We have a special treat today in the Odyssey! Our wise and trusted friend, Psychologist Psid, has dropped in for a wee visit to treat us to his insight and intellect! Today, Psychologist Psid (PP) will be dissecting some common office behaviors he has observed over his many years of experience. As a brief warm-up, a sort of intellectual stretching exercise, ole PP takes on the unenviable lad at right.

"Clearly a pretentious pedant of preternatural proportions, this pitiable poseur perpetually prattles about prose and poetry whilst perambulating about the office. Probably a prima donna putz."

Ok. It's cool. Now, what have we here? The suspiciously beige-clad male of this pair appears to work in the marketing department. Clues include matching clothes, smugly self-satisfied demeanor, and the number "666" flashing in red above his head. Also, although we don't have audio here, this person seems to be emitting a subaudible hum in the bass range, causing the female to recoil slightly in alarm. This is common in marketing people. Insofar as the hum frightens insects, it is actually pretty useful. However, it does have the notable downsides of attracting tradeshow paraphernalia and small rodents.

This appears to be something of an abbreviated mating ritual. The marketing person, his day's work of nauseating others with buzzwords temporarily at a standstill, has taken to marking time before returning home to his family by flirting with the department admin. The astute observer will discern that this is in fact the admin by noting the lack of full-height walls on her cube. Admins only get half-height cube walls because, presumably, they are only half-people. This doesn't make them feel angry at all! In fact, they like some good-natured ribbing about it every now and again. Try it! You've probably got a pretty good health plan, anyway, right?

In any case, our would-be Lothario's attentions would pretty clearly be better spent on a new tailor instead of this admin, who can't hear his sweet-talk above his outfit, which is positively screaming, "Try some color variation, there, Armani-breath! And get a haircut while you're at it!"