A librarian friend forwarded the below excerpt, from an MSN article about NJ Governor McGreevey.
There are hints in McGreevey’s background of his discomfort, his unease in his own skin. At St. Joseph’s High School, he didn’t sit at the cool kids’ table or the jocks’ table but with the bookworms, says one of his teachers, Jerry Rabadeau.
As my friend aptly surmised:
Kinda lets you know where ‘bookworms’ rank in the minds of most Americans.
There are no words. Or far too many. More than a few of them being expletives.