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  • The audience knows "The Voice" doesn't work that way because the film in the gom jabbar scene has shown that it's a form of hypnosis, not telekenisis.

    David Lynch and Frank Herbert Discuss Dune | /Film 2010

  • Lynch's was good for harvesting certain scenes that matched scenes from the book astonishingly faithfully, like the gom jabbar test in the beginning if you overlook bald Reverend Mothers.

    Pierre Morel’s Approach to Dune: “Faster, More Modern,” Compared to the ‘84 Version | /Film 2010

  • November 11th, 2009 4:39 am ET my deepest prayers go out to abdul-jabbar. you are a brave soul and a hero to many. thank you for your outreach in teaching others about this disease. may god give you strength and healing, joy and peace throughout your journeys.

    Basketball great Abdul-Jabbar has cancer 2009

  • So I'm collecting odd terms like "slan" or "gom jabbar," but more obscure, from actual published works of SF, especially older pulp work.

    Blogest tobiasbuckell 2006

  • So I'm collecting odd terms like "slan" or "gom jabbar," but more obscure, from actual published works of SF, especially older pulp work.

    ccfinlay: Blogest ccfinlay 2006

  • Paul shows signs that he may indeed be this man as he grows older, and the Reverend Mother tests him with the gom jabbar, a test normally only reserved for women.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Kristen 2008

  • Paul shows signs that he may indeed be this man as he grows older, and the Reverend Mother tests him with the gom jabbar, a test normally only reserved for women.

    Reviews of fantasy and science fiction books Kristen 2008

  • In other words, I just wasted about ten minutes of my time trying to translate mumbo-jumbo jibba-jabbar because I don't want to do any of my schoolwork.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

  • I'm in pain, sort of a breastfeeding related gom jabbar.

    1tbm 2008

  • Saiph, ` The Sword 'appeared in Mr. Rehmus's list, but the full name is al saif al jabbar, ` The Sword of the Giant.'

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3 1984

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