By his own admission, it was a bold, brash and possibly stupid move for someone who barely knew the difference between a spitball and a spitwad.

Meanwhile, Schiff has been hitting big league pitching in Washington for years, including nasty spitballs hurled by Donald Trumpov, who loves to throw beanballs at opponents’ heads.

Official statistics are hard to come by, but Markstein spitballs the percentage of hourly workers in Mammoth Lakes who are living in cars and vans as “less than 50 but more than 20.”

At a certain point, HBO suggested to bring someone just to spitball the final draft of the series.

What they’ve done, figuratively, is throw a spitball at the teacher and put their heads down before he can turn around.