# Ok, as no one wants to pit the Bush girls.. (lame, help improve it)

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [September 2, 2004, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710 "2004-09-02T03:17:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/61 "2004-09-03T03:13:26Z")

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> [@elucidator](#):
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> Who’s gonna tell you?

Well, seeing as how I find Monty Python hysterical, I think I can figure it out on my own.

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/62 "2004-09-03T03:20:06Z")

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> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> …I think I can figure it out on my own.

[Iceman]

I heard that about you. You like to work alone.

[/Iceman]

Sorry, I just watched _Top Gun_ and couldn’t help myself. Watch, I’ll put a smilie here so you know I’m kidding. 😉

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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2004, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-as-no-one-wants-to-pit-the-bush-girls-lame-help-improve-it/262710/63 "2004-09-03T11:15:05Z")

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> [@MaxTheVool](#):
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> ummm… it sounds like you’re giving Gargoyle’s grandmother more credit for subtlety of distinction than there’s any evidence she deserves.
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> Saying “I don’t automatically trust people just because they’re educated” is one thing. Saying “I don’t trust those over-educated people” is another. And “college is too much education” is just flat out preposterous.
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> I’m sure there’s an interesting and valid point to be made in there somewhere, something along the lines of “some people who have gone to college feel that their education means they know everything about everything, and they are obnoxious know-it-alls, even when discussing topics about which they are shockingly ignorant”. But Gargoyle’s grandmother did not say anything like that.
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> (Oh, and “Some of the least trustworthy and most despicable people in history have been highly educated”? What? Really? What an extraordinary newsflash! And here I thought that all college graduates were dipped into the Unfailing and Uncorruptable Waters of the River Righteousness upon being handed their diplomas…)

Desultory.

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