Er, yes, that's the title of an acidic little post I found on an in -laws fb page recently. It wouldn't be so bad if its intention had been humorous, but I sensed a mis-calculated intention to portray an elitist image to anyone reading. It was basically a nasty side swipe at those who had not had the same education as he had. Had someone else posted this I may well have laughed though.
There were 10 no doubt very funny jokes, and if I had studied the people or philosophies that made up the jokes ingredients, then I would have by all accounts been laughing, but I haven't. However I had a good stab at working out maybe what these ideas or theories were that made the jokes funny, by trying to figure out what was " missing " due to my educational short comings. A kind of mental algebra I guess. By doing this I think I got the jist of a few of them.
Just like a person I read about recently who turned their hand very successfully to a job of which they had no previous training, I used my intuition. This is a true sign of intelligence. It requires imagination and thinking outside the box. A stale rigid mindset using only what has previously been learnt is of absolutely no use here. A rigid mind set full of pigeon holes would have been of very little use here. You can only judge someones intellect if you can watch how they face a task that they have never experienced, or one outside their usual comfort zone. This is not something I expect the man who posted this collection of jokes would have understood either, funnily enough !
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