Co-Worker Follies

[snowwy]

If ever you wondered just how subtle and evil my mind is, here's an example:

On Twitter, witchysab posts-
The words moron, imbecile, and idiot are not interchangable. The one with the highest level of intelligence is a moron, followed, by an idiot.

My mind immediately asks and answers the obvious question.  And it occurs to me that whether one is a

Comments

[ardaniel]

My dad, my sister, and I spent a good two weeks one summer actually coming up with a quantifiable hierarchy of stupid, based on the dictionary, the encyclopedia, and the thesaurus.

[snowwy]

And your results? Show your work. ;)

[emberleo]

Oh, huh, I've been remembering it wrong all this time. I thought morons were dumber than idiots.

--Ember--

[krinndnz]

Help me out here? The only obvious question that comes to mind is "in what context is that distinction important?" - and that's probably not what you're thinking, because I have to suppose that there are such contexts.

[songcoyote]

The first question that came to my mind was "Why is there a comma after 'followed'?", but I'm a proofreader, even though my grammar isn't perfect :p

The next question that comes to mind is "Why does the fact that an idiot is following him/her mark the moron as having higher intelligence?" but that's just snarky and ignores what grammatical separators are actually present.

I am all too often not cognizant of obvious questions, partially because I'm not the brightest torch in the bundle (nor am I the dimmest), but also because I think oddly at times. So my next question is "What is it that you thought was the obvious question?"

It's all good :)

Light and laughter,
SongCoyote

[luna_virgo]

The first question that came to my mind was "Why is there a comma after 'followed'?"

That was my first thought, too.

[avatar_jones]

Why a comma? I dunno. I do know "why a duck?"
I've always enjoyed sseperating the morons from the idiots though. Gotta love them medical definitions...