You know how you can tell I'm an English nerd? As if there was ever any doubt. The other day I'm out at a bar with my friend watching the Olympics, and a commercial comes on for that new Christian Slater show -- the one where he's a boring family man by day and some kind of bad-ass secret agent by night, I guess, but each identity is unaware the other exists. Anyway, the ad happens to mention the names of the two alter egos: Henry and Edward. At that point I turn to my friend and say (probably snidely... being pretentious is standard homework for English majors), "I suppose they think they're being sooo clever with those names. You know, what with the whole dual identity thing... like, Dr. Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde?" My friend (an extremely smart guy, mind you) just looks back at me and replies, "Wow, uh, yeah. I never would have made that connection."
And doctor, that's when I knew I wasn't like all the other children.
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