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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI've got half a brain
I saw one of my neighbors today who I rarely see.
Since we were both wearing masks, we stopped to talk for a few minutes.
He said he always enjoys talking with me as Im one of his few neighbors with half a brain.
drray23
(7,627 posts)RainCaster
(10,857 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)Lol. At least he didn't say "only"!
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Count your blessings!
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)That's what they tell me anyways. I don't do math.
Skittles
(153,138 posts)less than half a brain
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)I've heard that phrase a few times in the Midwest, and it's a compliment. The focus is on the others who are far more stupid compared to you.
They don't even have "half a brain", but you have at LEAST that... probably even a "full brain".
Lol, it's indeed a strange saying.
keithbvadu2
(36,727 posts)When George Wallace ran for governor of Alabama in 1962, his political enemies found out that he'd suffered battle fatigue in World War II, recalled Victor Gold, an author and speechwriter for President George H.W. Bush.
The anti-Wallace camp said he was thus unqualified.
"On the stump, Wallace, pointing to a bill of health from his veterans hospital, quipped, 'Im the only candidate in this race who has a certificate proving hes sane,'" Gold also remembered, adding, "In the South of my political youth the 1950s and 60s we took our crackpot chief executives in stride."
LuckyCharms
(17,425 posts)doesn't sound like one!
diva77
(7,639 posts)is an idiom. Definition: common sense
Used in a sentence: If he had half a brain, he would have left a long time ago.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/half%20a%20brain
lastlib
(23,197 posts)Or you have mine!