After the summer of 1983, I returned to high school and took my computer programming class. I blogged a while back about making everyone mad when I turned in my final project of H-Plots and V-Plots on an old Apple IIe to create a battle of TIE Fighters and X-Wings with the Death Star behind them. But before we got to programming basic pictures, we had to make other text based items.

I had been a huge fan of the Eamon, text based adventure games and tried poorly to recreate one in the Star Wars realm....I was able to get about five or six levels into the programming before I would lose myself. Still, I got a good grade out of it.

One of our assignments involved making a quiz. Of course, in true geek fashion, I created a Star Wars quiz. It had questions linking Star Wars to Mythology and other sorts of inspirations that George had drawn from. The question that got most people talking about and pondering was "What was the 2nd most uttered phrase within the Star Wars Trilogy." I gave hints such as the fact that it was spoken by different characters and that it had nothing to do with the Force (well, maybe deep inside it did).

The answer....of course......"I have a bad feeling about this."

Even among the other Star Wars fans in my school, there weren't a ton of us, I foiled their every attempt to guess the right answer. I would give vocal hints if they were stuck on it for a long time (in a galaxy far far away), but would not give them the answer. If they gave up I would tell them and they would groan in agony of the answer being so in front of them.

There it put me, the king of the geeks. Able to program a computer with a single......ok, SEVERAL lines of code. Able to crush a grading curve with a single picture (that didn't really make me a hero, though). Between the programming and the over abundance of Star Wars references in every conversation, PLUS my killer breakdancing moves, I was set. Well, within my own small group of friends I was, and that's all that mattered.

I was so happy to see that George had decided to keep up with this phrase through the prequels as well.