Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think it's nice because it helps bond the team, when we're all calling each other names that we have picked," pitcher Janet "Lefty" Dickerman says. "It's funny, though, because all nicknames come from stupid things...
Contrary to Dickerman's claim, however, not all nicknames have "stupid" beginnings--some are downright intellectual in origin...
...dubbed in headlines, was charged last year with running a posh prostitution service out of a Manhattan town house. Apparently the indiscretion did not much bother the 300 guests who paid $40 apiece to bolster her legal-defense hope chest. Not that Barrows was totally forgiven. "She was stupid," chided one guest, "she used credit cards." Some things are just too vulgar to overlook...
...uncertainty. At the same time, such conformity can make you feel like a micropreppie in the greater scheme of Preppiness. I remember going to a party last year where two other guys had the same rugby shirt as the one I was wearing, and I felt pretty stupid. It's a bit Orwellian to walk into a party where everyone is wearing the same thing...
...name missionaries have been given in popular American lore was at least partly earned for all of them by those who were barren-minded the devotees and bigots, who were often immensely shrewd but were seldom immensely intelligent. How could a Protestant God have stone shed such stupid enthusiasts?" David once burst out in his diary, after a brush with a pair of narrow fundamentalists...