Terminology Elitists Pillows

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

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

I think he's joking. "Placebo" can't be a real medical science term. It sounds like a funny name for a clown.

"...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'?"

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

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

"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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"Sorry, sir. But if you can't pronounce it, you can't have it."

'There's nothing wrong with being highbrow.'

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

Wussapalooka

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

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

'The Garrett Club'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'The GOP has a Purity Test!'

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

'I hear your headmaster's only listed in Who's Who.'

"What are you pretending to be absorbed in?"

We create an e-reader that shows the world your cover on the outside. It'll advertise your interests. Plus, it'll let us all make snap judgments about each other. We can walk by people, see what they're reading and think about how superior we are. You're salivating. Technology, personal judgment. Say no more.

"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