Jedi Knight Religion


	Jedi Knight Religion

sahara

12-1-2007 8:11 PM

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hoax, religion, belief

sahara says:

I can just imagine how this got started. What do you want to do today? Let's start a new religion....

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The British government dismissed the suggestion as nonsense, but thousands of people decided to try it out anyway.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Hoaxipedia/Jedi_Knight_Religion/"><P>
When all was said and done, there ended up being more Jedis in England than Jews (according to a source within the ONS who prefers to remain anonymous).
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Since it’s doubtful that all those thousands of people actually were practicing Jedis, the massive write-in campaign may qualify as one of the largest mass pranks in history.
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The prank then spread to Australia which also was conducting its census in 2001. The official grand tally of Australian Jedis: 70,000.
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