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> This reminds me of something else that helps. Nobody likes idiots, and most of us don't like calling people idiots, but it would be hard to dispute that the presence of idiots has often stimulated great conversations in the past.
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> Thus, I contend that we need to find more ways to attract idiots. I don't expect that we could reasonably keep them, which makes it even more important that we keep luring new ones in on a regular basis. We could be the Venus Fly Trap of forums, or something.
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> Don "I never know if I'm really being serious or not" Monkey

I know something about idiots, and I'm surprise that you think nobody likes us. The main function of idiots is to make other people look smart and I think we do an excellent job of it. How would you ever know that your were smart if you didn't have idiots to compare yourself to? When it comes to building self esteem, nothing works like hanging around with idiots.

And did you know there are degrees of idiot? First degree idiots are the blithering kind and the happy idiots who don't know and don't care Then you have the crack-pot idiots. Most of the crack pots are know-it- alls who don't know any of it. Third degree idiots are the educated fools who know everything about one subject and nothing about anything else.

Personally, I am a second degree crack pot, but I am studying to become a third degree. My "know-everything" subject is "first degree idiots," in case you were wondering how an idiot could know all of this stuff.
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