Total CMU Move
a total carnegie mellon university move (“total cmu move,” or “tcmum”), defined as prefacing an uber-intelligent question or statement with something to the effect of, “i know this is a dumb question,” or, “this is probably the stupidest thing you’ll hear today,” as some subtly patronizing way of letting everyone around you know you’re smarter than them — as though it were an utterance so far below the usual standards of your stunning intellect that you have to apologize for it.
pierre de fermat: “so i have this equation here, it’s kinda hard to solve… but it goes something like this, a^n + b^n = c^n…”
student: “uh, professor fermat, excuse me for sounding like a total idiot asking something as basic this, but it appears to me that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy that equation for any integer value of ‘n’ greater than two. or am i just like way off here?”
everyone thinking in unison: “total cmu move, dude.”
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