[C7.] The Male-as-a-Moron Ad Strategy More advertisers are portraying men as incompetent, bumbling idiots.
6. "Obviously... .. Translation: "If it's not obvious to you, like it is to me, then you must be a moron". As with many of these phrases, this is doesn't need an alternative so much as it can simply be left out.
Arnie's back, and he's just as much of a moron as ever.
A truly ancient film producer I used to know liked to say that a protagonist is allowed one uncharacteristically stupid mistake without the audience's labeling him a moron — as when Cary Grant flees the United Nations at the beginning of "North by Northwest".
Sadly, the shell game of The Trump Show succeeded in preventing Hillary from showing the danger of electing a Moron as President.
If you can't escape those, you will end up looking like a moron as you blindly throw punches or kicks, then pass out.
Even by her doctors' coldblooded calculus, Ms. Buck was only a "middle grade moron". As medieval as that sounds, it was a genuine taxonomic distinction developed by the psychologist Henry Goddard, whose pyramid of feeblemindedness featured "idiots" at the bottom, "imbeciles" in the middle and higher-functioning "morons" at the top.
In the opening moments of Survivor this week, we heard Russell again described by Rob as "the hobbit on crack," (Rob also described Tyson the Mormon Moron as having been "as dumb as a bag of rocks," although I think this was unnecessarily insulting to bags of rocks.
I eventually mingled with a band of Texans outside Big Ben, who were asking their guide, "So which Prince is the moron?" As we chortled together, all I could think was: Poor Andrew.
So do I have it in for Piers Moron (as Private Eye calls him)?
