Herman by Jim Unger for March 16, 2022

Not can’t. Won’t! Won’t eat it either!

I can make it. It is the grill part that I have a problem with.

I for one can never solve for getting a square piece of cheese to precisely cover a bread-shaped piece of bread.

Then he proceeds to explain it with an equation.

Too complicated. He should calculate the right doses.

Now watch me draw a bunny.

“No natural logs in it.”

I used to work with a guy that was on the Cambridge, MA fire department (home of Harvard and MIT, amongst others) and his line was “there dumbest smart people you’ll ever meet.”

Intelligence and education do not necessarily go together.

I was married to a genius once. When we divorced I had to teach him how to cook a frozen pizza and use a washing machine. I wouldn’t have, but he had our 5 yr old for the weekend.

Queen of the backhanded compliment

If it would be as organized as what’s on that board, you don’t want him to do that! It would take hours to clean the kitchen.

It is rumoured that Einstein could not do his taxes.

Bazinga!

Oh he can. He won’t, but he can.

Because we’re always out of cheese?

yeah, it doesn’t add up

He’s probably a wiz at doing paint-by-numbers paintings.

I find that the smarter they are the less common sense they have…not all but most!

If the answer to his equation is ‘42’…

I knew a physicist at Stanford that didn’t know how to use a can opener. True story.

He married you didn’t he…..

It’s below his pay grade.

That’s a genius for you. He can build a house but he can’t unlock the door…

He can make a cheese sandwich. It will look like the blackboard.

Whole heartily agree with Its.

Different set of skills.

I suppose this is the time to bring out the story of my step-niece. She studied anthropology with the pygmies.

She appreciated their honesty even when it was too honest. For example, they told her that they felt sorry for her because she was too ugly to get a husband: she’s white, she’s tall (even by western standards) and too skinny (not that she thinks so – apparently pygmy men like women with some “meat on their bones.”)

They also think that Americans and Europeans are kind of stupid. You can’t leave them out in the jungle for a minute without them getting into some kind of trouble.

And they are right at least as far as I’m concerned. I doubt that I would pick a pygmy as a member of my design team, but if I’m in the jungle, I want one by my side.

They are “differently smart.”

Apples and oranges, Babe! They are two completely different skill sets.

Einstein rarely wore socks. When he did he put them over his shoes as he usually did not tie the laces. In his defense making a good grilled cheese sandwich is hard.