Monday, January 19, 2009

Mercury the Hutt

My husband has an unhealthy obsession with toys. He refuses to get rid of his childhood action figures and we have Mr. Potato Heads for every holiday and geeky movie franchise (ie Star Wars, Spiderman, Transformers). This drives my nephews nuts because Josh also refuses to let anyone play with them ("They'll get scuffed!" he cries).

He also has an unhealthy obsession with tormenting my poor cat who is, admittedly, a little over-plump (I like to think of her as "Rubenesque"). He often refers to her as "Mercury the Hutt" because, in his words, "She has a tendency to fold into her squatty body."

So the other day, he set up this picture:

Apparently this is a re-enactment of a pivotal point in "Return of the Jedi" where Leia dresses up like the bounty hunter Boushh in order to free Han Solo from carbonite


Josh wanted to make sure I included the quote from his facebook page: "Mercury the Hutt says, 'This bounty hunter is my kind of scum: fearless and inventive.'" If you didn't know this before, I am married to a nerd of gigantic proportions! (That is, his nerdiness is gigantic, not my actual husband).

2 comments:

Carissa said...

I don't remember Mercury being quit so "fluffy". Has this change occurred because of old age or just excessive eating? Or has Josh posed so many toys around her that she has begun eating them?

Or maybe she is depressed because she has been reduced to something as humiliating as posing with Star Wars figurines. She probably eats to numb the pain.

vaxhacker said...

"Bona nai kachu, bantha poodoo. Tak-koh tee womprat e'nachu."

--Her Exalted Highness, Mercury the Hutt, expressing mild annoyance at being posed with action figures.