The American love of peanut butter is as mystifying to many Britons as the British love of Marmite (yeast extract on toast?) is to me, but, as Jon Krampner writes in "Creamy & Crunchy," his enjoyable and informative new history of peanut butter, there are plenty of other countries that adore the crushed goober pea.
Their lack of personal style — what Cameron Silver calls "their goober factor" — is a source of curiosity for the fashion people around them: Is their aesthetic cultivated or in earnest?
QUESTION FROM DAVID ALLAN : In the New Republic on Monday, Alec MacGillis wrote that, "Huntsman is doing his best to conjure up a sense of momentum for himself, but he is such a low-energy goober on the stump that it comes off as something less than fully convincing".
And it's a pathetic contrast to another big news story in Washington -- the resignation of Representative Mark Souder, Republican of Indiana, a goober who preaches sex-abstinence and couldn't abstain from sex.
Mr. Schulman's job is to be credulous, the true-love goober with a 5 o'clock shadow.
I know it's a little extra legwork, but you need to go back in time, slap on a fake moustache, sneak into the studio audience at Tavis Smiley, and throw pebbles at your past self's face until he remembers not to be a goober.
(At least he didn't spit up on the green this week, although I think I did notice him honking a goober onto the 17th fairway).
Ui is transformed from goober to Übermensch, his loose steps turned into goose steps.
I'm sure that I had a big goober smile on my face as I contemplated such an outcome.
He's a bit of a goober, on the page an adorable one, deep in heartsickness.
