Editing 1918: NEXUS

{{comic
| number    = 1918
| date      = November 20, 2017
| title     = NEXUS
| image     = nexus.png
| titletext = You also refuse to buy Cisco products because you hate the Thong Song, O. Henry, Deep Space Nine, freshwater whitefish, teenaged Incan emperors, Brak's brother, and vegetable-based shortening.
}}

==Explanation==

[[Cueball]] is confusing {{w|NEXUS (frequent traveler program)|NEXUS}}, a [https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/nexus USA and Canada border control pre-screening program], with [http://ferngully.wikia.com/wiki/Hexxus Hexxus], the villains from the animated film ''{{w|FernGully: The Last Rainforest|FernGully}}''.

Trusted traveller programs like Nexus allow people who match certain criteria to apply for a membership and subsequently save time when boarding airplanes or crossing borders via use of expedited lanes.

FernGully is a story set in an Australian rainforest inhabited by fairies including Crysta, who accidentally shrinks a young logger named Zak to the size of a fairy. Together, they rally the fairies and the animals of the rainforest to protect their home from the loggers and a malevolent pollution entity, Hexxus. Hexxus has previously been mentioned in [[1750: Life Goals]] as an especially hard-to-spell word and in [[1767: US State Names]] (as a replacement for Texas).

The title text is confusing {{w|Cisco Systems|Cisco}} (a telecoms & tech brand which has a line of switches called {{w|Cisco Nexus switches|Nexus}}) with:
* The artist {{w|Sisqó}} who performed '{{w|Thong Song}}'
* {{w|The Cisco Kid}}, a character created by {{w|O. Henry}} in the short story "The Caballero's Way"
* {{w|Benjamin Sisko}}, commander of a space station in the Star Trek Universe (''{{w|Deep Space Nine}}'')
* {{w|Cisco (fish)|Ciscoes}} (freshwater whitefish)
* [http://emperorsnew.wikia.com/wiki/Kuzco Kuzco], teenaged Incan emperor in ''{{w|The Emperor's New Groove}}''
* [http://brak.wikia.com/wiki/Sisto Sisto], brother of Brak in ''{{w|The Brak Show}}''
* {{w|Crisco}} (vegetable-based shortening)

==Transcript==
:[Megan and Cueball walking through an airport.]
:Sign: Apply for 
NEXUS 
Save time 
at the border
:Megan: Maybe we should sign up for this.
:Cueball: No way. I refuse to have anything to do with Nexus after what they did to FernGully.

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