There are signs, and then THERE are signs.
We see signs every day! They tell us information like business names and advertise things on billboards. They warn, regulate, and guide us. There’s The Sign by Ace of Base. Zodiac signs are supposed to predict our personalities somehow. Everyone has heard the phrase, “It was a sign.” So when that viral picture of an interesting message on a reader board resurfaced, it was a clear sign of who we needed to make the seventh and July Todd of the month.
It was either late 2016 or early 2017 when I first saw the viral picture for the first time. I am Todd, the first-ever January Todd of the Month and the Todd behind stormstrouper.com, who helped manufacture the prestigious Todd of the Month award.
Before we go further, let me talk a little bit about the Todd of the Month award. The award works like Employees of the Month, but we honor individuals and things for just being named Todd, not because the individual or thing did something exceptional or remarkable, like cure a disease or three-peat their Yahoo Fantasy Football League. Besides me, we have endowed five other Todds with the Todd of the Month recognition so far this year.
The five that came after me in this order include the famous Simpsons cartoon Todd Flanders, Todd, North Carolina, in the North Carolina mountains, Todd the intergalactic Wraith, the beautiful Todd Street, and the infamous bully Todd Lanuzi from Beavis and Butt-head.
I’m tagging the viral picture back in. The picture shows a white read-board sign on the sidewalk in front of the Hideaway Piano Bar (St. Louis). Someone organized the message on the sign into three rows of black uppercase text that reads “LIGHTSABER NIGHT,” “HAS BEEN CANCELED,” and “THANKS A LOT TODD.”
After several laughs, this picture leaves me with two questions: What is Lightsaber Night, and what did Todd do to get it canceled?
What is lightsaber night?
Well, lightsabers are the laser swordlike weapons that Jedi use in Star Wars. Maybe lightsaber night is when individuals show up to practice and show off their lightsaber skills of attacking, defending, spinning and tossing, and deflecting and reflecting laser blasts. If true, this sounds like a dope and amazing time!
What did Todd do to get lightsaber night canceled?
I can’t even fathom what action someone could take to get lightsaber night canceled. Not even my overactive imagination can form potential causes. That is between Todd, the Hideaway, and all the sublime folk at lightsaber night that evening.
Before formally presenting this Todd of the Month award, we at stormstrouper.com must say we do not know what Todd looks like and how to contact him. But we would like to do that now. We officially want to applaud the Todd who got lightsaber night at the Hideaway Piano Bar canceled for being the July Todd of the Month and the seventh Todd inducted into the exclusive Todd of the Month Hall of Fame. So, if anyone knows him, please let him know. Thanks.
What Todds do you believe should be up for this accolade? Let us know through the @stormstrouper Insta, write in the comments, or email stormstrouper.writing@gmail.com.
Photo credit for the LIGHTSABER NIGHT…HAS BEEN CANCELED…THANKS A LOT TODD sign photo goes to the CJAY92 Twitter Page.