Are you a Boffin?

June 29, 2005 5:51 PM

Try the potato barrels on Tuesday. Boffins want, and indeed deserve pampering. Boffins, boffins, boffins! I haven't heard that word in a while and now I can't stop saying boffin. boffin.
posted by longsleeves (4 comments total)

Um, here, you can read all about boffins without having to go to an ad to a...um...I don't know, what is it? Some kind of faux fancy club for scholars? Check please.
posted by Slack-a-gogo at 6:11 PM on June 29, 2005

If only the term denoted one who gets a lot of boffin, I might have stuck with a straight science ticket instead of veering off into the applied sciences. As for a boffin club, didn't that end with Plato's Retreat?
posted by gregor-e at 6:35 PM on June 29, 2005

"Well, it may be cold up in Saskatoon, but it can’t be colder than our bedroom"

Sammy Kershaw
posted by Floydd at 7:13 PM on June 29, 2005

Boffins, boffins, boffins! I haven't heard that word in a while and now I can't stop saying boffin. boffin.

Does the term backroom boffin give you an even bigger rise?

I wish I was a backroom boffin but all I am is a boffin of buffoonery.
posted by uncanny hengeman at 12:12 AM on June 30, 2005