Quote Originally Posted by Peelee View Post
Or he was just bull****ting some backwater bumpkins with fancy space-talk. Kenobi rolls his eyes at that line, after all.
Possibly. And if George'd left it there, I'd be inclined to believe you. But then he went and made it so that yes, Han did in fact take a short-cut to make the run shorter, retro-actively justifying his goof.

"Your knuckles say 'COBRA'. Did you ever kill anyone?"
"We're getting off the subject."