Comments on: Intelligence as Curse http://www.microkhan.com/2009/10/20/intelligence-as-curse/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=intelligence-as-curse Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:38:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Brendan I. Koerner http://www.microkhan.com/2009/10/20/intelligence-as-curse/comment-page-1/#comment-3744 Brendan I. Koerner Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:30:47 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=3035#comment-3744 @tsg: I actually get that one. Not especially funny, but it's somehow comforting to know that women have been disclaiming scatological responsibility since time immemorial. @Jordan: It is worth noting that Harris did manage a longer-than-average career, at least for an offensive lineman, so he probably has millions in the bank. The knock on him is that he never justified the high draft choice spent on him--he was a first round pick. I would be curious as to whether he's trying to get back into the league, or just rolling around in piles of money while reading Wittgenstein and listening to Brahms. @tsg: I actually get that one. Not especially funny, but it’s somehow comforting to know that women have been disclaiming scatological responsibility since time immemorial.

@Jordan: It is worth noting that Harris did manage a longer-than-average career, at least for an offensive lineman, so he probably has millions in the bank. The knock on him is that he never justified the high draft choice spent on him–he was a first round pick.

I would be curious as to whether he’s trying to get back into the league, or just rolling around in piles of money while reading Wittgenstein and listening to Brahms.

]]> By: Jordan http://www.microkhan.com/2009/10/20/intelligence-as-curse/comment-page-1/#comment-3743 Jordan Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:55:05 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=3035#comment-3743 On the other hand, he presumably got his degree paid for by a football scholarship, so it's not like he won't get anything out of the deal. Maybe there's football analysis in his future? That would seem like a fairly logical place to go. But then having a degree in hand an a lack of crippling injuries leaves him in a much better place than a lot of ex-football players. On the other hand, he presumably got his degree paid for by a football scholarship, so it’s not like he won’t get anything out of the deal. Maybe there’s football analysis in his future? That would seem like a fairly logical place to go. But then having a degree in hand an a lack of crippling injuries leaves him in a much better place than a lot of ex-football players.

]]> By: tsg http://www.microkhan.com/2009/10/20/intelligence-as-curse/comment-page-1/#comment-3742 tsg Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:28:12 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=3035#comment-3742 @B.I.K: A quick use of the google turned up this: "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial - a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap." (http://www.newslite.tv/2008/08/01/the-worlds-oldest-fart-joke-an.html) Oldest joke on record just so happens to be a fart joke! Sadly, the humor of this one is lost in translation for me. @B.I.K: A quick use of the google turned up this:
“Something which has never occurred since time immemorial – a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.”

(http://www.newslite.tv/2008/08/01/the-worlds-oldest-fart-joke-an.html)

Oldest joke on record just so happens to be a fart joke! Sadly, the humor of this one is lost in translation for me.

]]> By: Brendan I. Koerner http://www.microkhan.com/2009/10/20/intelligence-as-curse/comment-page-1/#comment-3741 Brendan I. Koerner Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:35:16 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=3035#comment-3741 @tsg: I do recall the fantastic giddiness of first encountering the fart scene in "The Canterbury Tales." If Chaucer could do it, why not his Greek predecessors? @tsg: I do recall the fantastic giddiness of first encountering the fart scene in “The Canterbury Tales.” If Chaucer could do it, why not his Greek predecessors?

]]> By: tsg http://www.microkhan.com/2009/10/20/intelligence-as-curse/comment-page-1/#comment-3740 tsg Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:09:56 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=3035#comment-3740 I'm hardly qualified to comment, but I seem to recall quite a bit of crude sexual humor in "Lysistrata." I don't think it's much of a stretch to assume that Aristophanes wasn't above cracking fart jokes now and then too. I’m hardly qualified to comment, but I seem to recall quite a bit of crude sexual humor in “Lysistrata.” I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to assume that Aristophanes wasn’t above cracking fart jokes now and then too.

]]> By: Gramsci http://www.microkhan.com/2009/10/20/intelligence-as-curse/comment-page-1/#comment-3737 Gramsci Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:32:55 +0000 http://www.microkhan.com/?p=3035#comment-3737 It got pretty embarrassing when Harris kept calling the weakside linebacker "Schopenhauer" instead of just Will. It got pretty embarrassing when Harris kept calling the weakside linebacker “Schopenhauer” instead of just Will.

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