Friday, September 01, 2006

On the other foot...

Plausible definition of a modern intellectual:

Someone who owns more books than shoes.

21 comments:

  1. "An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." Aldous Huxley

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  2. Is that pairs of shoes or individual shoes?

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  3. plausible definition of an intellectual:

    person who *looks* at books more than shoes....

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  4. Books with words in them, or picture books?

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  5. What about books about shoes?

    Do you have to count them as well?

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  6. I've only got one pair of shoes. And they're red and falling apart in a decidedly Charlie Chaplin fashion.

    I must be very intellectual then...

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  7. Heels or flats Spin?

    [I'm guessing heels - multi-strapped, red Chlesea boot numbers with a kitten heel.]

    (I'm quoting young Billster here):

    "Yummers!"

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  8. Definition of an anti-intellectual...

    Somebody who owns more magazines than books.

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  9. what if they're all nurse romances and chiltons' guides?

    or anne rice?

    i don't really want to know; that was just one of those not really a question thingies.
    thats like a question but really isn't.

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  10. rhetorical.
    a rhetorical thingie.

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  11. FN: I'm hoping they're all rhetorical questions. I don't have the intellectual energy to answer them.

    And in that Chantelle-like state, is it true that Doc Martens are cool again? So if I get myself a new pair of steelies, I'll be dismissed as a witless trend-hopper?

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  12. Shoes cost more than books so I'm obviously going to have more books.

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  13. I have more books than shoes, but the same number of eyes as feet. This is not a riddle...


    http://thebigsideorder.blogspot.com/

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  14. how about someone with more books than DVDs?

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  15. I just looked in the *shoe* box under the stairs and couldn't find any shoes at all.

    I have some slippers that I wear out and about.

    Mules with feathers.

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  16. I keep the shoe boxes to put "things" in. I have more shoes than "things".

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  17. So maybe the ultimate definition of an intellectual is someone who only buys shoes to get shoeboxes, in which books may be stored.

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  18. I have more books than magazines, more magazines than shoes, and a pink shoebox that contains old love letters. And I think that the production of the self in non-physical space is at least on a par with sex in the interestingness stakes.

    *adopts whiny tone*

    Tim, am I an intellectual?

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  19. Buggered if I know, darling. You're the one with the MA. And you seem to know rather more French eggheads (têtes à l'oeuf???) than I do.

    Oh, OK, yes, provided the pink shoebox is an ironic affectation, along with the whine.

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  20. or how about someone who TALKS like he's got more books than anything else...?

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  21. Anti-intellectual - smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values.

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