# You can't fix stupid **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265 "2013-06-18T13:22:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/1 "2013-06-18T13:22:22Z")
I saw this post from someone I don’t know. > [@](#): > > Something to make you want to smack your head: My daughter works in Mojave at the Ford Dealer. Someone she works with said it would be a good idea to remove the wind turbines so the wind would stop blowing. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/2 "2013-06-18T13:35:03Z")
My last employer used to work in renovating buildings. On one day, near the end of the project, they were laying down a new lawn. As the foreman passed by a couple of workers with a roll of grass, he shook his head and told them, “Green side up, boys, green side up.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/3 "2013-06-18T14:20:40Z")
(Waiting for someone to point out that the turbines _are_ often called ‘wind generators’.) ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/4 "2013-06-18T14:24:45Z")
Windmills do not work that way! Good night! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/5 "2013-06-18T14:27:32Z")
I still remember the lady who came to me with a document, complaining that the color copier wasn’t copying it in color. It took me some time to figure out that the document was in black and white originally, and she somehow expected that the color copier would put color into it. I asked her how was the copier expected to know what colors she wanted? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/6 "2013-06-18T14:31:41Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I still remember the lady who came to me with a document, complaining that the color copier wasn’t copying it in color. It took me some time to figure out that the document was in black and white originally, and she somehow expected that the color copier would put color into it. I asked her how was the copier expected to know what colors she wanted? Reminds me of [this.](http://lucascosti.com/blog/assets/2005/08/HowBlondesPrintWordDocuments.jpg) The real problem is filing the original. [URL=“[http://lucascosti.com/blog/assets/2005/08/HowBlondesPrintWordDocuments.jpg](http://lucascosti.com/blog/assets/2005/08/HowBlondesPrintWordDocuments.jpg)”] ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/7 "2013-06-18T15:09:51Z")
:eek: My niece is a service writer there! I’m pretty sure the bonehead comment wasn’t her, though! She’s lived in the Antelope Valley practically her whole life and knows that the wind NEVER stops blowing! ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/8 "2013-06-18T15:16:47Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > Reminds me of [this.](http://lucascosti.com/blog/assets/2005/08/HowBlondesPrintWordDocuments.jpg) > > The real problem is filing the original. > [URL=“[http://lucascosti.com/blog/assets/2005/08/HowBlondesPrintWordDocuments.jpg](http://lucascosti.com/blog/assets/2005/08/HowBlondesPrintWordDocuments.jpg)”] The thing is, I don’t think she ever really “got” it. She didn’t laugh about it or have any kind of epiphany about it. She just looked at me, puzzled and a little bit angry. I don’t think she ever figured out what I was saying, just accepted it as a part of the world. She was not a bright critter. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/9 "2013-06-18T16:55:14Z")
That reminds me of working as a computer cable salesperson. I had a customer who wanted a 10 foot cable, then proceeded to ask me if she thought that would fit in her small-ish vehicle. After puzzling out what she was asking, I told her, “We’ll coil the cable. It will fit.” She did actually laugh when I told her that - I think she was just having a blonde moment. “Green side up, boys.” Heh. Things we take for granted, like knowing which side of sod goes up, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/10 "2013-06-18T17:09:48Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > My last employer used to work in renovating buildings. On one day, near the end of the project, they were laying down a new lawn. As the foreman passed by a couple of workers with a roll of grass, he shook his head and told them, “Green side up, boys, green side up.” I’m not sure I can totally picture how this happened. I’ve seen rolls of sod; it gets rolled with the green on the inside and the brown on the outside (unless they do it differently, now). You can’t have a roll with the green side up in the same way you can’t have a roll of wrapping paper with the plain side up. Were they somehow unrolling it to put the green side down? That would be pretty hard to do. ---
**Author:** ![Stana\_Claus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stana_claus/32/13874_2.png) [@Stana\_Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stana_Claus)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/11 "2013-06-18T18:08:47Z")
It is possible to purchase a pallet of sod cut into rectangular pieces instead of rolled. The pallet is stacked with the “green side” up, but I suppose it would still be possible to mess up the installation. Always remember - anyone who thinks they have made something fool-proof has failed to account for the ingenuity of fools. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/12 "2013-06-18T18:21:04Z")
My MIL is a sweet woman but she does have her moments. Last week, Mr. Shoe asked her to pick up a pint of cream for him for a recipe he was planning to make. \*\*Stealth brag: \*\*creme brulee for my birthday. She came back and handed him a half-pint container of cream. “Mom, I need a whole pint for this recipe.” “They were all out of the pint size. The store only had the half-pint size left.” ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/13 "2013-06-18T18:25:57Z")
I clipped an editorial from the Shreveport paper several years ago, but have unfortunately lost it. In it, a woman bemoaned the fact that the extra hours of sunlight during daylight savings time was causing her lawn to go brown. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/14 "2013-06-18T18:36:06Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > I’m not sure I can totally picture how this happened. I’ve seen rolls of sod; it gets rolled with the green on the inside and the brown on the outside (unless they do it differently, now). You can’t have a roll with the green side up in the same way you can’t have a roll of wrapping paper with the plain side up. > > Were they somehow unrolling it to put the green side down? That would be pretty hard to do. I wouldn’t think about it too much: it’s an old Irish/Polish/insert-ethnicity-here joke. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/15 "2013-06-18T18:40:33Z")
My sister worked with a woman who was all excited when the first test tube baby was born. She wanted a baby, but she didn’t want to lose her figure, so growing one in a test tube was perfect!!! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/16 "2013-06-18T18:55:35Z")
From: IT Department To: Employee-All Subject: Power Outage We are currently experiencing a power outage. IT will send another email notification when the power has been restored. -IT Department ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/17 "2013-06-18T18:59:30Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > My last employer used to work in renovating buildings. On one day, near the end of the project, they were laying down a new lawn. As the foreman passed by a couple of workers with a roll of grass, he shook his head and told them, “Green side up, boys, green side up.” The technical term for this statement is:A joke ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/18 "2013-06-18T19:04:27Z")
So the cashier rang up my purchase and it came to $10.01. I handed her my bank card and she said, “do you have a penny?” ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/19 "2013-06-18T19:25:08Z")
The military supply system is all about abbreviations, acronyms, etc. I handed a so-called plumber a request slip for some job material that read “tee, red., 3/4” x 1/2". He came back from supply without them and told me “they don’t have any red tees, only gray and black ones.” The guys in the office had a good laugh, to his puzzlement, and I explained they were _reducing tees_. More laughter. His reply, after chortling along with us: “So how come they paint them red?” The place broke up. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265/20 "2013-06-18T20:14:32Z")
The wife & I were watching Branagh’s _Much Ado About Nothing._ We were about two-thirds of the way through it, and people were running around, challenging people to duels and hiding in closets and fainting and such. Wife: They sure are getting upset about things that don’t matter… Me: That’s the name of the play. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-cant-fix-stupid/661265.md?page=2)