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You're not as stupid as you look, or sound, or our best testing indicates.
— Burns · The Simpsons
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker offers a compliment that is really an insult. Stacking looks, speech and formal testing as evidence, they concede the listener is slightly less foolish than every visible sign suggests. It is condescension dressed as approval, delivered with dry, superior detachment.
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