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Belly Dancer Turns Sci-Fi Fantasy into Career

blog.wired.com — Professional belly dancer Amira Sa'id turned those hot, sticky memories into a cottage industry for herself. Donning a precise replica of that Leia outfit, she travels to conventions across the country to perform for enthusiastic fans who always wondered what Leia might have looked like shaking what her Padme gave her.

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  • inactive, on 09/09/2008, -2/+75I now know why Han shot first!
  • inactive, on 09/09/2008, -2/+33Belly dancing is fun to watch.
  • Bith8654, on 09/10/2008, -2/+31It brought you to tears too?
  • inactive, on 09/09/2008, -4/+28::grabs tissues::
  • inactive, on 09/09/2008, -3/+25Wondering what made those memories - hot and sticky?
  • DeskFlyer, on 09/10/2008, -3/+20Only if the chick is hot.
  • Rizoh, on 09/09/2008, -2/+18There's something sexy about belly-dancing. Plus, it's very good for your health. Shimmy on down.
  • MysticSavage, on 09/10/2008, -0/+14Everything is porn for nerds.
  • pstroll, on 09/10/2008, -1/+14Those chicks are "sci fi convention" hot
  • aimhelix, on 09/10/2008, -3/+15This is like porn for nerds.
  • jocnnor, on 09/10/2008, -0/+12http://www.smithappens.com/picture/542/Leds-and-re ...

    This is nerdy porn...
    (SFW)
  • inactive, on 09/10/2008, -0/+12This IS porn for nerds (but anime and hentai are also part of that category).
  • firebirdx01, on 09/10/2008, -0/+12I'm a bit meh on the dancing (watching her spinning in circles while holding a lightsaber really just looks weird) but she's a good looking Leia
  • noncn4mst, on 04/15/2009, -0/+11She's much hotter as an Orion.


    (sorry, trekkie here)
  • Kinsbane, on 09/09/2008, -2/+13I just can't resist a hot girl in the Leia bikini. I can't.
  • Haoie, on 09/09/2008, -1/+11Jabba the Hutt's sweat. And someone his size sweats a lot.
  • Calibur, on 09/09/2008, -2/+11Meh, give me a stripper any day
  • mklopez, on 09/10/2008, -3/+12I had the pleasure of meeting Amira at a convention. She is truly a class act, a great, funny girl... and yes, even hotter in person
  • inactive, on 09/10/2008, -0/+7You sayin' you won't be hitting it?
  • FearisFailure, on 09/10/2008, -2/+9Every geek at MIT just blew a load.
  • pstroll, on 09/10/2008, -0/+6Yes, after 3 pints of Romulan ale
  • mogebier, on 09/10/2008, -0/+6I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if 1000's of kittens were crying out in agony.....
  • nobody98, on 09/10/2008, -1/+7Makes you wish the middle east was more like amsterdam eh.
  • hasslinthehoff, on 09/10/2008, -2/+7Olivia Munn wears it better.
  • icrog, on 09/10/2008, -2/+6A queen amongst nerds
  • BXRWXR, on 09/10/2008, -3/+7Nerdgasm.
  • liberalsmack, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4I liked Princess Leia as much as the next guy, but this author is creepy.
  • craighoxton, on 09/10/2008, -0/+4If by "hot" you mean pierced 20-somethings with low self esteem
  • KingGorilla, on 09/10/2008, -0/+3You lie! I'm a robot and my monitoring software just sent me a notification signal
  • jstem1994, on 09/10/2008, -0/+3The website, Leia's Metal Bikini, features over a hundred female fans who model the costume, ranging from some who could almost pass for Fisher, to others who look nothing like the actress.
    http://www.leiasmetalbikini.com/
  • ivaldes1, on 09/10/2008, -0/+3Dugg for the Emperor looking on in the background and wondering if the fire from his fingertips has other uses.
  • EmailAddress, on 09/10/2008, -1/+4"tears" of joy
  • Gustomucho, on 09/10/2008, -0/+3No one else feels ashamed by the whole dancing in front of 200 nerds ? Man, I don't even want to try to figure out what they are thinking when they saw her...
  • 5xSTUN, on 09/10/2008, -0/+2Oh, man, I was at Megacon 2007! But I missed that performance! Dammit!
  • dashdingo, on 09/10/2008, -1/+3Dugg for "...but had to put dancing aside to complete her college degree in physics."
  • inactive, on 09/10/2008, -10/+12I think it's for his ejaculate
  • gilderic, on 09/09/2008, -3/+4Funny and sexy ! The music is pure fun too ! Great vid !
  • dagnome1984, on 09/10/2008, -2/+3Large Hardon Cervical Sensor Activated.
  • inactive, on 09/10/2008, -1/+2hot leia + oola action?
  • EricAnderton, on 09/10/2008, -1/+2Now *thats* hot.
  • antdude, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Are you gay?
  • grantmoore3d, on 09/10/2008, -1/+2the really happy kind
  • johnnyzero, on 09/11/2008, -0/+1Not really, she didn't do crap with it, just went back to dancing.
  • iamghost, on 09/10/2008, -2/+2does she know how to use a light-saber?
  • charlietuna, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1Give that girl a fricking medal. This is a service to society.
  • inactive, on 09/10/2008, -2/+2jesus christ, this is the definition of geek! =D
  • ChayesFSS, on 09/10/2008, -2/+2nerds need to wackit it to something
  • smoger, on 09/10/2008, -1/+1yup, thats a digg.

  • hermes369, on 09/10/2008, -2/+2Am I the only one that finds little to no eroticism in belly dancing? I mean hip isolations, rib isolations, blah, blah, blah. It's too repetitive for me, and too staccato; plus, belly dancing seems to be taking on this 'wholesome', healthy, empowering, hippy ***** flavor. So, maybe I don't hate belly dancing per se. It's the neutering and mainstreaming of it that I'm against.
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