It doesn't get more obscure than this: " 'You'd want a good class of a pelt on you,' he said to the girl at the till.
My husband said, 'You can't get more obscure than Pakistan.' " There she met women in purdah, arms dealers, opium smokers — into the book they went.
It is a medical high-wire act; doctors in the audience squirm as the set of facts gets more obscure and all the diagnoses they were considering are ruled out.
To get more obscure than those, you basically have to draw Scrabble tiles randomly, which is perhaps how parents come up with neologisms like "Cree," "Izan" and "Emi" (for boys) and "Safi," "Nanou" and "Esosa" (for girls), all of which cropped up for the first time last year among the 450,000 births to registered users of BabyCenter.
But keep looking, and you'll find that the gambling choices get more obscure by the second.
I could start digging and get more obscure with the female singers of the fifties, I picked the obvious ones--Chris Connor, June Christy, Julie London and Jeri Southern.
"As our tastes got more obscure," Geddy Lee said in a recent interview, "we discovered more progressive rock-based bands like Yes, Van der Graaf Generator and King Crimson, and we were very inspired by those bands.
Yes, we're getting more and more obscure here at CG. (Razer has several other videos that take you all the way from downloading the software from its Web site to assigning buttons in the game. Razer also has a new mousepad, the Megasoma, for which the company wants $50.
As the new substances get banned, the ones that replace them become more obscure and volatile.
And analysts say as these spills have focused more attention on pipeline safety, the once-obscure PHMSA is getting more comfortable with flexing its recently enhanced muscles.
