Needs More Lightsabers

[gileadslostson]

A conversation on twitter with Charlie Jane Anders from io9 spawned this idea: what would be made better by adding lightsabers. Well, other than everything.

Ian Sales has provided the first idea (parliamentary debates) so I just have to work out how lol. I'm open to suggestions for future posts though

Thanks.
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[gileadslostson]

I will, of course, give credit where credit is due and I'll link to the blogs/sites of anyone who gives an idea that I use.
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[Ali_L]

Board meetings.

Sunday family visits.

Meetings with your solicitor/bank manager/boss/dentist (delete as appropriate...)

Oh, and cooking. They'd chop the onions in no time, wouldn't they.

Rather a lot of things, come to think of it.
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[gileadslostson]

Thank you! Rebecca J Payne suggested the Antiques Road Show that lot'll keep me going for a while. Links to you shall abound. Now I just have to decide on the format
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[Pete]

I think mini-light sabres would make very good chopsticks, if you had a 'hard light' option, so that they'd actually pick things up instead of just slicing and dicing ad infinitum. And then you could use them on standard setting to cut up your meat.

My mini-epic "Sex Toy Story" had a character called Lance the Light Sabre, only he was really a common or garden torch pretending to be something he was not so that the sex toy community would accept him as one of their own. It was quite sad, really
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[gileadslostson]

Lmao, poor lance. TV cooking shows using lightsabers to slice and dice =) and perhaps the dismemberment of the losers
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[Ali_L]

Slice and dice and give everything a light BBQ-style charring, while you're at it...come to think of it, it's the perfect all-in-one cooking accessory.

Surprised they haven't been showing it off on QVC.
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[Pete]

George Foreman has a prototype in development even now.
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[gileadslostson]

They need us for a think tank
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[Pete]

I've just been round the local chippie, and while standing in line it occurred to me that the ideal environment for light sabres would be a kebab restaurant. It cooks and cuts at the same time. Darth's cousin Stavros Vader is already on the case.
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[StevePalmer]

Sabre toothed tigers.
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[Pete]

Great literature, 'improved' by the addition of light sabres:-

Vader, Vader glowing bright,
With a sabre made of light;
What gauntleted hand could hold
A blade that burns bright and bold?
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[gileadslostson]

Lightsaber tooth tigers?

And Pete that shall be used and accredited I'm still mulling over the format, I actually wanna try and make it good.
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[Pete]

I think literature provides plenty of scope for light sabre improvement, with Shakespeare in particular need:-

'Is this a light sabre that I see before me?' - Macbeth

'Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your light sabres' - Julius Caesar

'A light sabre, a light sabre, my kingdom for a light sabre' - Richard III

'To bear the slings and light sabres of outrageous fortune' - Hamlet

'Who steals my light sabre, steals trash' - Othello

I could get quite obsessive about this, you know
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[gileadslostson]

Your obsession is my gain
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