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Leader of the Jedi Council, Yoda was. For centuries, a Jedi.

To Dagobah he went. For twenty years, lived there did he. Bored, he might be.

Do what, did he?

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    he ate mud and buggs obvy – Himarm Oct 29 '15 at 13:24
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    Sat around waiting for Luke to show up so he could refuse to teach him. Then he got in a fight with a beeping garbage can over the worst flashlight ever made, and he lost. – Wad Cheber Oct 29 '15 at 13:35
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    Downvote this, why? – enderland Oct 29 '15 at 13:39
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    Meditated, probably. – Rogue Jedi Oct 29 '15 at 13:54
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    @RogueJedi I read that as "medicated", and thought you were implying that Yoda was a junkie. – Moogle Oct 29 '15 at 15:06
  • I've added a comma to the title, because I couldn't understand what you were doing without reading the question text. I think this way is easier to get the intent. Feel free to revert if you feel strongly, but you used the same punctuation in your final question line already. ("Do what, he did?) – ThePopMachine Oct 29 '15 at 15:34
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    @Moogle Take his medications, he must. Old, he is. –  Oct 29 '15 at 16:27
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    I don't know that this is canon any longer, but I recall an EU book where they suggest Yoda uses Dagobah to hide. Apparently it has a strong dark side presence (or something), and that clouds and conceals his own presence in the force, which keeps the Sith from tracking him down. – Dan Smolinske Oct 29 '15 at 18:18
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    Do what, did he? Did he dumb? Did he do? - Mannfred Mann – Octopus Oct 29 '15 at 18:47
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    @DanSmolinske That implication is in "Heir to the Empire" chapter 14 near page 164. They speculate that Yoda lived near the dark cave on Dagobah to hide his light-side force signature using the strong dark-side emanations there. "Just like a pair of positive and negative electric charges close enough together - to a distant observer they look almost like no charge at all." – Eponymous Oct 29 '15 at 18:57
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    @Octopus "There he was, just a-sitting in the swamp. Singing...". Can we copyright this before Weird Al Yankovic writes it? – DJClayworth Oct 29 '15 at 19:25
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    @Axelrod: When 900 years old you reach, take lots of pharmaceuticals you will! – Codes with Hammer Oct 29 '15 at 20:31
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  • do what, Yoda did?
    • – Wolfie Inu Oct 30 '15 at 05:37
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    Could be the same thing Obi-Wan did on Tatooine for twenty years. – Octopus Oct 30 '15 at 05:37
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    @Octopus kept an eye on the child of his old friend to make sure that he was safe while he grew up? – GAThrawn Oct 30 '15 at 13:10
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    @Octopus - my assumption was that Obi Wan was on Tatooine to keep an eye on Luke. – Greg Brown Oct 30 '15 at 14:24
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    Yoda chose Dagobah because it was high on force (I believe I have watched it somewhere), so he was ofcourse interested in doing research on the Force. – user931 Oct 30 '15 at 17:41
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    We never saw the steamer trunk full of Twi'lek Monthly magazines, but it was there in the back of the hut. – Omegacron Jan 05 '16 at 15:58
  • The usual: stand on his head, stack rocks, etc. – John Sensebe Mar 08 '16 at 20:59
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    good edit @user14111 - I considered doing the same – NKCampbell Dec 04 '19 at 23:46