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A triumphant tale of good over evil Yesterday in class New Girl gave a presentation, and then Mr. Knowitall asked her something about some detail on her handout, something that wasn't the point of her presentation at all. At first she didn't understand what he was talking about, and then finally she did, but didn't really have anything to say about it since that wasn't what her talk was about. Mr. Knowitall did the same thing after the other two presentations. He didn't comment about the main point of the talk, he just found some little detail to comment on or question. After class, the professor (who I'll call Big Professor) said to Mr. Knowitall that being a detail-oriented person is fine, but nitpicking about something and missing the whole point of the paper "won't make you popular". Yes, she said that to him. I was practically bouncing up and down I was so happy. Finally, a professor who isn't affected by Mr. Knowitall's buttkissing abilities! Then Big Professor told a story about how at the Freptology Institute during the summer, some guy came into a talk late, and then at the end of the talk raised his hand and said, "I have a problem with [some little detail] in example 5" and the speaker said, "Dude, I ain't got no example 5. You picked up the wrong freakin' handout when you came in late, and then you sat there picking apart the details and you didn't even listen to my talk to know that you had the wrong handout." The moral of Big Professor's story, and what Mr. Knowitall should have gotten from this conversation, is that picking apart the details doesn't make up for the fact that you can't see the Big Picture, so please shut up. I told Mr. Pooh about this when I got home but said that I don't think Mr. Knowitall Got It. Mr. Pooh said, "Tell him to fuck off. Then he'll Get It." But Mr. Knowitall wouldn't Get It even if his favorite professor and all his classmates told him to fuck off. Because the Big Picture (being that everyone hates him) eludes him.
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