertsblue]

I shall be thumbing a lift to Alpha Centauri. Just hope I don't get the Vogons again! 

[Luddite]

Tonight i shall, with my very geeky wife, be watching the original cut of Star Wars IV: A New Hope.  Han shot first.

This weekend (Sat & Sun) i shall be participating in a 2-day Field of Glory Tournament at my club with some old friends coming up from the south.

Tomorrow night, after i've checked out the state of socio-political play in the EU as expressed through the Nationalist voting on Eurovision, i shall be watching Star Wars V: The Empire Strikes Back (again, original cut), probably followed by an episode or two of the Hitchhikers TV Series.  Beer and peanuts will be consumed as a muscle relaxant.

And Sunday night i suspect shall conclude with Star Wars VI: Return of the Jedi.  I shall ogle the gold bikini and cheer when the Ewok dies.

My geek, this weekend, is firmly on.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Make sure you play a couple of rounds of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rock_Paper_Scissors_Lizard_Spock_en.svg

[Sandinista]

Music for the day...

[Hertsblue]

Make sure you play a couple of rounds of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rock_Paper_Scissors_Lizard_Spock_en.svg

What was never explained as far as I can recall was what the gestures for "lizard" and "Spock" actually were. 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

It's in the wiki article:
Lizard is a sock puppet hand, Spock is a Vulcan hand greeting.