Really?

var thisThing;
var theOtherThing;
var oneMoreThing;

As code gets more complex, the naming is more and more important... var theFifteenthThingy;

totes. which is why i think it's not that hard to take 15 seconds to think about potential collisions and be explicit up front. :)

Derek, maybe you are just better at this than everyone else. :)

haha. duh.