It's Not All That Often...

...that I come up with a new concept. Something that is (to the best of my knowledge) completely my own idea and which covers unbroken ground is a rare and wonderous thing.

So, here is my new meme.

I want you to think about the top 5 stupidest things you've ever seen, heard, thought or done.

Put the list in order, with number one being the very, very, very stupidest thing you know of. It could be something someone did that you witnessed, something someone (or you) said or an idea that you've only heard about. Doesn't matter.

From here on, that's your list. Five things that mark the stupidest low points you know of.

Keep that list in your head, forever.

Now enters my new meme.

If, at any point in the future, you see, hear, think or do anything that supercedes those five things, you have to think of that new thing as:

Proto-stupid.

Proto-stupidity is any concept or action that is so profoundly ridiculous, idiotic or stupid that it actually leaves the average person's scale of dumb and comes before number one on a list of the stupidest ideas or actions know of up to that point.

I submit my thinking about this concept for over a half an hour as a prime candidate.