The point is that dumb works when people are worried.
"In Roswell, all my friends worked, but the only ones who worked in restaurants were the ones who were too dumb to work in service stations," he told Restaurants and Institutions in 2004.
To take one tiny example, Gertrude here tells us that Ophelia drowned herself where a willow "shows his pale leaves in the glassy stream" as if we were too dumb to work out the meaning of the original text's descriptive epithet, "hoar".
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When someone goes off script and says something dumb, campaigns work hard to get the audience back to their master narrative -- McCain as the experienced one, Obama as the change agent.
SAM KIM In describing her new work, "dumb dumb bunny," now running at the Kitchen, the choreographer Sam Kim brought up the notion of agency and how people cope with obstacles.
Striving for a perpetual flash effect in Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" (1996), he attached an $11 halogen lamp to the top of a camera -- an idea "so dumb it worked," he said.
Maybe I was just dumb, but working a car radio shouldn't require a degree in programming.
When you put two girls together, and the smarter one makes the dumber one work for it, they both leave the bar feeling like pieces of shit.
We can tip our hats to the generations of weed activists who people thought were stupid, crazy, or dumb for working on a minor league issue but have, against all odds, been successful.
