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As a 'bumpkin', by definition, would be considered a 'stupid person', my money, then, is on the traveller.
by InCityDreams 3y ago
As a 'bumpkin', by definition, would be considered a 'stupid person', my money, then, is on the traveller.
- dudeinjapan 3y agoThe counter-argument is that the aliens might be bumpkins too. Why do they keep abducting yokels driving down backwater dirt roads??
- denton-scratch 3y agoInteresting and original scifi plotline: humans encounter hayseed, never-been-to-the-city aliens. Perhaps they 'jacked their spaceship; or maybe they're a bit like The Dukes of Hazzard, using their ship to do handbrake turns, and yelling "yeehaw".
- fnordpiglet 3y agoGeorge Green, who discovered Greens Theorem, was such a bumpkin. His father was a miller in the unfashionable countryside, and he had a modest education. A mystery of math history is how such a bumpkin was so poorly versed in advanced mathematics (inaccessible to someone far from a university, where such knowledge was confined at that time), discovered such remarkable mathematics that the average engineering undergrad knows his name. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Green_(mathematician) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Green_(mathematician) Frankly history is replete with bumpkins making extraordinary discoveries. Being a bumpkin is associated with ignorance, not stupidity. Intelligence is pretty uniformly distributed, even among the black, short, fat, and bumpkins.