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You're not as stupid as you look, or sound, or our best testing indicates.
— The Simpsons · 1989
Behind the line
What it means
Our 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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