We managed a snotty laugh about it, and she said: "Your swearing's actually really reassuring".
Even if I can now evade detection on a superficial analysis, though, that's not to say that I'm not still an obvious part of a fairly snotty crowd.
MOST of the time, for most people, respiratory diseases such as influenza and the common cold are little more than a snotty inconvenience.
He was sentenced to 52 years in jail, most of it in solitary: thoroughly, royally screwed, as he put it, by "snotty law-school graduates…with too much power and too few scruples".The CIA's story was that he had gone rogue.
Still smarting from the hazing he received at the hands of snotty easterners when he attended Andover, Mr Chandler bridled at the second-class treatment he got from what he called "the group": the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
"The two businesses were equally dozy and equally snotty," says one former employee.
A similarly snotty manager of the local watering hole sees less destruction in his wake but ends up increasing employee turnover.
THERE'S an old but still popular joke about Air Canada's legendarily snotty service, where a man tries to pick up a flight attendant using airline advertising slogans.
And perhaps eventually I will be able to look a Citroën Berlingo in the eye without gurning like a snotty tree frog as I remember our many family trips in Clemmie's motability model.
There's at least an honesty to a plain old sarcastic, snotty comment.
Sourest of all though is this piece which, in a snotty final salvo, accuses the "mainstream" media of "almost certainly [making] the difference between victory and defeat" for Obama.
