Lewinsky and Kaczynski

[DaJudge]

The Washington Post runs a weekly contest in its Style section called the 'Style Invitational'.

The requirements this week were to use the two words 'Lewinsky' (the Intern) and 'Kaczynski' (the Unibomber) in the same limerick.

Now, remember, the following winning entries were actually printed verbatim in the newspaper, no bleeps or xxxs:


Third place:

There once was a girl named Lewinsky
Who played on a flute like Stravinsky
'Twas 'Hail to the Chief'
On this flute made of beef
That stole the front page from Kaczynski.


Second place:

Said Clinton to young Ms. Lewinsky,
We don't want to leave clues like Kaczynski,
Since you made such a mess,
Use the hem of your dress
And please wipe that stuff off your ! chinsky.



And the winning entry:

Lewinsky and Clinton have shown
What Kaczynski must surely have known,
That an intern is better
Than a bomb in a letter,
When deciding how best to be blown.

[rondog]

Whatever happened to Ms. Chewinsky? I have a Shop-Vac named Monica....

[DaJudge]

Whatever happened to Ms. Chewinsky? I have a Shop-Vac named Monica....
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From Thong to Thesis: Monica Lewinsky Flashes Her Intellect

By Libby Copeland
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 24, 2006; D01

There are moments that make you question your fundamental assumptions
about the world. One of them took place a few days ago, when news
emerged that Monica Lewinsky had just graduated from the London School
of Economics.

She did not!!

Lewinsky, 33, is known more for her audacious coquetry than for her
intellectual heft, and the notion of her earning a master of science degree
in social psychology at the prestigious London university is jarring, akin to
finding a rip in the time-space continuum, or discovering that Kim Jong Il is
a natural blond.

Even more staggering, the same bubbly gal who once described the act of
flashing her thong at the president as a "small, subtle, flirtatious gesture"
has now written a lofty-sounding thesis. Its title, according to Reuters: "In
Search of the Impartial Juror: An Exploration of the Third Person Effect and
Pre-Trial Publicity."

Monica! We hardly knew ye!

A revelation on this order suggests Lewinsky belongs to a fascinating
subspecies, dumb-but-smart. Dumb-but-smart folks defy our low
expectations. They appear dull or ditzy but possess unpredictable pockets
of intelligence.

For example, dumb-but-smart: Ashton Kutcher! Majored in biochemical
engineering in college. (Huh?) And: Jessica Simpson, who famously didn't
know the difference between tuna and chicken, and posited that buffalo
wings are made from buffalo. Simpson's mother once told Vanity Fair that
her daughter has "this, like, 160 IQ And, you know, that's, like, a genius
level."

Like, no way.

We all know a dumb-but-smart person -- the airheaded clotheshorse who
holds an Ivy league PhD; the mulleted townie who grows up to be a Wall
Street tycoon. These people are smart in spite of themselves. At high
school reunions, the pleasure of looking better than a former flame is
completely undone by the mysterious success of the dumb-but-smarts, who
seem too stupid even to appreciate their own unlikely journeys.

The dumb-but-smart type is especially common for women in the celebrity
realm, where stupidity has historically been as much of an asset for women
as double D's. Often it's a put-on -- smart comedians like Lucille Ball and
Goldie Hawn have played up their ditsiness for humorous effect. As for men,
figures like Flavor Flav, Steven Seagal and Ted Nugent come across as a
few sandwiches short of a picnic; they qualify as dumb-but-smart only
because we imagine they must possess some business acumen to have
gotten as far as they have.

(The celebrity world is so diverse and accepting it also makes room for the
just-plain-dumb. We are thinking now of Kevin Federline and Anna Nicole
Smith. But that's a whole 'nother picnic.)

The dumb-but-smart type exists in politics, too. Some people might argue
that our current president falls into the category of dumb-but-smart. We're
going to gently sidestep that argument.

But Dan "potatoe" Quayle is a good example. It is easy to remember his
dumb moments, but it's its also worth recalling that Quayle earned a law
degree and was the youngest-ever senator from Indiana when he was
elected. These are accomplishments that require -- at the very least --
emotional intelligence and some intellectual capacity, if not the genius of,
say, Jessica Simpson.

President Clinton, meanwhile, seems more like a smart guy who does stupid
things than a stupid guy who does smart things. We'll call this category
smart-but-dumb. American history is replete with examples of people like
him, bright people prone to idiotic behavior. The invasion of the Bay of Pigs
is an example of what happens when smart people make dumb decisions.
Also, "Ishtar."

As for Lewinsky, perhaps we should not be surprised by her spanking new
degree. After all, she made a name for herself by accomplishing the
unexpected. Back in the day, when she skyrocketed to notoriety as a
young intern who'd had an affair with the president, people's reactions were
the same as they are now.

She did not!!

? 2007 The Washington Post Company

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