R2D2 in Springfield!

Back in May 2007, in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the debut of Star Wars, the United States Postal Service had a stroke of major creative genius and converted a select few of their mailboxes into R2D2.

I was reminded of these nifty mailboxes last week when I scoured sxc and flickr for images of Malaysian, Swiss and US mailboxes to complement a post about World Post Day, and was pretty geeked out by how cool these R2D2 mailboxes were.

Way back when, I had heard rumour that one such mailbox was somewhere in Chicagoland: seeing as we're at the end of 2009, I figured all R2D2 mailboxes had since been transformed back into their 'usual' colors, and I kicked myself for not having looked for one when I had the opportunity.

... so imagine how overjoyed I was to stumble upon R2D2 here in Springfield!!

Pity about the graffiti, though.

Have they no respect?!!

If you want to see this for yourself, head on over to downtown Springfield: R2D2 will be waiting for you on the south west corner of 5th and Washington.


HAPPY HUMP DAY!!

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"again!"

You know how when you're playing with kids, and maybe you give them a piggy back ride all around the house and they enjoy it so much that when you set them down they just look up at you and exclaim "Again!"?

Or when you go though an exhilarating ride on a roller coaster, and you stumble out, adrenaline coursing through your veins, throat hoarse from screaming, and all you want to do is get right back in there for another round? "Again!"

So, can you guess what word Kosh managed to utter after watching Robot Chicken's Star Wars special?
"again!"
I felt the same way too.

If you didn't catch it live, watch it here. Smaller embeddable clips here. Like this one:

Some fave moments from other parts of the episode:

"what the hell is an aluminum falcon?"
"get your OWN tauntaun!"
"yo momma so stupid she spent the whole day playing "am not" with R2!"
"look, if you're not gonna take this seriously, I'm out."
"That was so wrong..."
the entire "Empire on Ice" bit!!

... and I wonder how they managed to bwak their way through the entire end credits, LoL!

"again!"