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I\u2019m out of here!\"). The modest teller will accept the blame (\"Oh, I forgot to mention that the mother-in-law was a blond Republican Fortran programmer!\") and order drinks all around. 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While remaining treasured in France and many other countries the poly in the UK has been so stigmatized as inferior to its elitist rivals that a truly British solution has been mandated: the polytechnics have been renamed as universities!  This now-dated slur I hate to clarify for non-Brits involves the sad and unfair decline in prestige suffered by certain higher-educational establishments set up in the UK for \"vocational\" rather than \"academic\" training. While remaining treasured in France and many other countries the poly in the UK has been so stigmatized as inferior to its elitist rivals that a truly British solution has been mandated: the polytechnics have been renamed as universities!"},{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","unstructured":"Unlike coolth which has been attested dialectically since the 16th century dumbth is yet to be widely blessed in the dictionaries in spite of Steve Allen's coinage and a book of that title (Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking Prometheus Books) circa 1996. Allen tries to separate the facts that most people ought to know but occasionally don't know through sheer accident and those facts or logical steps in reasoning that really really are so damned widely known and obvious that dumbth rather than ignorance is the only natural explanation. Some of Allen's examples are borderline however. A classic gotcha is: \"Fancy not knowing that Gregory Peck played the title-role in Moby Dick.\" It's more likely to catch out those who do know the actor and the movie but are temporarily confused by the meaning of \"title-role!\"  Unlike coolth which has been attested dialectically since the 16th century dumbth is yet to be widely blessed in the dictionaries in spite of Steve Allen's coinage and a book of that title ( Dumbth: The Lost Art of Thinking Prometheus Books) circa 1996. Allen tries to separate the facts that most people ought to know but occasionally don't know through sheer accident and those facts or logical steps in reasoning that really really are so damned widely known and obvious that dumbth rather than ignorance is the only natural explanation. Some of Allen's examples are borderline however. A classic gotcha is: \"Fancy not knowing that Gregory Peck played the title-role in Moby Dick .\" It's more likely to catch out those who do know the actor and the movie but are temporarily confused by the meaning of \"title-role!\""}],"container-title":["Queue"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/1538947.1541357","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1145\/1538947.1541357","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,18]],"date-time":"2025-06-18T20:26:54Z","timestamp":1750278414000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/1538947.1541357"}},"subtitle":["Puns and allusions"],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2009,5]]},"references-count":2,"journal-issue":{"issue":"4","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2009,5]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1145\/1538947.1541357"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/1538947.1541357","relation":{},"ISSN":["1542-7730","1542-7749"],"issn-type":[{"type":"print","value":"1542-7730"},{"type":"electronic","value":"1542-7749"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2009,5]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2009-05-01","order":2,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}]}}