The new film Sully is many things. A wonderful story for one, but also a term used to identify or describe a person who's

gone beyond the impossible to save your ass or the ass of others.

According to the Urban Dictionary, a sully is at minimum a situation so bad that a complete

hack trick was never in the cards and with an outcome or accomplishment so improbable that it just never happens.

Not just anyone can be a sully, however.

Designating or describing someone as a sully requires that they not just perform for all practical purposes.

A sincere, hey no problem, that's my job, or it's okay, that's what I'm trained for just another day at the office type of

miracle but thereafter must maintain the fundamental poise and character of the real sully.

And by the way, this is a man who not only shun the spotlight, but who requested a waiver and an extension of overdue fees from his local

Danville, California library after the book he'd checked out was left in the cargo hold and was lost but known to be at the bottom of the Hudson River.

The book subject, no surprise. Professional ethics. As a postscript and something

reminiscent of all the great work by public servants attending to the actual Hudson River forced water landing,

the librarians in Danville, California

waived all the fees, even the lost book fees,

and placed a template in the replacement book dedicating it to

Captain Sullivanberger.

That's who we're talking about here.

And of course that's the subject of the new film Sully.

Pilot Chesley Sullenberg's wild ride started when he landed a U.S. Airways jet plop solid perfect onto the icy surface of the Hudson

River on January 15, 2009 saving all 155 passengers on board.

Fame has followed ever since, and Sullenberg's nickname,

Sully, is now this one-word phrase

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