[Mr.X]

May the farce be with you
August 27 2002 - Sydney Morning Herald

More than 70,000 Australians identified their religion as Jedi, Jedi Knight or Jedi-related in last year's national census.

The high number of Jedi-related religions was a response to an email published before the census calling on Star Wars fans to state Jedi as their religion.

"If there are enough people in the country, about 10,000, who put down the same religion, it becomes a fully recognised and legal religion," the email said.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics said Jedi or Jedi-related responses had been categorised as not defined for census output purposes.

"However, due to interest in this matter further analysis of census responses has been undertaken since the release of census data on 17 June to separately identify the number of Jedi-related responses," an ABS spokesman said.

He said 0.37 per cent, or 70,509 people, provided Jedi or a Jedi-related response on their census form.

wOOT!....time to throw another Jawa on the barby....you little humdinger! eek: