"Sigsbee H. Waddington," he said, "is one of those men who must, I think, during the formative years of their boyhood have been kicked on the head by a mule. It has been well said of Sigsbee H. Waddington that, if men were dominoes, he would be the double-blank. One of the numerous things about him that rule him out of serious consideration by intelligent persons is the fact that he is a synthetic westerner."
"A synthetic Westerner?"
"It is a little known, but growing sub-species akin to the synthetic Southerner - with which you are doubtless familiar."
(from The Small Bachelor, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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