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Intelligence vs. Common Sense

Published by Stardust in Jokes
October 19, 2009

Everyone Has the Necessary Tools to Be Successful. The Hard Part is Learning to Use Them Effectively.

A prominent physicist gave himself a last minute check in the mirror as he prepared himself for the day he had long waited. Taking a second to glance at the reflection of his patiently awaiting chauffer he sarcastically lectured him on the importance of a good education.” If you had gone
 to college and really applied yourself it would be you receiving this nobel prize”

Before the physicist could retrieve his breathe from the last comment the chauffer quickly replied “it don’t take a whole lot of brains to fool those people like you are smart when you ain’t ” Hesitantly the physicist turned and issued a challenge that dared his driver to back up his claim by trading places for the pending event.

Stunned at the challenge, the driver cowardly declined saying” you are just gonna do something to give me away”. No the physicist replied ” as a matter of fact I will do whatever it takes to make sure it is not I who lets the cat out of the bag. As icing on the cake I will even give you the million dollar prize money if you are successful in fooling everyone.

Soon after they arrived at the function the guests swarmed the imposter and began to shower him with compliments and questions. Amazingly he breezed through the assault with nothing more than one word replies and an occasional laugh. As the night began to move into the presentation part of the event a fellow scientist interrupted with a pointed question for the imposter. “Sir what would be your take on reverse pulse polarization, for the stabilization of tackion particles”. All of a sudden there deafening silence as the crowd awaited the imposter’s answer.

An immediate smirk came to the physicist’s face as he just knew now he could savor in the sweet smell of victory. The imposter’s mind raced through a thousand emotions as he struggled for a clever answer that would continue to support his cover. Then all of a sudden he slammed the table
 with his fist as he exclaimed in a firm tone of voice. “How dare you insult my intelligence with such an elementary question.!” Pointing to the real physicist as he slowly rose from his seat. He said “that question is so elementary I am going to instruct my chauffer to answer it

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  1. Posted October 19, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    The Physicist did not use common sense in setting up the unethical circumstance, and the chauffer did not effectively use intelligence because he himself could not answer the question in a setting where he placed himself in such a position as to directly answer such questions.

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