Word: weirdo
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...alone in my affection. Kai Tak closed five years ago this month, but many still refer to it like a much-loved, weirdo uncle who's no longer around?one who will be forever remembered because he broke all the rules and made you gasp while doing so. Indeed, the airport's closure was another nail in the coffin for the era of romantic travel?Kai Tak was the last embodiment of an age when commercial flying was a buzz. Even an airline amenity kit became a novelty when you flew into Hong Kong: the supplied blindfold...
...buckle shoes, white stockings, a frilly white shirt and a red vest, with a gold pocket watch and a postal bag adorned with a perfectly forged Franklin signature--just one of eight complete outfits--but it did. "My first day here, a bag lady looked at me and said, 'Weirdo,'" Archbold says over breakfast at the Cosi sandwich shop after talking to one of the many homeless people who know him. "You have hit a new level of weirdo when a bag lady is calling you a weirdo...
...Though any interaction with widely-feared weirdo Erica M. Patel ’04 is like being bogged down in a Vietnam-style quagmire, doing a group project with her is like spending six months in the Hanoi Hilton. “So she was going to be in charge of research, and I’d write it up and present in section,” recalls a shellshocked Fred T. Baraka ’05. “Only Erica did research on ‘tribidism,’ which it turns out is the scientific name...
...Many have begun to note that talking with well-known weirdo Erica M. Patel ’04 is a Vietnam-style quagmire. “Pretty soon I was up to my shoulders in the swamp with no exit strategy,” said Jamal B. Rusk ’04 of a Saturday night encounter with Patel. Rusk was saved only when wingman Paul K. Marlow ’04 boated upriver and terminated the conversation with extreme prejudice?...
...Known weirdo Jack J. Van der Bone ’03 asked another man to loan him a pair of undershorts. Though he claimed later that it was merely “a joke,” Van der Bone’s weirdo status was not revoked...