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Why Every Office Needs an Outsider
Research has shown that having an oddball team member not only gives you someone to make fun of, but also leads to better decision making. Researcher Katie Liljenquist, says having "socially distinct newcomers" on a team can help it perform at a higher level. Team tension is crucial, and shaking up the same old crowd is the way to create it. "You can imagine if you work in an office and you've got this outsider like Dwight Schrute who walks in and a lot of his ideas resonate with you. Your fellow in-group members are hearing this and thinking, 'Wait, you agree with Dwight?' That can be really uncomfortable and socially threatening," she says.
He may need a teleprompter, but at least when he has one he can talk without sounding like a complete idiot.
You forgot about the "thank you" speech, and "liberty, [looooong pause] egalitie, fraternite" .
The guy might be the smartest man in the known universe, but the guy, a politician no less, so smooth that people swooned over him, can't even memorize the basic outline of a speech (because otherwise he would have noticed that he wasn't reading his own speech).
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
Besides, I think British English is more corrupt than American English, innit?
Eh, snooker or pool, it's all about the spin.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?