Terminology Elitists Mugs

'I want my ideas called 'concepts' not 'notions'.'

Natürlich verstehst du es nicht. Er ist ein Künstler für Künstler.

"...and you call yourself a computational immunotox-pharmacological an-diffracctiion bimolecular therapeutic ononclonal-antibody genomic metabolic-endocrinologist."

'Oxford, Cambridge, Redbrick, Poly . . .'

"I preferred the graphic novel of the origin story of the original prequel."

"Why 'Black Death'? Why not 'rodent-related'?"

" will enver read that book, and I"m eagerly waiting to avoid the movie."

'This is serious. I think our area of expertise lacks a buzzword.'

"Hibernation sounds old fashioned. Now we call it binge sleeping."

Geek wears T-shirt that points to his friend and says: 'I'm with someone who fails to grasp the key principles of modular representation theory.'

“Don’t underestimate his lawyers. They went to Harvard.”

"To the unsophisticated, I suppose, I'm guilty."

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'There's nothing wrong with being highbrow.'

"I worked my whole career to get a chair, and this is it?!"

'The Garrett Club'

"Sorry, this is NOT a school, it is a university: we have an entrance exam..."

"You call them slaves. I call them a support group."

"Lady, I didn't go to barista school just to serve you black coffee."

'I'm sure that last ball was lbw.'

"I'm not a scaredy-cat - I'm phobic."

"I'm a voracious amasser of reading material."

"Of course we Left care about the working class! Just as my shoemaker, my gardener, the wine dealer or the tailor!"

'Pedantic? He's the only person I know who insists on calling it a hippoPOTAMUS!'

Pompous young oxford man asking someone whether he was 'at either university'

"Come on into my office, twitters, and let's get right down to mumbo jumbo"

'The GOP has a Purity Test!'

Millionaires club: "The bad news is, this recession has forced us to recruit lottery winners!"

"What are you pretending to be absorbed in?"

'Eureka! I've just coined the word, 'Eureka'!'

"Papi, are we 'hispanic' or 'Latino'? Of course, both those labels might be wrong. Latins are from Italy and not Spain...but 'hispanic' is a term made up by the government. Some people say we should be called 'Ibero-Indians' but maybe we should identify w