text:  Or is it? Goober number, and by the way, you know I use the term goober, and that's a term of endearment. It was funny last night because as I was talking to the New York cop, I used the term goober, and the New Yorker didn't know what a goober was. And I had to explain that goober is, you know, when I was growing up, a goober was a derogatory term.