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A friend of mine used to work for a game company in Utah. Not far down the street from that company was a rival CG company. On lunches, or I guess pretty much any time they drove past the rival company, someone would lean out the car window and shout “YOU’RE DUMB!”

It was doubtful anyone at the rival company ever heard the guys hollering, but even if anyone somehow had managed to hear the disembodied insult, they probably wouldn’t have understood the words much less their meaning. The only relevant thing here is that my friends were representin’ as they said in those days, and in so doing, had issued a Drive-by Dumbing.

And so it was I came to be surprised this weekend, while standing in a crowd of parents and other onlookers at Lax Splash in Towson (Lax Splash is a multi-state Lacrosse tournament held here in Maryland) that a car drove by and some twentysomething leaned out the open window and shouted, “READ A BOOK!” I’m not entirely certain what his message was, but I believe it translates roughly to “YOU’RE DUMB!”

Ah. The literati, representin’.