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[[Two characters walk & talk together.]]
Bald character: We're almost at the back to the future date.
Hair'd character: We're even closer to the star wars tipping point.
Bald character: The what?
[[A timeline appears, labeled at 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010.]]
Return of the Jedi
| The phantom menace
| | May 13th
| | |
|<------>|<-------->|
-----|-----|-----|-----|------
1980 1990 2000 2010
Hair'd character: On may 13th, the phantom menace will have come out closer to return of the jedi than to the present
Bald character: Wow.
Bald character: It's weird how I'm constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the universe.
Hair'd character (gazing into distance): You know, "a long time ago" should have "plus four more decades" added in rereleases.
{{Title text: A long, long time (plus 40 years) ago, in a galaxy far, far away (plus a corrective factor involving the Hubble constant) ...}}
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