Asp
From Plastic Tub
asp n. 1. A donkey or mule; an ass. 2. A sneak. 3. A tempter. 4. A venomous snake.
Extrapolation
"Beauty -- An Asp!"
"My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?"
- -- Letter from Galileo Galilei to Johannes Kepler.