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Poet, dancer, artist, accountant... Now, at long last, the somewhat abstruse and irregularly polymathic JAKE SPATZ has gaudy self-promotional web presence!

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Born with the mysterious ability to resemble everyone but himself, JAKE SPATZ has frequently (and repeatedly) been mistaken for an Italian, a Scotsman, an Argentine, a southerner, an Arab, a Turk, Vladimir Lenin, and a mulatto. In point of fact, he is a semi-ambidextrous American of Eastern European descent.

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The 2006 word of the year is "etceterative." Coined by Angus Fletcher in a blurb for the New York Review of Books' handy one-volume reprint of Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton (1577-1640), the word's first appearance occurs in the sentence: "[Burton's book is] One of the maddest and most perfectly paranoid, obsessively organized, etceterative assaults on the feeble human powers of concentration ever attempted."

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