Is there intelligent life in the UK?

[sailaway21]

You couldn't tell by the article below from the Telegraph. If you proceed from the viewpoint that stable governments of the nature of Saudi Arabia are responsible for the stable level of mayhem we've witnessed out of the middle east for the last forty years, then you'll probably agree with me that the writer should either be horse whipped or return to teaching at Cambridge.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../02/do0203.xml

[7Psych]

There is no intelligent life in the U.K. Culinary Arts!

[chucklesR]

From the article "the American naval port of Annapolis." I think that proves the point. Annapolis is a 'naval port' now? Funny, I live there and don't recall it being much more than the academy and some 'support bases' - doesn't a port require a place that normally docks ships (not yard tenders, sailboats and training trawlers).

[sailingdog]

I generally don't see Culinary Arts and UK being at all related...except as mutually exclusive.

[sailaway21]

Comments on the culinary arts and the UK being of merely nominal interest on the best of days, and being nowhere mentioned in the article cited, should be left to the provisioning thread. This brings up the recurring internet maxim of actually reading the OP or question prior to answering. What may have worked on the 8th grade history essay is not a foundation for future knowledge.

[CapnHand]

They're intelligent enough to have stayed out of this thread so far, anyhow.

If comedy is any indication of higher intelligence then the UK has to be regarded with respect (comedy in politics is universal and therefore is a poor example).

I offer the following examples Top of the Form , Four Yorkshiremen , Friends Like These and Military Fairy .

Arguably, comedy could be said to have peaked with Ecky Thump , 2 , 3 . This was comedy honed to a lethal art, one viewer having died after 25 minutes of continuous laghter resulting in a heart attack.

[sailaway21]

For the congenitally obtuse, the thread title was a rhetorical question.

[CapnHand]

Ask the obtuse question, get the obtuse response.

For the record, I wouldn't say that one is congenitally obtuse unless I'd known them to have the condition at birth. "Wholly recalcitrant", however; now there is a term which could apply to someone who would start a thread like this.

[sailaway21]

The Canadian definition of recalcitrant must be different than the rest of the English-speaking peoples use. Thanks, gratefully, for not commenting on the Telegraph article. (g)