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Verbalize polysyllabically

Category: Humor
Posted on: June 13, 2006 8:45 AM, by PZ Myers

Hey, I'm not being pretentious, I'm merely paying due diligence to privacy and security issues.

(via Apostropher)

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Posted by: interrobang | June 13, 2006 9:52 AM

Aw, PZ, everyone knows that security through obscurity doesn't work...

Posted by: Ithika | June 13, 2006 10:14 AM

What about security through obscurantism?

Posted by: Ithika | June 13, 2006 10:38 AM

Diesel Sweeties, currently exhibiting both Pirates and Squid: Tronjanimals

Posted by: Zeno | June 13, 2006 4:09 PM

True story (I swear!): Years ago while working on my master's degree in math, I rented a room from a guy about my age who was defraying the cost of his mortgage by renting a couple of the spare rooms. The other renter was from Africa. He spoke excellent English and had a vocabulary almost as large as mine. In fact, the African and I could easily talk above our landlord's head, which used to exasperate him and amuse us. "I believe I shall indulge my peripatetic predelictions with a postprandial perambulation." Yes, geeky and pompous, all at once. Our landlord would fleer at us and demand that we cut it out.

He was a journalism major. He could have been president (and better than the one we have).

Posted by: Bronze Dog | June 13, 2006 4:54 PM

True story (I swear!): Years ago while working on my master's degree in math, I rented a room from a guy about my age who was defraying the cost of his mortgage by renting a couple of the spare rooms. The other renter was from Africa. He spoke excellent English and had a vocabulary almost as large as mine. In fact, the African and I could easily talk above our landlord's head, which used to exasperate him and amuse us. "I believe I shall indulge my peripatetic predelictions with a postprandial perambulation." Yes, geeky and pompous, all at once. Our landlord would fleer at us and demand that we cut it out.
He was a journalism major. He could have been president (and better than the one we have).

Somehow fits with this one crazy guy I've just heard about.

Posted by: Paul S | June 14, 2006 6:05 AM

That's beautiful.