Was posting on the newsgroups under my alter ego / sock puppet and we got into a side track of how simple minded some (many? most?) people are. At times I dispair for the future of mankind. Which is when I dredge up the following memory:
A Math Counts competition a couple of years ago. I take youngest daughter, am dropping her off in the hall where they will be competing. We meet up with the other three members of her team, all boys:
Me (to daughter): Are you with these idiots?
delivered with no pause between speakers:
Boy#1: We're not Idiots!
Boy#2: Yes we are!
Boy#3: (giving me The Eye) How do you know we're Idiots?
Me: You're male.
short pause to think about this...
Boy#3: So are you.
Me: Right.
Boy #3: OK.
I did not insult the boys by calling them idiots as I included myself with them. They figured it out in zero time. If you know you are an idiot you are not one.
The idiots on the newgroups are real idiots -- they do not know that they are.
Posted by at August 14, 2003 03:46 PM