What's the difference between doofus and pinhead?

Doofus


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  • (1) I don’t know if it was Obama or Hillary (I suspected Hillary), but it’s really something to focus group beforehand.” In December, when Tanden wrote in praise of the Paris climate deal, Podesta responded: “Can you believe that doofus Bernie attacked it?” Then, in March this year, Clinton strategist Minyon Moore opined: “I think Sanders is a rule breaker and has no institutional loyalty to the Democratic Party; we should expect him to ignore the rules and persist in his quest to flip superdelegates despite overwhelming evidence that reflects his considerable weaknesses with the Democratic base and no doubt in the general.” Tanden, meanwhile, pulled no punches when Clinton’s campaign hesitated over whether to condemn Democratic activist David Brock for demanding Sanders’ medical records.
  • (2) And yet us doofuses who came here to watch thought he might bother saying something interesting beyond that!
  • (3) He was, it seemed, destined to be a professional doofus.

Pinhead


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  • (1) McDowell, a film-maker in his own right, collaborated with Kuchar on several movies, as an actor in Siamese Twin Pinheads (1972), The Sunshine Sisters (1972) and The Devil's Cleavage (1975), a 130-minute recreation of 1940s and 50s black-and-white melodramas.
  • (2) In laboratory feeding tests, family groups of wild mice maintained in pens and conditioned to feeding on plain foods were offered flupropadine at either 0.10%, 0.15%, 0.18% or 0.20% in pinhead oatmeal bait.
  • (3) The palatability of glycerine and six oils, each included at 5% in pinhead oatmeal, was compared in a similar manner.The most favoured food was found to be whole canary seed (Phalaris canariensis).
  • (4) In six workers, unroofed vesicles, pinhead areas of postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, and excoriation marks were noted at these sites.
  • (5) FIPTs, on ophthalmoscopy, usually are pinpoint to pinhead size, round or oval, dull white in color, and situated in deeper layers of the retina and beside the major retinal arteries and their main branches.
  • (6) It was here that in 2002 Markram began accumulating data on a section of the rat neocortex no larger than a pinhead.
  • (7) Both poisons were applied in pinhead oatmeal bait containing also 5% corn oil, after pre-baiting.
  • (8) WBA 8119 at 0-002%, 0-005% and 0-01% in pinhead oatmeal bait gave complete kills of mice in 'no-choice' feeding tests carried out in cages and small pens.
  • (9) An objective examination of the patient revealed the presence of multiple follicular comedones, black in colour, the size of a pinhead, and of yellowish follicular papulas, 2-5 mm in size, of solid consistency, on the top of which is a formation similar to comedone.
  • (10) For subjects considered by each reader to present predominantly p type opacities, increasing opacity profusion was exclusively and significantly associated with an increase in the number of pinhead fibrotic nodules.
  • (11) Neuropathological findings were as usual, with additional unusual features: pinhead-size areas of acute myelin-abbau products, involvement of grey in addition to white matter, and upon ultrastructure, the new finding of intra-oligodendroglial fingerprint bodies, both in neuronal satellite and in white matter oligoglia, but not in astrocytes, ganglion cells, or pericytes.
  • (12) The characteristic appearance of "pinhead" outpouching from the lumen of the esophagus is seen with contrast esophagram.
  • (13) It was Douglas, now an emeritus professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, who first fired Markram's enthusiasm for lab work and, with his exceptionally steady hands – useful when stitching together neurons smaller than a pinhead, Markram was soon enjoying a meteoric rise.
  • (14) They are firm deposits of monosodium urate in crystal form, which develop from pinhead-size to egg-size in the subcutaneous tissue.
  • (15) Idiopathic calcinosis of the scrotum usually develops in the form of scrotal calcified nodules varying in number from 1 to over 100 and from pinhead to walnut in size.
  • (16) Medieval schoolmen sharpened their brains by counting angels on pinheads.
  • (17) Pinhead oatmeal and wheat were also comparatively well accepted.
  • (18) "The fungus is very, very small, like pinheads, on the leaf stalks.
  • (19) In four pen trials, family groups of laboratory-reared wild mice were conditioned to feeding on plain foods and then offered flocoumafen at 0.005% in pinhead oatmeal bait.
  • (20) The relation between the profusion and predominant type of small rounded opacities on chest radiographs taken within four years of death and the postmortem counts of dust lesions in four classes (macules, "pinhead" fibrotic nodules, nodules 1-3 mm, and nodules greater than 3-9 mm in diameter) has been examined for 71 coalworkers without progressive massive fibrosis.

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