You don't need that word. Just replace it with several smaller words that don't quite mean what it means.

Rednecks wouldn't be able to afford squirrels if they were valuable.
I think that would still be problematic. If I tried to eat an appendix I would puke myself to death.

No.
I consider most authors to be celebrities if they sell lots of books and are published by a real publisher. Internet video stars are just people who accidentally found the door into John Malkovich's brain.
Okay, fine. Only similar to people.

I don't think so. No grad student I know has a lab account. We don't have our own labs, after all. Indentured servants don't need their own lab accounts.
I know how to do it and I wouldn't have to send out for anything except the sequencing. Illumina is very much a black box to me.

I sure couldn't think of any replacement words in the moment. I stood in front of the class and Did Not Speak. It was great. Fun for everyone. If I hadn't eventually found the word, I would probably still be there now.

Maybe squirrels secretly have great value, but rednecks don't want anyone else intruding on their monopoly, so they keep it a secret. Squirrels look like they're full of secrets.
You could surgically implant the appendix in your stomach? If we're already doing bowie knife surgery, you may as well go for it.

What if the video stars are licensed by major companies? What if they publish books based on their experiences as video stars? What if they cross over into real acting? Where does the madness end?
Not too similar to people. He styles himself like a secondary character in an urban fantasy novel. Or is it the other way around?

Clearly you do, because people keep giving you money. Unless you enjoy the anxiety of watching it sit in your usual account.
Scientific black boxes are fun, though. Through raw nonesense in, shiny data comes out. It's like baking. You like baking, right?

I made the most beautiful vegetable risotto in my instant pot. It breaks my heart, it's so lovely. It's even good reheated. I spend all morning looking forward to eating it for lunch, and all afternoon reminiscing about how good my lunch was. My productivity is way down.

So you experienced what international students experience all the time. Not a big deal.

I think you're forgetting about the principles of supply and demand. There is a plentiful supply of squirrels, but only rednecks want them. Their value is therefore low.
Then we're back to the organ rejection problem.

They're probably celebrities when they make money at the thing they're supposed to be famous for. Buzzfeed employees aren't exactly raking it in.
Other way around, for sure. Is "secondary character in an urban fantasy novel" a fancy term for "casual goth?"

They only did it once. Never again. And I'm finally getting to the point where I can spend it. Hurray!
What's happening to your spelling and grammar? "Through raw nonesense?" And baking is also not like a black box. Please stay away from baking until you understand how it works a little better.

Yikes. You've handicapped yourself with a risotto. Maybe some things are actually too good to eat?

What, so you're all about the free market now? You gonna go all Capitalist on my squirrels? No. Screw that. I believe that squirrels are valuable.
Okay, okay, fine. No surgical insertion of appendices. This is your problem now. If you can't find a way to perform your own appendectomies, then you'll never be able to bring down Libertarian Minicon Guy.

But the Try Guys most definitely make their living off their videos. The Buzzfeed Unsolved people, too. That is their actual job. Does that not make them celebrities by your definition?
Most casual goths, if inserted into an urban fantasy novel, would still read as "casual goth", and would be nothing more than extras. Neil Gaiman, if inserted into an urban fantasy novel, would immediately achieve secondary character status. Fitting into the fashion category is not enough.

"Through raw nonsense" was supposed to be "throw raw nonsense". That's been happening a lot recently. I try to type one word, and wind up typing another, somewhat similar, word instead. It doesn't even really qualify as a typo, because my hands aren't the problem; my brain is. I don't know what it is. I never used to do that.
Baking is pretty much a black box though? Put ingredients in bowl. Stir. Pour into other vessel. Put in oven. Gosh! Wow! Baked goods appear!

You can pry my risotto from my cold, dead hands. If I have to choose between it and grad school, I choose the risotto. I'm eating the last of it today, though, and I'm preemptively mourning it. Maybe I'll make it again this weekend.

You were to one telling me to live in the woods and perform surgeries with a bowie knife. What did you expect? These are the circumstances under which capitalism must flourish. You did this.

Yes, they make money. They do not make a lot of money.
Is it the nose? The voice? It's gotta be one of those. Or both.

Globble? Globble? One time I tried to type globe and kept getting globble. This is the inevitable death of your brain beginning. It's a long process.
Unless the oven has a window. Then you can watch what happens. No longer a black box.

Hopefully next time it will turn into an unappealing sludge for no clear reason. I'm rooting for the Pot to save you from yourself.

We might have to reschedule Quiz. It's so stressful. Are you supposed to get another snow dump on Saturday?

But don't "Freegan" and "Hippie Homesteader" also converge on a similar suite of traits, despite having no affinity for capitalism whatsoever? The woods hold many weirdos. You need to become one of those weirdos, but your particular ideology is up to you.

Oh, so now there's a wealth cutoff for celebrity? Rude.
I vote nose, definitely, but I'm always Team Nose. I'm not the most unbiased observer.

"Globble" isn't a word, though, so hopefully your brain would catch it on rereads. My brain couldn't even detect that I had written "through" instead of "throw".
My oven has no window. Sounds like fancy new-fangled technology. I don't like it.

The Pot and I have reached an agreement. I give the bottom a good scrape after sauteing things in it, and it doesn't turn my food into sludge.

Why would you have to reschedule Quiz because of snow? We've had snowy Quizzes before. Our weekend is warm and rainy down here--maybe thunderstorms. No snow until Monday.

Not so much the self-surgery. Hippies aren't into that. And I doubt anybody but another Libertarian could hunt down a Libertarian.

That's what I was saying. Were you not paying attention? Probably distracted by Neil Gaiman's nose.
Have you listened to any of his audiobooks? You might be swayed. Membership on both teams is allowed.

Nonesense is also not a word, but there it was. I also occasionally use a homophone while typing, particularly when I type fast (NaNo), and I didn't used to do it, either. It probably has something to do with how you store words and retrieve them for writing vs. reading. And getting old.
Yes, our oven is the peak of modern technology. You've really taken a step down.

What, was your original procedure to just let everything build up in the bottom until in created a super secret bonus meal? Surprise, the bonus meal is sludge.

Something about not wanting to die on the icy roads. I don't know. It's not a problem for me. They're all just worthless and weak.

Maaaaaybe I can relax the requirements on self-surgery. I'll take it up with management. Your point regarding the abilities of non-Libertarians against Libertarians is well-taken, but consider this: instead of hunting down the Libertarian, drain his will to live.

I don't think you said that, in specific human words. My human brain does not infer things. It is indeed distracted by Gaiman Nose.
I haven't. I'll retain my membership on Team Nose for now, but I'll keep options open. The audiobooks cost money, right?

Nunsense. Nonesense. Makes sense. I don't want my brain to be using different storage mechanisms for different things. Can I reorganize in there? Hire new management, maybe?
I know, right? But kind of true, because the lighting mechanisms in my stovetop don't always work right, so sometimes I stand there letting gas fill the house while desperately trying to get the burner to light. It's scary. Sometimes there's a big fireball when it finally goes. I've started turning the burner back off if it takes more than a few seconds, to let the gas dissipate for a little while, but I don't know if that's more dangerous or less.

No! I clean it. It just turns out that the problem was that a lot of recipes call for a few ingredients to be sauteed in the pot before everything is pressure cooked, and if anything stuck to the bottom during that stage, the pot wouldn't come to pressure and would make sludge instead.

Hah! Back in my day we died on the icy roads and liked it. Tell the young folks to stop being worthless and weak. Also their parents. Hold Quiz on your own if everyone else is too chicken to show up.

Using social welfare programs?

I got one of the books for free. I don't remember why. I could probably figure out a way to send it to you. Have you read the Graveyard Book?

Yes. But I can't tell you how. That's a secret.
If it's a big problem, just use a match. Buy some matches. Live in the woods. I think that's how it was done, in the past.

That doesn't make sense. How can something in the bottom of the Pot affect the pressure inside the Pot? Your physics is wrong. Or the internet's physics is wrong. Somehow.

Too late. Postponed. Now I have to think about it for another week, if not longer.

Obviously. Find the Libertarian in the woods and bring him food assistance. Maintain safe and comfortable paths to and from his outpost. Build little houses for the homeless near where he hunts for squirrels. His Libertarian spirit will wither like a bad tomato.

Nope. You send me illegal free book?

Now you're suggesting that I become a Libertarian? Or are you welcoming me into your Hippie enclave? Either way, I don't want to buy matches.

The Pot has a burn sensor that's supposed to prevent a horrible charred mass from forming on the bottom, but it's a bit too sensitive, and won't let the Pot come to pressure if anything at all is adhering. It's not physics. It's technology.

Boooooo. No one can stop you from holding Quiz on your own. Just do it.