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1. interrobang says

   13 June 2006 at 9:52 am

   Aw, PZ, everyone knows that security through obscurity doesn’t work…

2. Ithika says

   13 June 2006 at 10:14 am

   What about security through obscurantism?

3. Ithika says

   13 June 2006 at 10:38 am

   Diesel Sweeties, currently exhibiting both Pirates and Squid: Tronjanimals

4. Zeno says

   13 June 2006 at 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).

5. Bronze Dog says

   13 June 2006 at 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.

6. Paul S says

   14 June 2006 at 6:05 am

   That’s beautiful.