I like knuckle-ear.

Knuckle-ear reactors

Knuckle-ear bombs

Knuckle-ear physicist

Knuckle-ear power



I'm gonna write President Bush a letter and request that he start using "knuckle-ear" ASAP. I think it'll catch on. Thanks, milum, for coining a great word that gets at the both the drift of this thread and the drift of this thread.