Word: stupid
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...marked fondness for first-person pronouns. In public appearances, however, he can exhibit flashes of deep humility. A crowd of miners in Jastrzebie last October asked Walesa who could teach them democracy. His answer: "Who? Not Lesio [a diminutive of Lech], for he is too small, too stupid. Yourselves. Everybody." Yet he can be remarkably highhanded when chairing union meetings, often interrupting speakers in mid-sentence and imposing his own views...
...also a student at the Liverpool College of Art while the Quarrymen were still gigging around. "I knew John would always be a bohemian," Aunt Mimi recalled. "But I wanted him to have some sort of job. Here he was nearly 21 years old, touting round stupid halls for ?3 a night. Where was the point in that...
...fire for 150 people. He talks wistfully about the "great deal of unnecessary cruelty," the "widespread violence," about people whose hands were tied behind their backs and, like dogs, were forced to eat steamed bread from the floor-or eat nothing at all. "The Red Guards did many stupid things," he recalls. "Somebody hit me and did something very silly..." Again, the sentence is left unfinished...
Finally the boys decided they had outfoxed the silicon chips. "I got you, you stupid chicken," one sang. But, by means fair or foul, the bird went into its victory dance anyway. "Motherfucking chicken," one kid muttered as he stalked away.CrimsonAnthea Letsou...
Robots sometimes seem remarkably stupid to the engineers trying to educate them. A robot can cope with complex mathematical formulas, of course, but when it sees something through its TV camera, it has a hard time translating the two-dimensional image into three-dimensional reality. A robot instructed to look for a triangular object will waste valuable time fingering cubes and cylinders before