Comments on: Darth Vader bested by canteen worker

By: Clio Bluestocking

Clio Bluestocking — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:34:49 +0000

I thought we got a choice: cake or death.

By: Lady Traveller

Lady Traveller — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:16:36 +0000

Thank you for this as I am up to my eyeballs in final exam essays and this is JUST what I needed! I love Eddie Izzard and this is one of the best bits of his “done” as Legos! THANKS!!

By: Indyanna

Indyanna — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:58:24 +0000

I finished a batch of grading today, not the last but the next-to-last, refueled in part by several doses of the mirth of this clip. So I decided that I was definitely have something smothered in arabiata tonight, but my grocer let me down. It’s back to plain old marinara on the rocks, with a chaser.

Amazing what you can do with Legos. A site of substantial interest for one of my research projects, in the 18th century near Windsor Castle, has become Legoland U.K. in recent years. Too bizarre for me.

By: Digger

Digger — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:50:42 +0000

I totally needed this right now. I give my final exam tomorrow night; I shall be murmuring “death by tray,” I’m sure!

By: quixote

quixote — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 23:09:00 +0000

Every time I see that, it’s as funny … or funnier … or, anyway, I’m laughing so hard I can’t tell.

There’s also a clip of Izzard himself running through the dialogue, but, for me, the Lego version is better.

I’ve met that canteen worker, by the way. He changes jobs, though. Sometimes he’s at the DMV. He’s been a TSA agent, I swear.

By: Comrade PhysioProf

Comrade PhysioProf — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:31:56 +0000

Izzard is totally fucken hilarious!

By: Dr. Koshary

Dr. Koshary — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:22:43 +0000

That’s Jeff Vader!

By: undine

undine — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 19:20:45 +0000

Every time I see “penne alla arriviata” (or whatever it is) on a menu now, I fall down laughing.

By: HistoryMaven

HistoryMaven — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 17:46:54 +0000

Along with the Sophia Gould letter, this reminds me of some of my former colleagues’ behaviors. (I’m still laughing as I write.) And now, having left academe, I ain’t grading, either. (Make that a diabolically self-serving laugh.)

But please know I do miss some of my old life as university-based historian. Thank goodness for your blog, Historiann!

By: koshem Bos

koshem Bos — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:55:26 +0000

Exams are done. This year’s innovation: some students just didn’t bother to write one. One question baffled almost everyone and I thought it’s a give away.

Now is time to watch foreign movies (Netflix), read and make and send to my kids my late mother’s cookies. Too cold for other things.