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#55546 02/08/02 07:42 PM
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Gawd almighty, you lot of high'n mighty wordaphiles! Doncha know that it refers to Jabbar the Hutt?

It appears that George Lucas named Britain's last (and failing) colonial outpost!



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#55547 02/08/02 08:23 PM
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yer just plain wrong, CK -- it was named for that Muslim mountain of a man Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.


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