Who would think of working a casual reference to Aliens into a blog entry about a trip to Disneyland. Nobody but James Lileks, that is.
Usually I hate turbulence, but I was too tired to care, and I slept through it like Hicks on the drop down to LV-426.
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The “Snow White” reference is appropriate, too.
I caught that too, and loved it. Tiny, brilliant.
I had a Hicks and a Hudson in one section last semester, and dropped a couple references to the movie (including pretending to confuse them) early on. They totally didn’t get it.