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Stupids

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Stupids - Term used by samurai for the suits who employ them. Succinctly expresses an attitude at least as common, though usually better disguised, among other subcultures of hackers. There may be intended reference here to an SF story originally published in 1952 but much anthologised since, Mark Clifton's "Star, Bright". In it, a super-genius child classifies humans into a very few "Brights" like herself, a huge majority of "Stupids", and a minority of "Tweens", the merely ordinary geniuses.


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Pontecorvo continued making documentaries and short films until 2003, served as director of the Venice Film Festival from 1992 to 1994, and made an appearance as Talk Show Guest #1 in John Landis' 1996 film, "The Stupids.
Gillo Pontecorvo by Horton, Matt / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
The band's name is Sheglank'd Shoulders, kind of stupid, but straight outta the Animal Chin video and in the tradition of bands that go back to Beyond Possession (another Canadian gem), the Stupids, the Faction, etc.
Holy shit, one look at the cover and I had the feeling I was looking ... by Lundry, Wez / Thrasher
If you're a member of the silly Peterkin family (venerable literary ancestors of the Stupids and, now, Horvath's Pepins), you hire a carpenter to raise the parlor ceiling.
Elizabeth Spurr, adapter: the Peterkins' Christmas by The Horn Book Magazine
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