How to pronounce “wonk” in English

wonks that we've created like in high school elections that we hated them before.

Quite wonky. It's quite wonky.

lab is like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. If you visit, it's magical and the students that I teach and the

They're all wonky, but from a distance, it looks very much like what we have.

And this is wonky eyed jewel squid.

Where it went wonky was when they compared themselves to other people, because they assumed everyone was competent.

That requires some wonkiness and trying to figure out just how you design and structure that.

a dark side to Wonka.

The previous Wonkas, and I guess adding in your previous career experience, how do you approach everything-- how did you approach this from a new perspective?

speak that the wonks in DC understand.

Way too weird and wonky a process, and bureaucracy, and hydrology.

This is a wonky little picture that I actually just found an updated version of this morning.

had a fairly wonky group of creative people we were able to Envision

I'm not a policy wonk.

If you're a data wonk, check this stuff out.

We've got our little wonky little Google logos.

George Fabian was this super-rich Willy-Wonka-type character who bought a 350--

There's a ton of Willy Wonka references, which is probably fun for anyone who knows it and other people are like, what are they talking about?

It's my one business wonky slide.

Please welcome to the stage Willy Wonka himself, Christian Borle, accompanied by songwriter Marc Shaiman.

And then we figured out who Willy Wonka was.

and doing all sorts of other wonky things.

And it's very Willy Wonka, like everything's edible.

So sort of this is Willy Wonka style for you guys.

And that's Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka illustrating my point for me.

Just a little strip of Wonka's Magic Chewing Gum, and that is all you will ever need at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

talk about some of the policy wonky things we talk about here but it talks about the relation of broadband to all

Or if you're looking like a policy wonk like I am at the data, would you say well, policing and welfare services have just gotten cheaper.

I've been accused sometimes of being a wonk on surveillance issues.

In 2009 Ezra joined "The Washington Post," where he managed the "wonk" blog, being a policy

We liked that its relationship to timing was so wonky.

reads on the album as a kind of weirdness or wonkiness.

Sometimes dumb, sometimes wonky, sideways.

And then you have ones that are a little more wonky, a little more like-- chef's getting a little kooky over here,

I'm sure you remember this gal from Willy Wonka day.

Now, is my only wonky slide, so forgive me.

not in yet another dry and impenetrable and wonky climate report, but in a way that we hope is really accessible and instructive and maybe

And I think we've got the modern-day Willy Wonka with us today.

And so I thought-- I took from him that Willy Wonka should, actually, at the end of the day, be a human being,

So the set has to be phenomenal because it is Willy Wonka.

And I was deeply concerned that was way too wonky.

Do I go by a bunch of academics and policy wonks, and they all disagree at the end.

You can go to Picasa and get some but it looks wonky and it doesn't look good.

So I wondered, putting on my policy wonk cap, what would a policy look like?

And it was all-- it relied on a concept known by policy wonks

Because we literally do scenes from-- the show sort of morphs into scenes from Willy Wonka, Star Wars, what are some of the others?

totally. So you really are Willy Wonka.

Yeah. She's totally Willy Wonka.

There's a banner that says that "gloriously demented Christian Borle as Willy Wonka." What did you think about that?