Is 'smartness' the same as 'intelligentness'?

It's a noun we don't hear often in this country, so it triggers a WTF.

'intelligentness' ain't a word. Well it is but it ain't a real word with a definition and creds.

"Niggardly" is technically a word, too, but some words just sound like they shouldn't be said.

That's because of the whole politically correct racial thing though. Smartness is just lack of common usage.

It's an example of word usage that irritates because of its unnecessariness. People use uncomfortable words in defiance of common sensiness so as to appear to have an air of extra-worldliness. Why? Dumbness, pure and simple stupidness. "Look at me! Hear ME! I am unrivaled in my unrivalriness!"

Cockness.

Wow, in my attempt at humor I remind myself of a Sarah Palinness kind of moronness.

Or, maybe they were brought up with a slightly different lexicon, or followed an academic subject in which such words have more currency and they've unconsciously included them in everyday speech.

Lana Rae Meisner, Wife of Eagles Founder Randy Meisner, Killed

The incident earlier in the day makes this quite suspicious.

In my book, anyway. YMMV

V, what the hell is going on in Seattle?!?!

Another explosion?

It ain't safe, man, GTFO!

24 years old, a kilo of blow...That girl is a catch!!

The firemen had been there investigating a reported gas leak when it happened? Is that the fire department's job? I can see having them stand by, maybe even moving people out and keeping people out, but being at the explosion is nuts.

If I was running things no breast would go unsearched, mostly by me personally. :rolleyes:

Stuffed lions, chimp in a top hat stolen in $142,000 London taxidermy theft
 

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What on Earth possessed them to steal a stuffed giraffe and a chimp in a top hat?

They're hardly going to be able to shift that lot on Ebay, are they?

One for Inspector Clouseau, I think.

CNN

Yeah. That one was about five minutes walk from my house. I've posted pictures here at the cellar of that block. I might have even posted a picture of the bike shop adjacent to the now smoking crater where the three shops in the building next door used to be.

Here's the (youtube) audio of the MAYDAY call by Seattle Fire Department.


It is very scary at the start. Nine firemen sent to the hospital, all released by noon. No people in the apartments above the shops were harmed. I've shopped in all three of the businesses that are now gone.

These people live in Stoke Mandeville.
I don't think I am disclosing anything private when I say this is the next village along the railway line to where Carruthers lives.

What has he been doing?!

Link to local paper.