But to be ignorant, was very bliss
My housemate at uni once asked: "You know how everyone says, 'Is the Pope a Catholic?' but is the Pope actually a Catholic?". While that is undoubtedly the stupidest thing anyone has ever said, a close second would go to the short Mancunian who was having a discussion with a short Cockney about who had the worst case of small man's syndrome. The Manc won the argument, accidentally, by saying, without a trace of irony: "My Napoleon complex is way bigger than your's". Still the best sentence I have ever heard.
(lurk_hard_pray_hard, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 2:48, 8 replies)

What's that subject line from?
It sounds incredibly familar but Google isn't coming up with a suggestion and I can't put my finger on it.
( Bats, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 8:03, closed)

...
It's a reference - I assume - to Wordsworth's "The French Revolution as It Appeared to Enthusiasts at Its Commencement", ll 4-5:

"Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven!"


Actually, come to think of it, it doesn't really work, does it?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 8:41, closed)

I knew I knew it from somewhere,
Just finished the Romantics and the French/American revolutions at uni.

I think it works, anyway, as it sounded familiar.
( Bats, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 9:17, closed)

Not the exact quote, but Wikitionary cites
Thomas Gray's Ode On A Distant Prospect Of Eton College as the source of "ignorance is bliss".
That notwithstanding, this is terribly amusing (if you enjoy sneering at thick people).
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 9:36, closed)

The problem I have with Yahoo Answers
is the sheer amount of trolling. I mean, sneering is good fun and all but it's a bit dull when it's staged (as it were).

I would like to add a quote to that page, though; Machiavel in The Jew Of Malta: 'I hold there is no sin but ignorance'. One of my favourites.
( Bats, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:15, closed)

I gave Yahoo Answers a go, for a while,
but quickly realised that I wasn't that interested in doing homework for lazy kids. Still, the maternity section was always an amusing bucket of crazy.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 10:43, closed)

Running to catch
a tube once about 20 years ago I heard two girls talking, one said:

"He's the worlds biggest exagerater!"
(dchurch bah, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 11:07, closed)

There are plenty of Catholics out there who don't think the pope is Catholic.
Mel Gibson's old dad for one.
(ubergeekian, Tue 4 Sep 2012, 15:30, closed)