The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Doofus Of The Day #558
Received via e-mail, reportedly found in a newspaper in Scotland:
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you a quintessential Doofus!
News reports out of what was formerly “Great” Britain indicate that this is pretty much par for their course nowadays.
Unfortunately, the “primo” members of our educational establishment are themselves the beneficiaries of a dumbed-down curriculum, and thus, probably unable to learn anything from this example.
My Scots ancestors must be rolling in their tombs and barrows . . .
Damn, I mean, damn.
ReplyDelete"Quintessential doofus?" Or just satire?
ReplyDelete(I really hope it's the latter...)
--Wes S.
The worst part is:
ReplyDeleteThey walk among us!!!!!
I am reminded of a discussion I had about idiot-proofing anything.
ReplyDeleteWe agreed that the problem is that we always underestimate both the cleverness they can apply to the problem.
Sorry. The last sentence should have said that we underestimate both the number of idiots, and the cleverness they can bring to the issue.
ReplyDeleteNews reports out of what was formerly “Great” Britain indicate that this is pretty much par for their course nowadays.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, the “primo” members of our educational establishment are themselves the beneficiaries of a dumbed-down curriculum, and thus, probably unable to learn anything from this example.
My Scots ancestors must be rolling in their tombs and barrows . . .