Chatting with a friend last night over Skype, we were discussing our former TM connection, and people we had known in common. When discussing one of them, a woman who we both dated and who was sweet and attractive but...uh...not exactly the sharpest pencil in the box, I found myself describing her using a term I tend to use affectionately, because I know the etymology of the word: "Bimbo."
My friend laughed and said, "Chances are she is still in Fairfield, and still buying *everything* they tell her to buy, believing *everything* they tell her to believe, and still bouncing on her bum every day in the domes. Does that make her a 'Bumbo'?" Cracked me right up. It's the perfect word for that kind of gal who is sweet but so gullible she'll believe *anything*, no matter how outlandish or Newagey. Here's raising a toast in my Bimbo Club shot glasses (I really do have a set) to the Bumbos of Fairfield. :-)
