OK Mr.Confidence, time to ante up. My name is Thomas L. Felber. I lived for thirty five years in California, from 1952 to 1987 in which time I went from Kindergarten to graduate school, rode SP and ATSF passenger trains, hopped a freight or two (something I would never do again, read just about every book on trains and railways I could lay my hands on, fought wildland fires with Calfire when it was still the Division of Forestry and worked as a lookout, rode just about every Western train Amtrak has run, moved the "Peoples' Soviet of Washington" (ou can Google the reference), moved to the United Kingdom after numerous visits/ shorter stays and taught English children how to speak German and French, also experiencing how civilizd countries run their transport systems, Autobahnen and all, and continue to fight fire as a volunteer on my tiny little island somewhere surrounde by the waters of the Pacific Ocean.
So, what's your special idiocy? But before answering, look up the derivation of the word from the Greek. Google is ever so handy in this age.