# Everyone is so goddamn smart.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 29, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771 "2011-07-29T20:39:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/1 "2011-07-29T20:39:15Z")

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Well, we’ll go out to Miller’s Crossing…

…and we’ll see who’s smart.

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**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/2 "2011-07-29T20:59:55Z")

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“How’d you get the fat lip?”

“Old war wound. It acts up around morons.”

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/3 "2011-07-29T21:34:40Z")

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Jesus, I open my mouth, the whole world turns smart.

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/4 "2011-07-29T22:25:33Z")

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What is this, the high hat?

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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/5 "2011-07-29T23:26:18Z")

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Look in your heart!

(the second time)

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**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/6 "2011-07-29T23:33:38Z")

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I don’t want to die out here like a filthy animal!

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**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/7 "2011-07-30T02:50:57Z")

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“You take a page out of this guy’s book! A little less you talk; a little more you think!”

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**Author:** ![Rattlehead02](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rattlehead02/32/3944_2.png) [@Rattlehead02](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rattlehead02)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/8 "2011-07-30T16:22:26Z")

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What’s the rumpus?

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/9 "2011-07-30T16:47:06Z")

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If you want me to keep my mouth shut, it’s gonna cost you some dough. I figure a thousand bucks is reasonable, so I want two.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/10 "2011-07-30T20:55:03Z")

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You’se fancy pants’, all of you.

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/11 "2011-07-30T21:00:10Z")

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'cause ethically, he’s kinda shaky.

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**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/12 "2011-07-30T21:06:08Z")

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Let’s see where the twist flops.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/13 "2011-07-30T21:57:45Z")

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You understand that if we don’t find a stiff out here, we leave a fresh one.

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**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2011, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/14 "2011-07-30T23:27:41Z")

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I’d worry a lot less if I thought you were worrying enough.

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**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/15 "2011-07-31T00:07:23Z")

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It’s getting so a businessman can’t expect no return from a fixed fight! Now, if you can’t trust a fix, what can you trust?

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**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/16 "2011-07-31T03:05:42Z")

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Because if you told me and I killed you and you were lying, I wouldn’t get to kill you then.

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**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/17 "2011-07-31T03:09:22Z")

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I’m talkin’ about friendship. I’m talkin’ about character. I’m talkin’ about - hell. Leo, I ain’t embarrassed to use the word - I’m talkin’ about ethics.  
mmm

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**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/18 "2011-07-31T03:28:38Z")

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You ain’t got a license to kill bookies and today I ain’t sellin’. So take your flunky and dangle.

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**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/19 "2011-07-31T03:31:06Z")

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You ain’t got a license to kill bookies and today I ain’t sellin’ any. So take your flunky and dangle.

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**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everyone-is-so-goddamn-smart/590771/20 "2011-07-31T03:32:07Z")

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Blast!

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