As Karen has pointed out, the Stupidest among us tend to wear clothes that are four sizes too big, hats and visors turned sideways and, as Stephan Kinsella has pointed out, we all know someone who should be wearing one of those signs announcing “I’m Stupid.”
But let’s not forget the Stupid Man’s car: A tiny four cylinder Honda Civic or similar vehicle with a tailpipe that, like the driver’s clothing, is four times bigger than normal. The Stupid Man is never happier than when he is sitting in traffic and, as soon as the light turns green and he steps on the gas, the muffler and tailpipe make his 120 horsepower, miniature rattletrap sound like a Nascar racer — at least in his own Stupid Mind. To the rest of us it’s just another baggy clothed, sideways visor-wearing moron trying to “distinguish” himself in the only way he knows how (in addition to mutilating his body with small chunks of metal pierced into his tongue, nose, eyebrows and ears).
6:47 pm on September 24, 2003
