>who are these "some" people?

evidently our interrogator and Paul Dickson are two; Dickson is the author of several books on words and such, of which "Dickson's Word Treasury : A Connoisseur's Collection of Old and New, Weird and Wonderful, Useful and Outlandish Words" is the one wherein he suggests 'tarassis'. I gather that you would construe this word to fall into the latter-most category....

Dickson has also written several humor anthologies, some of which include collections of shaggy dog stories.