{"id":14066,"date":"2025-12-19T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=14066"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:09:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:09:24","slug":"how-to-politely-tell-someone-you-think-theyre-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/14066","title":{"rendered":"How To Politely Tell Someone You Think They&#8217;re Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foghorn Leghorn often said it best&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>That girl is about as sharp as a sack of wet mice<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That boy is about as sharp as a bowling ball<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I say, that boy is playing with a full deck alright, he&#8217;s just really slow at shuffling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Boy, I say, boy, you are as useless as a back pocket on a T-shirt!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But Walter Olson on Facebook posted a few international ones I&#8217;m going to add to my collection.<\/p>\n<p>Venezuela: <em>Intelligence is chasing them, but they are faster.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Swedish: <em>The wheel is spinning but the hamster is dead.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also Swedish: <em>Missing a straw for the broom.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Korian: <em>Is your head a decoration?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And then this from LBJ: <em>He couldn&#8217;t pour piss out of a boot with instructions on the heel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foghorn Leghorn often said it best&#8230; That girl is about as sharp as a sack of wet mice That boy is about as sharp as a bowling ball I say, that boy is playing with a full deck alright, he&#8217;s just really slow at shuffling. Boy, I say, boy, you are as useless as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-14066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-schrodingers-bag-o-laughs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14067,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14066\/revisions\/14067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}