Agree with Iain Coleman that "wide boy" is more than just a re-badged spiv, there's an element of chav/townie there too.
Oddly enough, the UK's premier Socialist Worker blog, Lenin's Tomb mentions the phrase in a discussion of the Hitchens/Galloway kerfuffle. OK, so that doesn't actually answer your question, but I believe a wide boy is a bit of a chancer, a ruffian on the make, a used-car salesman, etc.
If you're going to read Weber, then the sister essay/lecture "Science as a Vocation" is also well worth a look, although one thing to bear in mind is that wissenschaft has a broader sense than just "natural science".
Heck, even I'm doing a quick risk assessment in my head and I live in Britain (mild climate, one, yes one, poisonous animal, no earthquakes, no volcanoes, no large river systems, etc). I'm reckoning that my city (at least the centre of it) could be a goner via the tsunami/storm surge route given that it's low-lying and sits at the end of a nicely funnelly bit of coastline.
I'm guessing that what applies to pots also applies to books.
PNH: no pimping that moratorium via spam then!
Serge: It ran at the end of last year on Channel Four in the UK, there's supposedly a DVD coming out at some point. My favourite quote from the show: "She was like a candle in the wind. Unreliable!"
Serge: I don't know if Garth Marenghi would be your cup of tea then. The TV series was awesome.
There's the case of the mascot of Swansea Town football ("soccer") team being investigated for assaulting a fellow mascot before a mascot race. "Cyril" even considered a career in politics.
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