by Diggity Monkeez January 23, 2005
The desire to appear more intelligent, to be viewed as an intellectual. Common among teenagers, especially high-schoolers.
Intellectualism is composed of three tiers:
The first tier can be split into two groups. One group consists of junior poets and psychologists, those who think the have the world 'figured out'. This group generally believes that they are under far more stress than the average student, thus giving them more experience than their peers. The second first-tier group is made up of honors students. These students feel that, as honors students, they should sound the part. Thus, they try to add large words to their vocabulary, and go out of their way to tell others about their latest 'intellectual' endeavors, such as reading a book or watching the History Channel.
The second tier consists of those who dislike the first first-tier group. Oftentimes, members of this group view poetry and 'psychology' as lame attempts to appear intelligent (which, in theory, is correct). However, the second tier also tries to take unpopular stances in arguments, knowing that they have nothing to lose. After all, if they lose the argument, they were arguing an impossible point of view and put up a valiant effort. In their favor, the second tier is, on a whole, smarter than the first first-tier group, but really beats the intellectual theory to death. Also, they fail to realize that there are very few children who think that they are smarter than others solely on the grounds that they deal with more stress.
There is a surprising amount of these people that post on UrbanDictionary.com.
And the third tier, I suppose, consists of those who think that they have the second tier figured out. I put myself into this group, but I can't really think of any others in it with me. I'm sure that there are others, but they aren't snooty enough to talk openly about it.
Intellectualism is composed of three tiers:
The first tier can be split into two groups. One group consists of junior poets and psychologists, those who think the have the world 'figured out'. This group generally believes that they are under far more stress than the average student, thus giving them more experience than their peers. The second first-tier group is made up of honors students. These students feel that, as honors students, they should sound the part. Thus, they try to add large words to their vocabulary, and go out of their way to tell others about their latest 'intellectual' endeavors, such as reading a book or watching the History Channel.
The second tier consists of those who dislike the first first-tier group. Oftentimes, members of this group view poetry and 'psychology' as lame attempts to appear intelligent (which, in theory, is correct). However, the second tier also tries to take unpopular stances in arguments, knowing that they have nothing to lose. After all, if they lose the argument, they were arguing an impossible point of view and put up a valiant effort. In their favor, the second tier is, on a whole, smarter than the first first-tier group, but really beats the intellectual theory to death. Also, they fail to realize that there are very few children who think that they are smarter than others solely on the grounds that they deal with more stress.
There is a surprising amount of these people that post on UrbanDictionary.com.
And the third tier, I suppose, consists of those who think that they have the second tier figured out. I put myself into this group, but I can't really think of any others in it with me. I'm sure that there are others, but they aren't snooty enough to talk openly about it.
by Diggity Monkeez January 31, 2005
by Diggity Monkeez March 14, 2005
When I was at Waffle House, I listened to a pair of truckers talk about alligators on the road. It took some time for me to realize that these "alligators" were actually large pieces of tire.
by Diggity Monkeez January 15, 2005
Carol clammed up about the incident at the bakery, so we never did find out whatever happened to Nate.
by Diggity Monkeez May 01, 2005
1) Harold IV was the fourth Harold in his family.
2) While you're here, sir, we need to hook you up to this IV.
2) While you're here, sir, we need to hook you up to this IV.
by Diggity Monkeez February 09, 2005
The apostrophe can:
1) substitute for a word/space in a contraction.
2) show possession when placed at the end of a word and followed by 's', save for words that end in 's' or the word 'its'.
3) be used instead of a 'g' in the progressive tense (is doing, was doing, etc.).
1) substitute for a word/space in a contraction.
2) show possession when placed at the end of a word and followed by 's', save for words that end in 's' or the word 'its'.
3) be used instead of a 'g' in the progressive tense (is doing, was doing, etc.).
1) He's climbing pretty rapidly.
2) Stephanie's shorts were too small, but nobody complained.
3) I'm checkin' e-mail.
2) Stephanie's shorts were too small, but nobody complained.
3) I'm checkin' e-mail.
by Diggity Monkeez January 25, 2005