The View From Down Here

Ever hear of Socrates? Plato? Aristotle?

Morons. At least the genius Vizzini thought so, but he poisoned himself. In honor of his that genius' death, here is my latest dialog (between Lemur and reader):

Lemur: "I'm going to start employing a new rating system for reviews on this blog..."

reader: "What reviews? Lemur, your blog is dead..."

Lemur: "Oh... the ones I've been witting but not posting. And, dead? Death is so final, irreconcilable, I like to think of it as hibernating."

reader: "uhhh, I didn't know Lemurs hibernated..."

Lemur: "Their blogs do... it's a well known fact."

reader: "Whatever, you're beginning to bore me... get on with the rating system thing."

Lemur: "Yes, it is the Genius Rating System... "

reader: "Uh... ok... at least now I know why you were quoting 'The Princess Bride'..."

Lemur: "The longer the object has been in the presence of genius, the better the review is."

reader: "..."

Lemur: "For example..."

reader: "(good, I needed an example)"

Lemur: "Something that I rate highly would be 'Pure Genius'. While something that I did not like would be 'no genius at all'. With a wide variety of permutations in between, like 'whiff of genius', 'glimpse of genius', or 'moment of genius'.

reader: "oh yes, that's quite clear..."

Lemur: "Of course, I reserve the right to be creative with my own Genius Scale... I might say something like 'genius overslept that morning', or 'genius passed by, but no one was looking' for something I didn't like so much."

reader: "That's marginally funny, Lemur."

Lemur: "Thanks, I try."

reader: "But... don't quit your day job."

Lemur: "Why do you think I never post?"

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