Chapter 35

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Star Wars marathon
Possibly just the original trilogy. The Phantom Menace was released in theaters 1999 and on DVD sometime in 2001. Attack of the Clones comes out in theaters 2002.

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T-shirt reading ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US
"All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a phrase that became an Internet meme. The text comes from the opening cutscene of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the video game Zero Wing by Toaplan, which was poorly translated from the original Japanese version.

The meme developed from this as the result of a GIF animation depicting the opening text which was initially popularized on the Something Awful message forums. more info

See the type of hat here.

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Sam the King of Cool
aka Samuel L. Jackson, the actor, who often wears a Kangol hat.

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Love you in Pulp Fiction, baby. That Bible quote?
Samuel L. Jackson (see note above on page 384) played a hit man in the film Pulp Fiction and would often deliver a not-quite-biblical monologue before shooting someone. You can see it here.

Little more on this famous quote. Here's the ending of Pulp Fiction where Jackson's character "explains" the quote: YouTube.

The somewhat misquoted Ezekiel passage from the film: Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.

King James version of Ezekiel 25.

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an oversize bottle of vodka, named after a Lithuanian basketball player
“Sabonis” is the Russian slang for a huge bottle of vodka. Basketball star Arvydas Sabonis was the center of NBA's Portland Trail Blazers between 1995-2001 and 2002-2003. He won the Olympic gold with the Soviet national team in 1988 and played in Žalgiris Kaunas club in the 1980s, contributing to its legendary victories against CSKA Moscow. After Lithuania regained independence, he won two Olympic bronze medals with the Lithuanian team.

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I've come in for an episode of inconvenience myself
maybe even a couple of episodes - The Inconvenience ship in Against the Day here Inconvenience HMS in Mason & Dixon here

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Eurowire
Type of "lever-backed" earring. More info here.

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Already, as the Eagles say, gone
Already Gone. 1974 Eagles song.

Winston Churchill
Apparently he really did say "Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

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Cybiko
Real hand-held device. Wiki.