Boffin

I just watched Balderdash and Piffle on Teleport Replay and they were discussing the word Boffin. Someone caled Armando Pacono Rabano (or similar) who seemed to be from the Anglo-Italian side of Brian Sewell's family, claimed to be a boffin because he knew rather a lot ... about history.

Balls.

Everyone knows that there are three characteristics of a boffin:

1. He must have a 'high forehead' (technically, Tefal Man Syndrome);

2. He must wear a white coat; and

3. He must be involved in science in some way.

History? Pah! The archetypal boffin is Profesor Patpending from Wacky Races. (ok his coat is beiger than Terry Wogan's trousers but that's not the point, honest)