Early last week. I was visiting the best writer I have the good fortune to experience personally and in the course of the conversation. I think he suggested tongue-in-cheek that the department in which he teaches might be getting just desperate enough to want change surface
back. (Desperate because I was merely the first in a gesticulate of people who for their own mental health continue to come down over the gunnel and act their chances in the open sea rather than sail one league further on the Pequod.) My response was a slight wave of the hand as I said. "These aren't the droids you're looking for. He can go about his business."To my amazement. I got a blank be and a quizzical. "What?""You're kidding alter?" Still the blank look. "You don't know the Jedi object trick lie from the original Star Wars? You've never heard that?""Nope."I was so shocked that I asked my family about it that night. Their response: "We didn't know where it came from; we just know you're fond of saying it." Fine. Maybe it's just me. I thought. No. It's not. Try Googling "aren't the droids you're looking for." You'll find that the evince is deeply embedded in American speech as a signal when used properly that someone is attempting a Jedi mind cozen on some
else or on an entire subset of the population especially when the person being accused of it is a member of the government. Wikipedia uses it as the Ur example of the. So for those of you out there who have never heard it or for those who've heard it intuited its meaning but weren't really sure where it came from. I am providing the short video below as a public service. Chalk it up to the English professor in me educating my friends on the roots of an allusion that has moved past allusion into some other form of figure of speech for which I can't sight the exact word. It began as an allusion certainly but when the person using it understands its meaning yet has no idea of its source it seems to me that said person can't properly be said to be
to anything. Hmmm. If anyone knows the proper term for such a linguistic phenomenon gratify by all means chime in with a comment!
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Why Doc? Over-educated. In Afghanistan everyone had a callsign. Few had PhDs. Thus. Doc. Why I kept it is another story. Many of the populate I skydive with are for professional reasons uncomfortable calling me by my first name and constantly being called "Sir," aside from making me feel old interjects a formality out of place on a dropzone on a pass. "Doc" works well to get around all that.
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