Salacious Crumb is the disgusting little monster that accompanies Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. His only appearance is in this film, and it is implied that he dies when Jabba's sail barge is destroyed over the Sarlacc pit.
Salacious Crumb is a semi-intelligent creature called a Kowakian monkey-lizard, and looks something like a cross between the two namesake creatures — about two feet tall, nearly hairless, lanky, and with a beak-like mouth. He…
There are several hundred species of ladybugs (commonly called ladybirds outside the US), which comprise the family Coccinellidae in the order of Coleoptera--that is, beetles. Ladybugs are generally identified by their very VW Beetle like shape and their yellow, red, or orange, spotted elytra. However, colour and patterns vary greatly even among members of the same species, and spotless bugs as well as black bugs with orange or red spots are not uncommon. In Australia, where everything is…
This node is not about metal implements of death, but about a board game. Specifically, it is about a board game in the Milton Bradley Gamemaster series, that was published in 1986 under the name Shogun. It is a game for 2 to 5 players, although it should really be played by 4 or 5. The game was later renamed to Samurai Swords because there is another game that is also called Shogun. It was designed by Michael Gray.
Samurai…
The whistle stop (or whistle-stop) is originally a railroad term for a listed station or stopping place where trains do not stop unless signaled to do so by passengers or stationmasters. The purpose of this is to save time on the route at stations which have low and/or infrequent traffic. There are two possible origins for the term - the first is that the train would usually signal its approach to the station by sounding the train whistle, so that passengers could move out into view on the…