You all are forgetting here in the Beanie Baby Ivory Tower that the intellectual level can be kinda low out there in 3D....
I did hear that the number of viewers of Springer, Montel, Ricki Lake, even Oprah, are dropping. Surely that's a good sign? Or maybe it means that attention spans have dropped too far even for their feeble offerings.
Today I watched a rerun of Win, Lose, or Draw which I do while I "tread". There was this beautiful actress on. She got up to draw-- the words were "Davy Crockett".
She drew a bug and then kept jumping up and down and pointing at it.
Bert Convy keeps trying to show her the word again.
"I know it, I know it!" she screamed and drew another bug.
When the time was up, she said in disgust, "It was a cricket." Like they were really stupid.
Davy Cricket?
Her teammates just stared at her.
Well, so she got confused, I thought. Maybe she's not really that dumb. So the second time she gets up, she gets Baked Alaska.
She draws the US. They guess that after a while, once she figures out how to put the Florida foot on it. Then she puts a sort of pancake on top.
WHat?
She keeps pointing at it and jumping up and down.
Baked Canada? Baked Minnesota?
But she was very beautiful.
I guess I am just thinking that this discussion about dialectics and Plato and critical thinking is funny when people think Alaska sits like a beret on the Great Lakes, and Davy Crockett was a bug.
Maybe you need to set the bar a little lower first? |
