ARE YOU NOW OR HAVE YOU EVER BEEN A KNOW-IT-ALL?

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...and, do you regret it?

― depovera, Friday, 30 January 2004 10:41 (twenty-two years ago)

You do know this is ILX, don't you?

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 30 January 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

i, oddly, HATE know-it-alls while BLATANTLY being one myself.
except i give myself leeway because normally i do actually know it all (or most.
i must be quite an annoying person to be around?

― emjj, Friday, 30 January 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

HA! ILX to thread!

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Friday, 30 January 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

um apparently i don't know how to close brackets. damn.

― emjj, Friday, 30 January 2004 11:06 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, sometimes. but it's all relative, e.g. in my office I am certainly regarded as an irritating know-all about music, but I am an ignoramus basking in the reflected glory of many of the ppl who post to ILM.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 30 January 2004 11:39 (twenty-two years ago)

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of know it alls"

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 30 January 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I go to two pub quizzes a week. So, I probably am.

(on our quiz team, I'm the irritating London Underground know-all. Sadly, questions about it do not come up very often.)

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 30 January 2004 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I know everything that there is possible to know about me but I have never been asked a question, in a quiz setting, that this knowledge would become invaluable for.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 January 2004 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I generally go to 2 pub quizzes a week too, Caitlin. One is a league quiz and the other is yr standard come-along-on-the-day affair with big money prizes.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 30 January 2004 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

don't hesitate to TXT if a question about me comes up, anyone.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 30 January 2004 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Questionmaster: "and now it's time for the tie-breaker question! Norfolk 'n' Chance and the Oddballs, would you please each select a team member to come up here to the front and answer the question that I'm about to ask you..."

(there is a whistle of microphone and a scraping of chairs)

Questionmaster: "OK, you two, what is the correct pronunciation of the following Scottish surname?" (he holds up a piece of paper with GILLANDERS written on it)

Contestant #1 "Gillon-does?"

Contestant #2: "Gill- anders?"

Quizmaster: "I'm sorry, no, you're both incorrect. The actual answer is Gi-landers. Better luck next time! So the cash prize rolls over to next week".

Barman: "Time at the bar please!"

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 30 January 2004 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

When I was in elementary school my mom's friends used to ring her up to put annoying trivia questions to me because my answers were always right.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 30 January 2004 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

as a kid, definitely -- that's what you get for reading the encyclopedia. though i always thought "smartass" was a better word.

― the krza (krza), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

yes. i'm the only child of two professors. i was probably insufferable as a kid.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I kill--KILL--at jeopardy

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Honestly, who here isn't a know-it-all?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

As a small child I had very high 'virtual winnings' for Jeopardy etc.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

law school beat all of my know-it-all'ing outta me.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 30 January 2004 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)

god yeah.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 30 January 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

not that any of you would get it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 30 January 2004 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

hmmmm

― Surmounter, Thursday, 26 March 2009 15:04 (seventeen years ago)

The more that I find out, the more I know.

― Mark G, Thursday, 26 March 2009 15:06 (seventeen years ago)

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