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In his first short, Broken Leghorn, Foghorn tried to kill the little guy!
The picture certainly should be there. Why didn't hyou discuss it on the talk page first? As I said i nthe edit summary, Stevenson being called an egghead was perhaps the most important instance of the use of the word. The caption does not in fact identify Stevenson as actually being an egghead. If you would like to put up a picture of Nixon, be my guest. Zweifel 20:24, 16 December 2006 (UTC) --- a Democrat who would love to have avoided Nixon.
"In the slang of the United States, egghead was" ... a look at the inter-wiki links shows rather obviously that similar terms exist in other countries and other languages. It may have a special history in the U.S. that is worth mentioning but the article should start so self-deceptive. Guidod ( talk) 22:23, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
I personally feel the the "was" isn't really the case here, as I can recall the notion of referring people who are too intelligent as "eggheads" → Aza Toth 23:48, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Shortly after the campaign was over, Louis Bromfield, a popular novelist of right-wing political persuasion, suggested that the word might someday find its way into dictionaries as follows:
I mean, do I really have to cite why this has been removed? "Subject to the old fashioned morality of Nietzsche which frequently leads him to jail or disgrace" is about as far removed from the "egghead" archetype as one could possibly be. I have no idea where Louis Bromfield got this nonsense from, but it is undeniably an opinion that has little to no connection with reality or even how "eggheads" are perceived in reality. I can understand the want for a clear definition of "egghead" but this is certainly not it. Who, other than Bromfield, in the history of creation has ever thought of a scholarly intellectual type as one prone to "jail or disgrace"? Seriously? Strange fringe opinions should not be stated on a wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.245.188.243 ( talk) 12:41, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
The usage of Eggheads is under discussion, see talk:Eggheads (TV series) -- 65.94.79.6 ( talk) 00:29, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Considering the existence of the British TV show concerning "eggheads", it seems that this isn't just US slang? -- 65.94.79.6 ( talk) 00:30, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
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In his first short, Broken Leghorn, Foghorn tried to kill the little guy!
The picture certainly should be there. Why didn't hyou discuss it on the talk page first? As I said i nthe edit summary, Stevenson being called an egghead was perhaps the most important instance of the use of the word. The caption does not in fact identify Stevenson as actually being an egghead. If you would like to put up a picture of Nixon, be my guest. Zweifel 20:24, 16 December 2006 (UTC) --- a Democrat who would love to have avoided Nixon.
"In the slang of the United States, egghead was" ... a look at the inter-wiki links shows rather obviously that similar terms exist in other countries and other languages. It may have a special history in the U.S. that is worth mentioning but the article should start so self-deceptive. Guidod ( talk) 22:23, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
I personally feel the the "was" isn't really the case here, as I can recall the notion of referring people who are too intelligent as "eggheads" → Aza Toth 23:48, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
Shortly after the campaign was over, Louis Bromfield, a popular novelist of right-wing political persuasion, suggested that the word might someday find its way into dictionaries as follows:
I mean, do I really have to cite why this has been removed? "Subject to the old fashioned morality of Nietzsche which frequently leads him to jail or disgrace" is about as far removed from the "egghead" archetype as one could possibly be. I have no idea where Louis Bromfield got this nonsense from, but it is undeniably an opinion that has little to no connection with reality or even how "eggheads" are perceived in reality. I can understand the want for a clear definition of "egghead" but this is certainly not it. Who, other than Bromfield, in the history of creation has ever thought of a scholarly intellectual type as one prone to "jail or disgrace"? Seriously? Strange fringe opinions should not be stated on a wikipedia page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.245.188.243 ( talk) 12:41, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
The usage of Eggheads is under discussion, see talk:Eggheads (TV series) -- 65.94.79.6 ( talk) 00:29, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
Considering the existence of the British TV show concerning "eggheads", it seems that this isn't just US slang? -- 65.94.79.6 ( talk) 00:30, 20 June 2013 (UTC)