Easter Eggs

This book contains a variety of unexpected treats. If you are in mood for a treasure hunt, seek out the following items:

• At least three references to the movie Jerry McGuire
• Atticus Finch, from Harper Lee's superlative To Kill a Mockingbird
• Tabasco sauce and Mahi Mahi
• Your grandma
• A plumber with muddy boots
• Handsome Rob, from the 2003 movie The Italian Job
• Raphael's portrait of Baldassare Castiglione
• The first paragraph of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility
• The word milquetoast
• Lyrics from the song sung at the very beginning of the movie Breaking Away
• Eusebius, the historian
• "Hello, nurse!" from The Animaniacs, and again in German
• Hermes, the Greek messenger god
• The Pirate Code (it's really more of a set of guidelines) from the Pirates of the Caribbean movies
• Shakespeare
• A few notes from A Fella with an Umbrella, Irving Berlin's song from the 1938 movie Easter Parade