Word: stupidity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thayer is embroiled in a stupid, fun rivalry with nearby Holworthy Hall. Legend has it that the dispute originated when Holworthy was built on Thayer's polo ground, or vice versa, depending on who you ask. The rivalry usually surfaces in "Holworthy Sucks!"-"Thayer Swallows!" shouting bouts. At times, the conflict escalates to more serious warfare involving water fights and hostages...
...Well, Harvard is her alma mater and it is a prestigious university of course. Any candidate who doesn't accept a speech offer from Harvard must be stupid or a graduate from Yale...
...Stupidity is one of my favorite subjects. "It is always amazing," Jean Cocteau wrote, "no matter how often one encounters it." Like sleep, stupidity is a universal, surreal and mysterious phenomenon, a brownout, the mind passing through a tunnel. Sometimes stupidity is hilarious; most of the world's jokes are told by one ethnic group about the stupidity of another ethnic group. In its sinister forms, stupidity turns up as evil's incompetent half brother--evil without supernatural prestige. The "Evil Empire" was, in a more practical sense, the stupid empire; systemic stupidity, not evil or good, brought the Soviet...
...women did.) But for the most part, The Man Show, like its FX counterpart, is less offensive for its sexism--most of which is just silly--than for its comic unoriginality. After all, Howard Stern has been getting strippers and porn stars to say and do outrageously stupid things for years...
...Donnell stated, pouncing on Selleck, the former Magnum PI star, who recently appeared in an ad for the National Rifle Association. "You can't say, 'I will not take responsibility for anything the N.R.A. represents' if you're doing an ad," O'Donnell lectured. "I think you're being stupid," a slumped and sullen Selleck replied at one point. "You're questioning my humanity...