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Pastimes : The Stupid Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayne Rumball who wrote (41)	9/18/1998 3:11:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 249

You don't have much choice about passing beer. Once you drink it it's passing.

To: Wayne Rumball who wrote (41)	9/18/1998 3:12:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 249

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913] stupid \Stu"pid\, a. [L. stupidus, fr. stupere to be stupefied: cf. F. stupide.] 1. Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons. O that men . . . should be so stupid grown . . . As to forsake the living God! --Milton. With wild surprise, A moment stupid, motionless he stood. --Thomson. 2. Resulting from, or evincing, stupidity; formed without skill or genius; dull; heavy; -- said of things. Observe what loads of stupid rhymes Oppress us in corrupted times. --Swift. Syn: Simple; insensible; sluggish; senseless; doltish; sottish; dull; heavy; clodpated. -- Stu"pidly, adv. -- Stu"pidness, n. Source: WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn] stupid adj 1: lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity [ant: smart] 2: in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock; "he had a dazed expression on his face"; "lay semiconscious, stunned (or stupefied) by the blow"; "was stupid from fatigue" [syn: dazed, stunned, stupefied, stupid(p)] 3: without much intelligence; "a dull job with lazy and unintelligent co-workers" [syn: unintelligent] [ant: intelligent] n : a person who is not very bright: "The economy, stupid!" [syn: stupid person, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish]