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- When in need for a handy phrase to descibe a person's lack of mental
- capacity, try the following. These are actual lines out of Officer
- Efficiency Report performance appraisals for the military:
-
- - Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.
- - Got into the gene pool while the lifeguard wasn't watching.
- - Got a full 6-pack but lacks the plastic thingy to hold it all
- together.
- - A gross ignoramus -- 144 times worse than an ordinary ignoramus.
- - A photographic memory but whith the lens cover glued on.
- - A prime candidate for natural deselection.
- - Bright as Alaska in December.
- - One-celled organisms outscore him on IQ tests.
- - Donated his body to science before he was done using it.
- - Gates are down, lights are flashing, but the train isn't coming.
- - Has two brains; one is lost and the other is out looking for it.
- - He's so dense, light bends around him.
- - If he were any more stupid, he'd have to be watered twice a week.
- - If you give him a penny for his thoughts, you'd get change.
- - If you stand close to him, you can hear the ocean.
- - It's hard to believe that he beat out 1,000,000 other sperm.
- - One neuron short of a synapse.
- - Wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead.
-
-
- Along the same lines, some quotations from actual performance
- evaluations:
-
- "Since my last report, this employee has hit rock bottom and has started
- to dig."
-
- "His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity."
-
- "I would not allow this employee to breed."
-
- "This associate is really not so much of a has-been, but more of a
- definitely a won't-be."
-
- "Works well when under constant supervision and cornered like a rat in a
- trap."
-
- "When she opens her mouth, it seems that this is only to change
- whichever foot was previously in there."
-
- "He would be out of his depth in a parking lot puddle."
-
- "This young lady has delusions of adequacy."
-
- "He sets low personal standards and then consistently fails to achieve
- them."
-
- "This employee should go far, and the sooner he starts, the better."
-
- "This employee is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot."
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