Here is an example of how I remain (SIGH) the king of the geeks…
The other day, one of my students informed me that the makers of the upcoming film Snakes on a Plane have registered domain names as future sites to promote possible sequels. It would seem that the highest of all high-concept films has spawned theoretical sequel titles that include:
(1) More Snakes on a Plane
(2) Snakes on a Train
and (I kid you not!)…
(3) Snakes in Outer Space
We then began to wonder how many OTHER possible high concept snake titles we could think of…
Two hours later, thanks to a copy of Halliwell’s Film Guide, we were completely dehydrated from laughter, as we went through the entire alphabet of film listings, replacing key words in film titles with the word SNAKE. Some of our favourite gems include:
(1) Seven Snakes for Seven Brothers
(2) The Two Snakes of Fu Manchu
(3) Give Me Back My Snake
and, most brilliant of all…
(4) With Snake Come Eggroll
You may not believe that one adult and four teenagers could sit at a table for two hours, stupidly distorting movie titles, and laugh until complete organ failure threatened to occur…
…but we did! It was the best afternoon I’ve had in months. 
