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    The smartest man of whom I've ever been aware was Rocky Marciano.
    He retired undefeated at age 31 with a 49-0 record including 43 knockouts.

    When I was a little boy, he was bigger in the North End than Frank Sinatra.

    His picture was on the walls of neighborhood shops and bars above that of Pope Pious XII...and rightfully so.

    He was dead, much too young, before my kids were even born, and even they know him as an Italian-American icon.

    His photo hangs in my man cave even as I type this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bulletbob View Post
    for me its a doctor I know, his knowledge of medicine is vast and he also has a huge knowledge in other fields, on top of that he has great common sense and is with out doubt the smartest man I know . I dont think hes the smartest man but he is the smartest man I know personally.

    Of note I know hm not just from a professional stand point but a private stand point also .



    Now lest look at Joe Bidens pick , the great hunter Biden , if hes the smartest man joe knows I would hate to know who the dumbest he knows is .
    Seriously he chose a corrupt con man and perverted crack head as his pick kinda tells you a lot about joe dont you think.
    We had a Russian teacher at the Defense Language Institute when I was in the Navy. During his life he earned the equivalent of 7 doctorate degrees in the USSR before he escaped to the United States. He was an underground author (I have a book he signed for me when it was published, his pseudonym was A. Denvig) and quite an amazing gentleman. Before we even knew he actually had so many doctorate degrees, we actually called him "The Doctor" as his descriptive nickname. Anyway, this guy was probably the smartest guy I have known.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    We had a Russian teacher at the Defense Language Institute when I was in the Navy. During his life he earned the equivalent of 7 doctorate degrees in the USSR before he escaped to the United States. He was an underground author (I have a book he signed for me when it was published, his pseudonym was A. Denvig) and quite an amazing gentleman. Before we even knew he actually had so many doctorate degrees, we actually called him "The Doctor" as his descriptive nickname. Anyway, this guy was probably the smartest guy I have known.
    My wife who was both a student and cadre at a DLI Russian Department says that those kinds of stories were almost always exaggerations told to impress students.

    I just asked her.
    I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.

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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    Bullshitbob






    Six grammatical errors within a fourteen-word span. It definitely ain't you, pal.



    Haw, haw...................................haw.
    never said it was now did I , you going to name some one or just flap your lips, the spelling police that god democrats are not de funding them

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    Does this include the dead, or someone I currently know?

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    Grammer police out talkin about meh?

    Srsly, my commas get more scrutiny than trump's hair.

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    Bullshitbob


    never said it was now did I , you going to name some one or just flap your lips, the spelling police that god democrats are not de funding them
    I don't give a flying fuck if you have the grammatical grasp of a three-toed sloth- but dumping your semi-coherent crap on other , respected , members is derisible. Consider yourself derided.

    Also- your dumbass thread is in the wrong fucking forum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by moon View Post
    Bullshitbob


    I don't give a flying fuck if you have the grammatical grasp of a three-toed sloth- but dumping your semi-coherent crap on other , respected , members is derisible. Consider yourself derided.

    Also- your dumbass thread is in the wrong fucking forum.
    Its a great thread idea. It really drives home to me that almost all of my best teachers I learned from books, that I have known very few in person. Just about the smartest person I have known directly is my grandfather, a pig farmer, a man who once went 17 years between vacations.
    I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    MY FATHER AND HES DEAD!
    Was he shot whilst rioting?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bulletbob View Post
    I have to disagree with you he cant be to smart he married YOU
    She's such a narcissitic bullshitter, sounds like she married the Rainman!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    If we are talking about "know of" then the smartest woman I know is Camille Paglia. The smartest man I know of is probably Jordan Peterson, but I would want to sleep on it before giving a final answer. I might possibly change my mind, Russell Brand is an option.

    As for smartest I know personally I dont have much to look up to being here in a very left area of a left state....good brains are in very short supply. I have had a lot of bad doctors in the military system over the last 34 years though my last one is awesome....which is why he is leaving next month, he got picked up for a very high speed military program in San Antonio. I barely hope to find smart people with good ideas in my daily life anymore, and most of the people that I did once look up to have allowed themselves to be rotted out with the Victim Culture Cults Woke Religion, so I was probably wrong about them all along.
    Russell Brand is an arsehole, total scumbag with the morals of an alley cat.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Primavera View Post
    Russell Brand is an arsehole, total scumbag with the morals of an alley cat.
    You are not telling me that he is not brilliant.
    I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.

    DARK AGES SUCK!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    You are not telling me that he is not brilliant.
    Which means what honestly, doesnt need electricity to shine like a junky lightbulb in the sun?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    Its a great thread idea.

    Wrong fucking forum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Primavera View Post
    She's such a narcissitic bullshitter, sounds like she married the Rainman!
    Cowards and mainstream morons attack members families, maggot. You really fit the scum-sac profile.



    Haw, haw.....................................haw.
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