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The Smartest Man in the World... is ME!

Any fears that I might not land on my feet after quitting my job have been allayed.

Google, the world's leading authority on everything (provided I agree with it at the time), has recognized that Rory Blyth IS the Smartest Man in the World.

This has to seriously perturb anybody involved in the Smart-o-Lympics. Especially given the way I just spelled Smart-o-Lympics.

You could invent a god damned time machine, and I'd still be at the top of that VERY RELEVANT list.

Hey, Smart People! The plaque for the alternates is down in the ladies room.

But I'm not being a gentleman about this. I shall elucidate:

Dear Angry Legitimately Smart People Reading This,

My name is Rory Blyth. I don't have a high school diploma. I don't have a college degree. I didn't even go to the School of Life that people claim to have attended when they can't provide any of the usual qualifications on official looking bits of paper that look splendid when framed.

I like cars. Lately I've been eating tons of all natural lime popsicles. One of my favorite shows in the world is Farscape. It's about a spaceship filled with degenerate barfing muppet alien fugitives. I like it because I can relate to it because I barf and I want to be a fugitive. I'm also really hooked on it because Gigi Edgley totally strangled me at an autograph signing event. Gigi Edgley isn't a muppet. Everybody's probably sick of hearing about it, but I hang on to things like that because I don't know math or science, and I need something to bring meaning to my life.

I have an IQ of about 105. At least I used to. That was fifteen years and several major head injuries ago. People still say I'm smart, but I don't know.

I eat crayons.

There was this one time when I was assembling a Jasper Executive 3000 desk in my loft, and the desk was, like, ten feet tall, and I was doing it myself, and this huge board fell on me and hit me in the head on the right side of my head. I think it ripped a hole in the fabric of my brain and that it may have made my IQ lower by half which would be half of 105 and that's about 90, give or take ALFALFA SPROUTS.

When I was holding my skull in place after that I turned on HBO and watched Men in Black 2 eight times because they kept showing it on HBO. It was good because I wasn't getting the jokes. It was too sophisticated (like Canadian humour), so I saw it that many times which helped. Later, I got the Cliff's Notes and that explained... nothing because how can you put a price tag on a smile?. That is not a rhetorical question. I am trying to start a business please help.

I can fingerpaint a circle and a square but not at the same time.

Therefore, even because you think you are the smartest, YOU SIR ARE NOT OR MADAM.

I, Rory Blyth, DEFENDER OF THE GALAXY, am the Smartest Man in the World. OR MADAM.

If you don't like this situation then you can put your complaint in the Rory Blyth - Smartest Man in the World complaints box which is my nose, and I'll find it later when I pick for it, and when I find it, I'm going to eat it and then it's going to be gone.

Thank you small-brainy-person for being crushed by me.

Come over and sniff glue with me sometime. It makes your elbows feel like tapioca and then you try to eat them but you can't get your elbow to your mouth because it knows you are trying to eat it so it hides behind your arm and won't come out even if you set a trap. Because if you came over for glue sniffing, then I could eat your elbow since it doesn't know I want to eat it. Tapioca! Who is able to resist THAT by Jove! Then we can make out.

Very Truly Yours,

- Rory Blyth - THE Smartest Man in the World (not you)

That ought to clear up any misunderstandings.

Time to go sniff glue and watch muppets.

Published Sunday, October 07, 2007 4:03 PM by Rory

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Comments

 

Alfred Thompson said:

Yeah well tell us something we don't know! Man, you quit your job and you stll apparently have a place to live and food to eat. No doubt you are also finding way more time to impress the ladies than us working stiffs have. Not that I am interested in impressing young ladies because I am not being happily married but if I was interested I'd have no time to do it.

We all want to be you - well except for the times you go a little  non compos mentis of course - and all the women what to be with you.
October 7, 2007 6:38 PM
 

GuyIncognito said:

Upon completion of this post, I have a strange hankering for nachos.
October 7, 2007 8:53 PM
 

The Cowboy said:

I am humbled my lord.  My 287 IQ pales in comparison with the great Rory Blyth.

But seriously, I wanted to say it again in leet:

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October 7, 2007 10:44 PM
 

Akshay Vasudev said:

all hail the smartest man in the world!!!

***BOW & PRAY***
October 8, 2007 1:15 AM
 

John said:

> The Smartest Man in the World... is ME! <

No it's not. :)


October 8, 2007 7:53 AM
 

Greg said:

Smart, schmart. Heh. What I really want to know is, where do you get all natural lime popsicles?
October 8, 2007 12:10 PM
 

Eric said:

Ah, I love the snapping phase.. that's a good phase.  Everything is chaos in your head and babbling like a brook to get the chaos out helps oh so much.   The Tapioca is what tipped me off.  I know that whenever I dip into the Tapioca when writing I have gone of the small ledge that is my sad state for a mind.

Hope the packing and getting together of such things that need to be gathered is going well.  Hoping the Tapioca slathering has help.
October 8, 2007 1:28 PM
 

aristo said:

i am leaving your blog.
it was funny for some time, but looks like you going mad slowly, and it's no worth to spend my time here any more.

stay cool
Mariusz
October 8, 2007 1:36 PM
 

Rory said:

Alfred -

"We all want to be you"

Oh, trust me - not right now.

Life is good, all things considered, but it's not Good good. I have all the basics taken care of, but because of a few things I've done over the past couple years, I've isolated myself from all the things I care about. It's my own fault, but it still sucks.

And my love life has been *crap* this year :)

I'm fixing things, but... this wasn't an especially good year to be me.

'Course, I'm still the Smartest Man in the World - that totally counts for something :)
October 8, 2007 2:03 PM
 

Rory said:

GuyIncognito -

"Upon completion of this post, I have a strange hankering for nachos."

No: Tapioca. You have a hankering for tapioca. Nibbled off of another person's elbow.

Tapioca.

Hankering of.
October 8, 2007 2:04 PM
 

Rory said:

The Cowboy -

"I am humbled my lord.  My 287 IQ pales in comparison with the great Rory Blyth."

I visited your profile.

Jolene Blalock and Dr. Who.

That's all I have to say. I think the goodness is implied.
October 8, 2007 2:05 PM
 

Rory said:

John -

"> The Smartest Man in the World... is ME! <

No it's not. :)"

But google is the world's most correctest and perfectest authority on everything.

It's made a few mistakes, like finally dethroning me from first place on the results pedestal all the way down to third, but it obviously still recognizes my superhuman intellect. The message google has sent through these two placements is that intelligence is more important than popularity. I think it's the other way around, but then google is the world's most correctest and perfectest authority on everything...
October 8, 2007 2:08 PM
 

Rory said:

Greg -

"Smart, schmart. Heh. What I really want to know is, where do you get all natural lime popsicles?"

Whole Foods.

They have lime, pineapple, some weird chocolate thing that has, like, zero fat in it (what kind of chocolate thing is *that*?), and a few other flavors I don't care about. One is a chocolate covered coconut thing, and another is a "creamy" mango.

"Creamy" mango is to be avoided at all costs. It takes all the good things out of mango, works with a little lump of the bad stuff, and then makes it "creamy." You don't want it. Trust me.
October 8, 2007 2:09 PM
 

Rory said:

Eric -

"Ah, I love the snapping phase.. that's a good phase.  Everything is chaos in your head and babbling like a brook to get the chaos out helps oh so much.   The Tapioca is what tipped me off.  I know that whenever I dip into the Tapioca when writing I have gone of the small ledge that is my sad state for a mind."

I was beaming when I wrote the tapioca part. I started to have a lot of fun with the letter about a quarter of the way into it.

For a while, I just sat here and stared at the screen, thinking about how frustrating it would be if I truly felt I needed to chew on my elbow. It reminded me of the fear I had of poorly made t-shirts when I was a kid. If they weren't done quite right in the sleeves, I sometimes got stuck in them when they were halfway off. It's a life or death situation at that point - you think you're stuck that way, and that you'll never get out. It may, in part, have been due to my only sharp-things experiences having been with safety-scissors. I couldn't imagine tearing into a shirt with safety-scissors and actually getting anywhere.

A few friends of mine had the same problem. Apparently it wasn't all that rare.

But, yeah - those memories come back when I mentally try to get at that elbow.
October 8, 2007 2:13 PM
 

Rory said:

aristo -

"i am leaving your blog.
it was funny for some time, but looks like you going mad slowly, and it's no worth to spend my time here any more."

OK. Thanks for letting me know. I'll see what I can do about the sanity thing so as not to lose anymore readers. If there's one thing that Neopoleon readers want, it's a very straightforward regurgitation of other regurgitated news from around the net which is the fashion of most blogs.

I'll notify you when Neopoleon comes in vanilla, which ought to be a common enough flavor so as not to disrupt the peace of your delicate palate.
October 8, 2007 2:22 PM
 

Andrew said:

If only men could come in vanilla, I would never have to hear the words "Ewww, NO!" ever again.

Perhaps I have overshared.
October 8, 2007 3:47 PM
 

GuyIncognito said:

"<i>going</i> mad slowly"

*LOL*

He's been mad for quite some time...
October 9, 2007 1:18 PM
 

Roberto J. Dohnert said:

Hey, the voices in my head dont bother me, they shouldnt bother you.
October 9, 2007 6:31 PM
 

The Cowboy said:

Yeah, I don't really have a 287 IQ, it's like 10 or something.  

I also don't really speak leet, I used a translator.  I'm a fraud... sorry.
October 10, 2007 10:31 PM
 

Erwin Blonk said:

The Smartest Man indeed. When will the Oracle speak again? As in http://www.thesmartestman.com.
Come on, speak us to, you Overlord of Fashion, Good Food, Healthy Living and Philosopy.
October 11, 2007 10:48 PM
 

Erwin Blonk said:

Aristo

"but looks like you going mad slowly"

If you think anything in this blog constitutes clinical madness, I have to respectfully disagree.

But let´s throw in a quote. I have been declared insane a few months ago by someone here on the blog for the mere fact of quoting a songas a reply, so I deem it appropriate to do this right now.

"It was the first day of July;
no wind breathed in the sky
when a pin-striped suit
saw that the Institute of Mental Health was burning.
       
He stood upon the corner
where the sun was warmer...
looking across the street,
he moved the shackles on his feet
as the Institute was burning."

The Institute of Mental Health, Burning - Peter Hammill, Chris Judge Smith
October 11, 2007 10:59 PM
 

aristo? said:

I decided to come back, if it will make anybody happy.
I think I make Rory sad for a moment and I felf bad.

I promise to read sometimes about "death by potatos" and other stuff.

But, please, please, tell me that you still like me !!!

Greets :-)
Mariusz
ps. strange name, isn't it? probably nobody can even pronounce it. but I can
October 25, 2007 2:56 PM
 

aristo said:

greets for   Erwin Blonk

ps. I started University some time ago. I remember Rory saying that it is very expensive in US. I live in UK, and it is not. Unless it is not a Harvard or Cambridge of coz. I am not posh enought probably to get in there. I expect to spend not more than arround a 1000GBP. Rest has been paid by gov, because I am poor man.
October 25, 2007 2:58 PM
 

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