I saw something dumb. It was not just dumb, though.

No, it was very dumb. Very, very dumb. Incredibly dumb. Unbelievably dumb.

I told him he was “un-inspiringly dumb,” and was instantly proud of myself.

I think this phrase summons to mind a previously-imagined plateau of dumb, only to have a new man – undaunted by the limits of dumb, divinely commanded to go where no dumb had been before – dive off the deep end of this once-plateau, into the dark abyss that is the continental shelf of dumb.

As he sinks into the dark mirky mire, one is left only to stare and wonder… “How dumb can he be?”