Word: dumbness
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...annual west of England Fat Stock and Poultry Exhibition in the fall of 1906, a British scientist named Francis Galton became interested in a weight-judging competition: 800 fairgoers (a diverse group that included butchers, farmers, clerks, housewives, townspeople, smart people, dumb people, average people) tried to guess what a particular ox would weigh after having been slaughtered and dressed. The correct answer was exactly 1,198 lbs. After the judges awarded their prize, Galton borrowed all the entry tickets, did some arithmetic to get the mean of the fairgoers' guesses and found that their collective estimate...
...only way we can lose is if we're lazy or dumb and we don't do what we're supposed to do." BILL CLINTON, at a fund raiser in Harlem, encouraging attendees to support Senator John Kerry's bid for the presidency...
...necessary to itemize every receipt, including those for coffee from a year ago, in an alphabetized filing system), discussing the social ramifications of “Newlyweds” with roommates in a highly animated and engaged way for hours on end (is Jessica Simpson just playing dumb?), taking delight in Brain Break as the unabashed highlight of an otherwise frustrating night staring at a blank screen and a blinking cursor (who knew PB&J on stale white bread could taste so good, or sustain interest for so long...
...Cedric the Entertainer is the patriarch of an adorably wacky family—which features the no longer lil’ Bow Wow—traveling cross-country for a family reunion. Watch as the antics get more and more clichéd, but enjoy the random bursts of dumb fun, like the hot tub antics with two obese white women and the legitimately humorous guest appearance of frequent Cedric collaborator Steve Harvey as Cedric’s brother...
...from churning out asteroid-themed blockbusters. “I went and watched Deep Impact, but I didn’t watch Armageddon,” said Spahr. “For Armageddon, I helped them do a promo, and we tried to tell them that it was pretty dumb. A Texas-sized asteroid was going to hit in what, two weeks? That would be as bright as Jupiter in the sky. You would go outside and go, ‘Oh crap, an asteroid...