Minutes of the Play Grop: "Highly Stupid"?

--- by JLS
----- for the GC


"ON ANOTHER OCCASION," -- actually a few -- "we spent four consecutive meetings trying to focus on why sometimes it makes sense to say 'highly intelligent' but seldom, if at all, 'highly stupid'. We reached no conclusion. Ernest Gellner had a spy and he told about this to him, who reported it in his infamous book, "Words and things" and the next thing we were the laughing stock of the London set. But we couldn't care, and if we did, we assumed we didn't."