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How to identify a twerp

05.21.2012 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

In the old days, as Kurt Vonnegut said, a twerp was someone who went around putting false teeth between his ass cheeks and biting the buttons off taxi cab seats.

Now that taxi cab seats no longer have buttons, a twerp is a person who says "amazing" instead of "amusing."

Like other twerps, who are always telling you how "brilliant" seemingly everyone they work with is, these twerps are trying to tell you they are amazing, for having such an amazing life.

You don't have to be brilliant to know that, when you're dealing with someone who is perpetually amazed and awestruck, you're dealing with a twerp.

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