The lurching, hesitant line-breaks are pure henchman, like he's trying to force a song into a box because those are his dumb orders.
You do not need to "play dumb" in order to have a good interaction with a man.
Certain acts -- for starters, shopping, sex, leaving work early to see a dumb movie, ordering mashed potatoes -- are most enjoyable when not premeditated or endorsed by anyone else, when you can believe that the only economy you're affecting is yours and when neither the mayor nor the president is involved.
Earlier this month, a report into the claims of dumbing down ordered by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) found that although there were some "areas of concern", there was no evidence of systemic failure in quality and standards in English universities.
And perhaps most crucially, results are no longer listed in dumb reverse chronological order but actually rise to the top based on their relevance to your query (Yahoo's relevance model, however, has indeed been tuned to highlight our freshest content about particular subjects, such as the iPhone or Facebook).
"Perhaps if I'd behaved like that a little more I wouldn't be 45 and single – but I just can't bring myself to dumb down in order to attract a mate, and have no respect for those who do".
He predicts a "dumbing down" in order to get bums on seats, warning that the diet must include more than proven hits.
There are plenty of comedians willing to dumb themselves down in order to win audience approval, but that's not a game Jessica Fostekew is prepared to play.
But for a Supreme Court justice to have to play the popularity game — to need, particularly, to dumb herself down in order to try to take her place among our country's most powerful legal minds — is rather new, and striking.
WP uses live tiles rather than icons – the flat design and the emphasis on information being displayed on those tiles is quite different to the home screen of any other platform where dumb icons are the order of the day.
