Thank you to Dawn Summers for inspiring this one...
I'm pleased to announce a new feature here, which is clearly inspired by Mensan Apprentice candidate Tarek, and which Ms. Summers inadvertently named when she did her Apprentice Blogging tonight. In this feature, titled "Guess Who's Not in Mensa," you submit your selections to recognize achievement in the field of stupidity.
Nominees can include typographical or grammatical errors, unfiltered speech, tactlessness, traffic violations and even self-nomination for incidents such as "Tripping Over Sidewalk Flaw That Isn't There" or "Changing Lightbulb While Barefoot, Then Dropping Said Lightbulb, Which Smashes to Smithereens, and Oh Yeah , You're Barefoot." (That last one was the one that kept me out of Mensa.) And of course, celebrities are fair game.
Now go...I'll start you off with our first two nominees.
The first nominee is Mensa...for creating a profile of their ideal member that rivals JDate as a soporific.
And second nominee has to be VP Dick Cheney...for shooting his friend in the face.
I nominate Dick Cheney's friend for getting shot in the face.
Posted by: dawn summers | February 28, 2006 at 10:16 AM
I nominate Dubya. Googling “George W. Bush” and “stupidity” gave me 4 million hits, give or take. I apologize to any staunch Republicans reading My Urban Kvetch if you’re offended. On the other hand, if you’re a staunch republican, you probably won’t get them anyway. Simcha
"Wow! Brazil is big." —George W. Bush, after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005
"I own a timber company? That's news to me. Need some wood?" –- during the second presidential debate, failing to realize that he qualified as a small business owner on his 2001 federal tax return because of his part ownership of a timber company.
"You may have noticed I have a few flaws, too. People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it." --during his Republican Convention speech.
“America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”
“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.”
"I've coined new words, like, misunderstanding and Hispanically."—Radio-Television Correspondents Association dinner, Washington, D.C., March 29, 2001
"If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!" George W. Bush, Bellevue Community College, Nov. 2, 2000
Posted by: Simcha | February 28, 2006 at 12:05 PM
simcha GW has publically bragged about all the C's he got at Yale. I guess that makes his mensa eligibility moot, as far back as 1969!
Posted by: Some Loser | March 01, 2006 at 05:28 PM
Who needs Mensa when you're Kate Moss?:
“It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.”
"A video? What video? F*** off, I don't want to know." "F*** off, f*** off, f*** off, f*** off! Just f*** off!"
Posted by: judi | March 01, 2006 at 08:40 PM
There are so many stupid things that I've done, which one to pick... which one?
Oh yah, how about this: after being told "Thanks, but no thanks." by a woman I was very much in love with, I drank every drop of alcohol I had in my apartment and then sent her an email.
Posted by: Coelecanth | March 02, 2006 at 09:45 AM
The entire cast, crew, and production team of 7th Heaven.
Posted by: Lilit | March 02, 2006 at 07:11 PM