An individual with few redeeming characteristics. Stems from the fact that spheres appear exactly the same when viewed from any perspective. The phrase is commonly attributed to astronomer Fritz Zwicky.
Scooby's a spherical bastard, since no matter how you look at him, he's still a bastard.
History: Often attributed to the eccentric Swiss Astronomer Fritz Zwicky, who used to refer to fellow astronomers at the Mt. Wilson Observatory as Spherical Bastards. "Because", in his words, "they were bastards, when looked at from any side".
A complete asshole. An utter waste of chromosomes. Spherical because a complete asshole has no redeeming features whatsoever and is still an asshole no matter which way you look at him/her, just as a sphere presents the same circular outline no matter which direction it is viewed from.
He may have been a junkie for ten years and trashed all his friends, but even when he's gone cold turkey don't expect him to say sorry. He's a spherical asshole.
History: Often attributed to the eccentric Swiss Astronomer Fritz Zwicky, who used it to refer to fellow astronomers at the Mt. Wilson Observatory as Spherical Bastards. "Because", in his words, "they were bastards, when looked at from any side".
Your bastardness is as as the planets you flap about, spherical. You're a spherical bastard.