"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
-- Jonathan Swift
"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."
-- Jonathan Swift
So, what's your day job?
John
-- And now, Mr. Cahill and Mr. Speed, would you both take these pointy hats and sit in a corner, facing the line where the walls join.
This flushes 'em out like magic.
Bret Cahill
I knew a guy once thought amongst other curious things that mp3 bit rates were *higher* than CD and gave better quality.
He was nominally the department's 'technical manager'. He had it in for me too.
Graham
Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
Jonathan Swift
must have missed the OP
-- The dunces? Indeed.
Just because you're obnoxious doesn't make you a genius. Or a tractor driver, even.
John
"A true genius never has any need to appear in a newsgroup to try to prove his genius."
-- Jonathan Slaughter
This quote is usually self-applied by fools and kooks. Those who are truly insightful are also wise enough not to apply it publicly to themselves.
Dry cleaner.
No... you are not supposed to stuff those hats there.
I'm sure he'd be good as a plow behind said tractor.
As long as it ain't the good 'ol flame war about vinyl vs CD.
It's not true anyhow. Shakespeare; Feynman; Einstein; Kovacs; Kelvin; all revered in their time.
Can anybody name a real genius who was attacked by all available dunces?
John
Immanuel Velikowski
mike
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But the dunces love him.
John
Put out the dunce shoe and the dunces fall over themselves trying to get their foot to fit.
Not that that's true or anyithing but take a gander at the OP.
All I did was post the quote w/o comment.
By your theory the dunces immediately appeared and applied it to themselves.
What would happen if they did?
Some dunce typing "LOL!"?
Only a complete idiot would give a rat's ass about a dunce typing "LOL!"
Bret Cahill
Galileo.
Bob
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Nothing like all the available dunces knew anything about him.
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