On the topic of "asshat", there was that episode of Futurama where the Professor made a top hat that could make a chimp be extremely smart. In the end, the chimp threw away the hat because his newfound intelligence alienated him from other people, but was forced with the decision to put the hat back on in order to save the crew from certain destruction. As the chimp attempted to put on the hat (at this point he wasn't smart anymore), one of the places he chose for the hat was his ass-- of course everyone laughed at that. That's my personal etymology for the term "asshat", someone who's so dumb they'd attempt to put a hat on their ass.
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Date: 2003-06-03 03:41 pm (UTC)