For the remaining few who haven’t yet heard about these two geniuses… “The Force is strong in John Guth and Jeff Tweiten. How strong” The Seattle Times asks?

Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones’ won’t open until May 16, but the two Seattle-area fans are already in line for the film.

Guth, 32, and Tweiten, 24, claimed the widely uncoveted first and second places in line outside the Cinerama on Jan. 1. Boldly thumbing their noses at hygiene and day jobs, they intend to wait there with only short, alternating breaks, for the entire four and a half months. They’re using sleeping bags, and if the weather gets too much like the ice planet Hoth, they say they’ll sleep in a van.

Theater management has conceded it has no idea whether or not the new Star Wars movie will even play at its venue. But such an inconvenient fact can’t stop these former late night D&D warriors — both of whom, it seems, are hoping to pass off their imbecility as some sort of aesthetic “statement”

In a written statement, the two said they are ‘dedicating their lives to a cultural phenomenon that has inspired their hearts and instructed their values throughout their lives’ But standing outside the theater in normal street clothes yesterday afternoon