Comments on: Smart People and the Clothes They Wear

By: Friday night funny: clothes, nobel prize « Wintery Knight

Friday night funny: clothes, nobel prize « Wintery Knight — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:09:45 +0000

[...] From IMAO.us: At a recent speech, Obama handed out white lab coats to his audience to make them look smarter. That’s a good idea. Only smart people wear white lab coats as dumb people would just stain them with neon orange powdered cheese. Maybe Obama shouldn’t have stopped there, though. Maybe he should also have had them all wear mortar boards and have diplomas to hold in their hands so we would look at them and say, “Wow! These are smart people! If they agree with the president, then I should agree too so I will be smart!” [...]

By: Daddio

Daddio — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:45:23 +0000

Plus with the mortarboard, it’s harder to get his head stuck in buckets.

By: Mikee

Mikee — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:16:35 +0000

I write as a PhD in Chemistry.

Those white lab coats – the smart, competent people keep theirs clean. The stupid, inefficient, incompetent slobs in the labs and the hospitals and factories get theirs dirty.

That is why a clean white lab coat is an indicator of smarts.

A newly acquired lab coat, put on moments before a photo opportunity in public, indicates nothing about the wearer, except that they are vile enough to be used for base political posturing. When the wearers of the white lab coats drive home in them, and wear them at work, it will be easier to determine whether they are smart and still clean, or stupid and dirty after only a few days.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:35:57 +0000

No, innominatus, just no. If Obama whore a mortar board, he’d have to deal with the tassel being shoved up his nose when he gets a bucket stuck on his head. The board would collapse thereby shoving the tassel into his giant proboscis. Hmmm. I think I like it.

By: NO_MO_BAMA

NO_MO_BAMA — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:12:46 +0000

Well…we can read all those really smart articles He wrote when he was in charge of the Harvard Law Rev….. oh wait…
never mind. Well…there’s all those really smart laws he came up with when he was….ummm.. ok, skip that one too.
Well, he’s CLEAN! and ARTICULATE!! I think that means He’s smart, right?

By: NO_MO_BAMA

NO_MO_BAMA — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:05:41 +0000

We already know He’s smart!! (<< sorry, never mind.

By: Sgt Relic

Sgt Relic — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:20:04 +0000

#13′s right!

Pocket protectors are a must, preferably with a slide rule. Slide rules make you look really, really, really smart. Extra IQ points if you actually know how to use one!

(Warning! Slide rules should not be displayed around women because of their potential for unintended birth control.)

By: Live Free Or Die

Live Free Or Die — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:07:15 +0000

O-bah-muhh wud luhk much smirter if he wor I glassez lik Poyndeckstur & Peeboddy

By: cjtony97

cjtony97 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:07:08 +0000

innominatus – LOL : )

By: innominatus

innominatus — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:46:56 +0000

Mortar Board = Preemptive Bucket Defense System

By: MarkoMancuso

MarkoMancuso — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:33:08 +0000

Did the Scorpio Killer ever wear a hat? I can’t recall.

By: ss396

ss396 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:30:47 +0000

Pocket protectors. Don’t forget pocket protectors with a couple of pens – or maybe test tubes – in the breast pocket of the (still white) lab coat.

By: Plentyobailouts

Plentyobailouts — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:23:59 +0000

Is it just me, or were all 3 white people relegated to the background?

I wonder how much we spent on all those lab coats.

I bet they all had present hussein in 08 stickers on them.

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:16:32 +0000

BTW, I love the google ads for HealthCareForAmericaNow and the t-shirts with CCCP. It warms the cockles of my heart to know that IMAO is getting money from these groups, with little to no chance of their ads having their desired effect.

By: cjtony97

cjtony97 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:07:57 +0000

One word…….spats.

By: Silhouette

Silhouette — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:04:43 +0000

Lab coats WITH leathers patches on the elbows!

By: SPAD local 17

SPAD local 17 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:59:36 +0000

I think I actually saw this in a movie once…

…but mortarboards are a good idea- but with trowels and and aprons, too- then he would have the whole 1790′s Washington insider masonic thing going. How cool would that be?

What else could he do to look smarter? Hmmm, regarding facial hair, a soul patch could help, since bushy moustaches went out with Einstein. Maybe a vest with a nice gold watch chain and a bowler hat. No bow ties, though – that would be too Farrakhanesque.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:44:14 +0000

Or did he misinterpret Dr. Dre’s credentials?

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:43:24 +0000

Why’d he have to hand out white coats? Did George Clooney forget his “Dr. Doug Ross” costume?

By: KarlJ

KarlJ — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:37:32 +0000

EDIT: I feel we’re making progress…. a year ago, white lab coats would have been racist…

By: cjtony97

cjtony97 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:37:17 +0000

OOOH! and a jacket with patches on the elbows! He could wear it over his lab coat!

By: KarlJ

KarlJ — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:36:26 +0000

I feel we’re making progress…. a year ago, white lab coats would have racist….

By: cjtony97

cjtony97 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:34:36 +0000

He needs a monacle and a pipe. Not a straight pipe, either. One of those curly ones, the kind smart people smoke.

By: MoogieP

MoogieP — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:29:46 +0000

Even if they did don mortar boards, the White House medical corps was still missing those headbands with the reflector-thingies. That’s what really smart doctors wear. Or wore, back in the day when doctors were doctors, and cowboys rode tall in the saddle like John Wayne, who is spinning in his grave about all the shenanigans going on in DC. Now, John Wayne always wore a MAN’S hat! Don’t you think Big O would look a little goofy in John Wayne’s hat? Or boots. Heh.

By: Deafdog

Deafdog — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:28:57 +0000

Give Obama a cigar, too, and he’d look like Graucho Marx!

(It wouldn’t make his policies any better, but then I would at least have some amusement when I have to look at him.)