May the Fourth be with you.

I’m not sure the first time I heard it, but it wasn’t that long ago (in a galaxy far, far away), and I’ll admit it was pretty funny.

At first.

You hear it a few dozen times and it sort of loses something though.

Then you forget about it for a year and it’s once again mildly amusing.

My students these days do get the reference, and unlike an earlier generation, can actually say about Star Wars movies, “I like the new ones” and not have me gagging.

May the Fourth be with all of us indeed.