Stoopid
We taught my son that stupid was a bad word. We didn’t want him calling things (“Stupid game” or “Stupid dog” or “Stupid anthill”) or people this word so we told him it was a baaaaaad word.
Then of course it happened that he tried to tell us that someone used the word only he couldn’t use the word because he knew it was a bad word so… he asked us if he could spell it and if spelling it was the same a saying the word out loud. We said yes, he could spell it and wasn’t quite the same as saying the word.
So he looked around, as if he was doing something wrong and someone would overhear him and whispered. “That boy said the
And so the parenting world goes.
Yesterday I saw the ad from Diesel at
“Stupid might fail. Smart doesn’t even try.”
The picture that accompanied it was a man trying to fit himself into a mailbox. His head was in the top and his feet were up in the air. The tag line in the bottom right corner stated, “Diesel for successful living.”
Here are the next four.
“Be stupid.” Maybe that one just spoke for itself.
“We’re with stupid.” The picture next to this had the infamous yellow smiley face next to it on a black background
“You can’t outsmart stupid.” This one had a woman’s face six inches away from an open mouthed white tiger.
“Smart had one idea and that idea was stupid.”
And finally…
“Stupid ain’t dumb.”
Now my son no longer spells stupid with two “o’s”. I miss those days. Especially when I see an advertisement campaign like this one.
It’s just s-t-o-o-p-i-d.