{"id":15480,"date":"2021-03-18T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=15480"},"modified":"2021-03-18T20:22:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T03:22:01","slug":"2021-03-18-stupid-versus-clueless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/?p=15480","title":{"rendered":"2021-03-18 Stupid Versus Clueless"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ooooh! Them are fightin’ words!<\/p>\n

I used to say that too, back when this same meme was a favorite on the Usenet newsgroups, the 1990s forerunner of Facebutt. But it got a lot of people riled up because we called them stupid.<\/p>\n

Well, the geeks and nerds came with “haven’t got a clue.” That sounded a bit better, but it just didn’t have the IMPACT! of stupid. Someone came up with a term with more impact. So “need to be beat over the head with a clue by four” came into use. It seemed to have a more forceful meaning.<\/p>\n

But there was always someone who didn’t know the difference between a two by four and a clue by four. Thus we had to explain all that, so a lot of us geeks gave up and just called them ignorant rather than stupid. It just means they don’t know.<\/p>\n

So today I just recommend calling some clueless person ignorant. Hey, we were born that way. Just remember:<\/p>\n

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Ooooh! Them are fightin’ words! I used to say that too, back when this same meme was a favorite on the Usenet newsgroups, the 1990s forerunner of Facebutt. But it got a lot of people riled up because we called them stupid. Well, the geeks and nerds came with “haven’t got a clue.” That sounded <\/p>\n

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