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Guy
Professor
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"Lapel." In Luck of the Fryish.
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Omicronian
Crustacean
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"Ah the scent of a rose, curious how an aromatic chain of hydrocarbons can evoke our deepest emotions"
Or does this not count becuase he was under worm-influence? It's certainly the most intelligent sentence he's ever produced.
BTW...does anybody know the joke which ends with Fry saying "Well...once in the park"? Something about being flashed by an old man or something? I just can't seem to remember the whole joke, or the episode it was in....anyone?
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Omicronian
Crustacean
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Thank you Kryten! That was really driving me crazy! When that episode aired and I heard that line for the first time...I thought I would die laughing (I have a very immature sense of humor)
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Smitty
Professor
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Not really intelligent vocabulary but very good mathmatics from Fry:
"How could you deliver a million papers in less than an hour?" From 3ACV12
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SQFreak
Professor
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Originally posted by Joe25: How Hermes Requesitioned his Groove Back - Fraternized(sp?) Wasn't he only repeating something that Morgan said/was on the form?
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ZombieJesus
Lost Belgian
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by Jesus: ...Startreck ... Are you trying to get yourself killed?
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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He's Jesus, ZJ. He'll just be resurected on the thrid day.
Anywho, the episode is "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", in which Fry make a bowstring out of caterpillars. And the only reason why he sounds smart, is because all nerds have an encyclopediac knowledge in their area of interest.
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Smitty
Professor
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"I can explain. It was once milk and, well, time makes fools of us all!" - How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back
That was too quick witted for Fry and when did he learn to call yoghurt "fool"?
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Tele-Toby
Crustacean
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Originally posted by Mike!: "I love symposia!" I think this is more of a case in which he didn't understand what the word actually meant when he heard it. I get the feeling that Fry was thinking of ambrosia, that gelatinous marshmallowy horror served up at Thanksgiving.
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Leela03
Crustacean
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hmmm I'm not sure Fry is stupid, but I defiently think he has lack of commen since. Commen since is very different than intelagance...
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Chanukah Zombie
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by Mike!: Hmm.. I don't know. The Professor referred to it as a symposium, didn't he, so Fry must have been smart to know the plural, unless it was a lucky guess. I just thought it was funny to hear him saying 'symposia'.. You don't hear that word often.
Being, English, though, I suppose I might not have made the connection with 'ambrosia', what with it being a Thanksgiving Day thing.. We do have a brand of custard called Ambrosia here though.. Mmm.. that's nice. Yeah, I commented on the "symposia" thing a while back in something I called "pedantically hypercorrect diction" in Futurama. I don't think Fry is the only one who uses it in the show. The thing that amused me most of all is that "symposia" is today considered overly precise in America. The preferred form is the far less formidable sounding "symposiums." Of course, nerds like me just can't accept that and continue saying it JUST AS GOD INTENDED. In my boring-as-hell etiological analysis I would say that there is one or more of the following factors afoot here: 1) Fry is a smart person who is convinced that he is dumb and therefore convinces everyone else of that. 2) Fry tries, albeit unsuccesfully for the most part, to use big words and fancy concepts in his speech to cover up his stupidity, with the moral that being pedantic is not necessarily the same thing as being intellgient. 3) Fry is a longtime fan of science fiction and the lesson here is that sci-fi literature can ennoble the mind of even a simpleton. 4) There are many types of mental prowess and the English language tends to lump them all together in vague terms like "intelligence," "wisdom" and "knowledge" -- terms that no one ever really differentiates. The point being that a person can have enormous peaks and valleys between these different abilities and most people around him or her can't tell them apart so they categorize that person inaccurately according to just one of those traits. 5) There is no number five. 5a) Ambrosia (the American marshmallow concoction) only tastes good for about the first thirty seconds, or first three ounces, whichever comes first. Thereafter it serves mostly as an emetic.
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Grim
Professor
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I think CZ was making a joke with there is no #5
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Turanga, A
Crustacean
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There was one simpsons episode where Homer became smart because he had the crayon that was lodged in his brain remove which mave him as smart as Lisa, but he couldn't stand and it went back to being a moron.
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