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Even though it's the time when I am at most immediate risk, riding my bike in Manhattan traffic is also one of the only times when I am never anxious or afraid — not even when a cab door swings open right in front of me, some bluetoothed doofus strides into my path, or a dump truck's fender drifts within an inch of my leg.
For example, the last time I visited Deshler, I ran into a guy known as Doofus for most of the '80s and '90s.
Dumped by her boyfriend, she blunders into a calamitous one-night stand with Max Jake Lacyy), a straight-arrow doofus out of smalltown Vermont.
(Still, I'm glad to hear he's more doofus than harasser).
Our friends at Snakkle.com dug up Hamm's old yearbook photos and it's pretty clear the 42-year-old was a bit of a doofus back then (that grin!) and seemingly way more into '80s fashion than one would advise.
We have already gone in two years from the affable campaign doofus portrayed in Alexandra Pelosi's HBO documentary and Frank Bruni's election memoir, "Ambling Into History," to the incisive, decisive chief executive of Bob Woodward's war-room reconstruction, "Bush at War".
What a doofus.
As fond as brand advertisers may be of talking lizards, doofus dads and hip hamsters behind the wheel, the cutesy and clever is rapidly decaying into memebait.
Did they call Philip Roth a doofus?
It seems like only a few years ago that we began making wry jokes about the doofus minority of people who walked down the street while texting or otherwise manipulating their phone, bumping into lamp-posts and so forth.
"We needed more of that lovable doofus".
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