In my automata theory class recently, my professor was going over some discrete math concepts relevant to the course. Without getting too mathy on you, we were talking about pairs of elements and how they can be grouped together. As a real-world example, he was talking about girlfriends and boyfriends, how this particular “girl” element might have a single “boyfriend” element, but then that “boyfriend” element might be paired with all these additional “girlfriend” elements.
At first I was a little caught off guard by the reference, but then my ecentric professor caps his marker, turns to us, and shouts “that skunk!” in reference to the cheating element.
I never thought I would find so fantastic a mean name to call people! It’s gender neutral, yet has a very clear negative connotation.
I guess I could worry about the animal rights, and if its skunk-ist, but I imagine I will call everyone who wrongs me a “skunk” until that movement becomes more main-stream.
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