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Jake Young is a MD/PhD student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in NYC getting a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience. He holds a BS and MS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. If a volcano were to erupt Pompei-style in Central Park, his body would be preserved in a scoliotic posture over his lab desk. Archeaologists would later conclude that he spent most of his day training rats to perform tricks, until he went blind building electrical equipment by hand using a dissecting microscope. But, still, he died happy...because science is cool.
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Category: Words and Writing
Posted on: December 14, 2007 12:48 PM, by NotoriousLTP
Lame. w00t is the word of the year. Pssh. I can come up with so many better words that w00t.
How about Pecksniffian? Sesquipedalian? Casuistry? All those are way better. Just try using Pecksniffian at the bar, and see how many high fives you get. A bunch, that's how many.
Hat-tip: Andrew Sullivan
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how about 'heepish' ?
Posted by: scaramouche | December 16, 2007 5:39 AM
Pecksniff was one of Dickens' more irritating characters, and he wrote a few. The phrase 'Pecksniffian cant' is banned in the UK Parliament - it is considered unparliamentary.
Just though you'd like to know.
Posted by: Peter McGrath | January 5, 2008 7:40 PM