Word: cluelessness
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...stereotypes are only exacerbated by the stereotypes of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Some females remain skeptical even when Carson and the gang serve up a demitasse of glam and style for the clueless, beer-gutted straight male; it’s all good on television, but when their boyfriends and male friends start hogging the mirror, reality TV hits home. “I have this one guy friend who looks in the mirror more than anyone I know,” says Long. “Sometimes I wonder if he is doing it to overcompensate...
...don’t think any of my colleagues have any clue what’s going on,” says Professor Richard G. Heck. “There’s been some faculty presentations but not a lot. I think people are pretty clueless...
...Sweet] gave me a water bottle and I poured a little water on her head. She was so clueless. It literally took forever. The entire bus was laughing our faces off. Finally I think I dropped the water bottle and she realized where the hits were coming from. It was entertaining...
...offer inconsistent theories to explain the obvious. Lawyers for the Rigas family, which performed the remarkable feat of bankrupting a cable company, say their clients can't be guilty of a conspiracy to loot the company because they are too dimwitted: one is "not the savviest guy," another is "clueless." Martha Stewart's defense, by contrast, was in part that she is too clever to have done anything as dumb as conspiring to break the securities laws...
Champollion and Fischer were lucky: they were heroes in their time. Deprived of the spotlight, genius can grow up twisted and strange. David Hahn was the child of divorced, clueless parents living in a David Lynch--perfect Michigan suburb in the mid-1990s. A loner and a compulsive tinkerer, Hahn somehow got it into his head in high school to build a nuclear reactor in his mom's potting shed, and damn if he didn't come close. In The Radioactive Boy Scout (Random House; 209 pages), Ken Silverstein describes how Hahn extracted radioactive elements from household objects--americium from...