In this article about "self-organising networks", I came across this wonderful line:

[Tansley] publicly accused Smuts of what he called "the abuse of vegetational concepts" - which at the time was considered very rude.

Hottentot.

i'll show you an abuse of vegetational concepts:

http://www.supermegamonkey.net/chronocomic/entries/scans2/MOKF19_vsManThing.JPG