Craptions – July 30th

This just came across the NEG boards:

- Time to listen to some Dropkick Murphys, drink 37 pints, and get revenge on those f**ing tiny bear things.
- WHY AREN’T YOU WEARING GREEN? EVERYONE IS SUPPOSED TO BE WEARING GREEN? GO HOME “NOW” AND PUT SOME GREEN ON? MOVE IT, MOVE IT, MOVE IT!!!!
- “Thhhe rebel plansh are not in the main computer… We’re gonna need to check out thish other pub, I mean computer..hic!”
- Go ahead jawa. I f**king DARE you to type something funny about me.
- Ironically this picture was taken before Happy Hour
- Open the pub doors! Open the pub doors!
- How the f**k did these guys get costumes that are so awesome when they couldn’t even afford clovers that aren’t just paper cut-outs?!
- The empire’s covert invasion of planet Ireland went off without a hitch. If you wear green, hand out free brews and carry a gun, no one asks any questions.
- Something, anything had to be done to improve the storm troopers aim. Thats when Lord Vader had his wildest Idea. ….. Lucky Charms
- You should see how they celebrate 420
- “Hey! Hey Storm Trooper, say ‘all your base are belong to us’!”
The photographer was subsequently shot.
- Troopers!! To the PUB!!

The rest are here: http://www.cracked.com/craptions/craption/933

The trooper pictured? That’s me.

501st Caught on Camera

Here’s a bunch of pictures that surfaced this week on flickr and other places:

Great success!

Noooooooo!

NEG @ the Hasboro Inny Awards

I just love this picture

A couple reading pictures for some reason. Remember kids, cool Imperials stay in school.

Group shot of the Science Meets Imagination opening.

A bunch from I-Con:

And a couple of pictures just uploaded of the NEG in Boston:

More Boston Pics

Pictures are still coming in from the Boston Parade. Here’s the latest batch:

Another Video…

Here’s another video from the Boston St. Pat’s parade:

Video from Parade

Just found this on youtube:

Those kids were absolutely thrilled!

More from Flickr…

Here’s some more pictures that I found from Flickr of the NEG in Boston this weekend:

And some other garrisons – I believe these are members of the Midwest Garrison in Omaha Nebraska:

Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade, New England Garrison

The 501ST NEG Marched in the 2008 South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade over the past weekend, to wide-spread enthusiasm and excitement from the crowds of South Boston. The legion’s marched this parade before, and it was widely acknowledged that this year was one of the best times out for the time of year.
Boston is home to a large Irish-American community, with deep roots to Ireland – as a result, there was a crowd of quite probably tens of thousands on March 16th, for a parade that was multiple hours long.
The NEG was in fine force for this event, with over 60 people marching (this is including members of the Rebel Legion as well), in addition to 10 additional wranglers, who were much needed for some areas of this parade. Two trucks mounted with speakers blasted Imperial March and several other recognizable tracks from the Star Wars soundtracks, putting the crowds into the proper mood as we walked past. The entire length of the parade was about four miles, and it was probably a 2.5-3 hour walk for us, up and down hills.
The NEG marched in formation, with Vader leading the pack in the second truck, with the TK, TS, TB, Clones, Bounty Hunters and Denizens following behind. Wranglers kept the crowds back, and there were numerous requests for pictures, handshakes and general screamed enthusiasm for us as we went by. There were thousands of cameras in the crowd, and when we stopped, there was a number of people who stepped out to us.
By the end of the parade route, we were ready – it was a long walk, and the bus back was very welcome. At the staging area, we got our suits off, and went off.
A number of us met up just after at Goodtimes, a restaurant not too far away, for dinner and talking.

Personally, I found the parade to be a really fun time – I hadn’t done the parade before, and was thrilled that the weather was decent for this – I think that I’ve been spoiled for future parades.
I did have a lot of problems getting into Boston – I think this is the worst experience that I’ve had driving around a city, because I got completely turned around for about two hours, arriving at the pre-parade get together at Flattop Johnny’s on Saturday. It was extremely frustrating. A thousand thanks to my friend Bill for giving me directions for the last half hour or so. I ended up spending the night at his apartment, so as to avoid another couple hours of missed turns. The next morning, Billy and four of his friends came to help us out, which was really appreciated by all.

The get together at Flattops and Goodtimes was a lot of fun. I got to see a lot of people I haven’t seen in a while, which was a lot of fun. Next time, I need a map of the city.

More Videos on the NEG

More from Youtube:

Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade, New England Garrison

The 501ST NEG Marched in the 2008 South Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade over the past weekend, to wide-spread enthusiasm and excitement from the crowds of South Boston. The legion’s marched this parade before, and it was widely acknowledged that this year was one of the best times out for the time of year.
Boston is home to a large Irish-American community, with deep roots to Ireland – as a result, there was a crowd of quite probably tens of thousands on March 16th, for a parade that was multiple hours long.
The NEG was in fine force for this event, with over 60 people marching (this is including members of the Rebel Legion as well), in addition to 10 additional wranglers, who were much needed for some areas of this parade. Two trucks mounted with speakers blasted Imperial March and several other recognizable tracks from the Star Wars soundtracks, putting the crowds into the proper mood as we walked past. The entire length of the parade was about four miles, and it was probably a 2.5-3 hour walk for us, up and down hills.
The NEG marched in formation, with Vader leading the pack in the second truck, with the TK, TS, TB, Clones, Bounty Hunters and Denizens following behind. Wranglers kept the crowds back, and there were numerous requests for pictures, handshakes and general screamed enthusiasm for us as we went by. There were thousands of cameras in the crowd, and when we stopped, there was a number of people who stepped out to us.
By the end of the parade route, we were ready – it was a long walk, and the bus back was very welcome. At the staging area, we got our suits off, and went off.
A number of us met up just after at Goodtimes, a restaurant not too far away, for dinner and talking.

Personally, I found the parade to be a really fun time – I hadn’t done the parade before, and was thrilled that the weather was decent for this – I think that I’ve been spoiled for future parades.
I did have a lot of problems getting into Boston – I think this is the worst experience that I’ve had driving around a city, because I got completely turned around for about two hours, arriving at the pre-parade get together at Flattop Johnny’s on Saturday. It was extremely frustrating. A thousand thanks to my friend Bill for giving me directions for the last half hour or so. I ended up spending the night at his apartment, so as to avoid another couple hours of missed turns. The next morning, Billy and four of his friends came to help us out, which was really appreciated by all.

The get together at Flattops and Goodtimes was a lot of fun. I got to see a lot of people I haven’t seen in a while, which was a lot of fun. Next time, I need a map of the city.