wiseacre

Not to get all wiseacre but the real culture clash is when primary education amounts to almost nothing.

I was going to make a wiseacre remark about how my work frowned on bringing pot plants to work, but I know what you mean:).

That's the most hilarious Wikipedia article I've read, and the monkey seems like a huge wiseacre.

> illustrates only Shaw’s wiseacre ignorance.

:-) Your point stands, I was being a wiseacre.

Then they believe they are in the position of a city mayor trying to build a bridge and some wiseacre comes along and says they can do it in an afternoon with two pieces of string and a stick of gum.

(To illustrate the point, I supply a quote from said article of a fact which seems to be ignored curiously often: ‘George Bernard Shaw's ghoti … illustrates only Shaw's wiseacre ignorance.

In his introduction, he takes ghoti to task: > Whenever the subject comes up, someone is sure to bring up all the words in -ough, or George Bernard Shaw's ghoti -- a word which illustrates only Shaw's wiseacre ignorance.

Let me link [0], as I do every time this comes up: > Whenever the subject [of English spelling] comes up, someone is sure to bring up … George Bernard Shaw's ghoti -- a word which illustrates only Shaw's wiseacre ignorance.

I thought some wiseacre or other had proved that the thing couldn't be done?" "It can be done," said Achilles.