A letter filed away in the Smithsonian Archives (in a folder of Ham-based correspondence), summed up the public mood: "By treating his body like that of a stupid beast, people will continue thinking of apes as stupid beasts, and not the intelligent, almost human animals they really are," wrote a sophomore at West High School in Painted Post, New York.
"The lion looks at him, like, 'What are you, stupid?' " Then the beast roared and chased the man out of the cage.
Why be a captive of that stupid and volatile beast nicknamed the Big Board?
Only reindeer are always caricatured as drunken, stupid and quarrelsome beasts of burden.
"Neanderthal" conjures an image of a stupid, slouching, hairy beast-man, even though scientists have moved well beyond that concept in their understanding of Neanderthal culture.
For all the talk of top 10 lists and stupid tricks perpetrated by both beast and man, the element that kept David Letterman going over all these years is his people touch.
Anyone who has owned either type of animal knows that these beasts are not stupid; they are evil masters of manipulation — cats with their haughty indifference, dogs with their unrestrained enthusiasm.
Any encounter with the stupid behavior of fellow drivers releases the inner beast in me.
"People might say it was a stupid thing to do but when you see a beautiful beast struggling to survive up close and personal you somehow tend to respect it and want to help it," he said, per Wales Online.
In Part 5 of the Discourse on the Method, for instance, Descartes identifies the ability to use language as one of two features distinguishing people from "machines" or "beasts" and speculates that even the stupidest people can learn a language (when not even the smartest beast can do so) because human beings have a "rational soul" and beasts "have no intelligence at all".
Anyway, shortly after Sarah Palin went WARBONKERS on a blogger you never heard of, the entire internet responded in an even more vapid and juvenile fashion, and now there are stupid Photoshops everywhere, thanks to Sarah Palin, because that is what happens when you feed the beast with your stupid anger, instead of calmly letting some stuff slide and depriving the beast of oxygen.
