So I arrived back to the newsroom today after covering a thrilling meeting about the start of spring break and what should I find but the press kit for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Inside was a CD-Rom full of stills and other production goodies but what I didn’t expect to find was A WHIP! You heard me right, LucasFilms is arming movie reviewers and other press folks with facsimile whips. Of course I was eager to test out the aforementioned whip so I cheerily went into the morgue (the place where one can find back issues of newspapers) and cracked it around a bit. The early trials produced few achievements other than a sizable welt on my right hand. Undeterred, I trekked into our warehouse, that used to house our printing press and began to play around with it. After many attempts, I’ve come to the conclusion that the whip is far too long and not wound tight enough to actually give that trademark Indy crack but it was pretty cool nonetheless.

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