My dad, Mark, has a lot of nicknames. These include "Prancing Patrick", "Glow", "Big Man", "Mr. Incredible", and "Oven Mitts". Well I've come up with a new one: "Dodgson".

You see, Dad's eyes are pretty bad. His sunglasses are prescription (distance), so when he doesn't have his clear ones with him, he just wears the sunglasses everywhere, even indoors. And these are those big, dark aviator glasses, so you can't see his eyes. I've always thought it was funny, but I really started laughing at it for the first time a couple nights ago, when he came home from the gym.

He had his hair all sprayed and slicked back, with the glasses on. Not only was this at night, he'd been home for a good ten minutes and still had them on. I blew up into a five-minute laughing fit because he looked like a secret agent, and the James Bond theme and Secret Agent Man were playing over and over in my mind as I looked at him (whilst pointing and laughing).

This then reminded me of one of my favorite scenes in Jurassic Park, when Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) is having lunch in Puerto Rico with the representative of a company who is paying Nedry to steal dinosaur embryos. The guy shows up in a Panama hat, with those same aviator glasses on.

Nedry: "Oh! Dodgson!"
Dodgson: "You shouldn't use my name."
Nedry: ".......Dodgson. Dodgson! WE'VE GOT DODGSON HERE! ...See? Nobody cares....Nice hat. What are you trying to look like, a secret agent?"