I've also been wary of "growth hacking" - that start-uppy flavour of marketing oriented towards email, virals and A/B testing (I think because of the
smart-arse Silicon Valley venture-capitalistcultureit'softenbundledwith).
Gradually I got to the front and met the time-keeper who booked all the lads in so I calmly gave him Joey's number, 572, he looked up at me and blurted out in a broad Scouse accent: "Who the *** do you think you are with your London accent and
smart-arse suit?
And also against everyone else who said he was too much of a
smart-arse for his own good.
BBC comedy has become a closed shop, run by
smart-arse elitists and aimed largely at minority audiences.
The 58 year-old admits he was a '
smart-arse' pupil at King's School, Worcester, showing off with his spelling ability.
So Dr House and his team of
smart-arse med-experts (including Billy from Neighbours and Neil from Dead Poet's Society) sat around brainstorming and firing out sophisticated medical jargon like Aeztronam and Vancomycin, which sound so dazzling in a quick American accent.Try it.
In the chapter on Liverpool the popular guide reports: 'Derided and dismissed for decades as a city full of
smart-arse scallies who would as soon nick your car as tell you a joke, Liverpool has done a wonderful job of dispelling this largely ridiculous reputation and is eager to arrive as the belle of the ball in 2008, when the city will be the European Capital of Culture.'
And it added that Liverpool had done a wonderful job in throwing off its "largely ridiculous reputation" as a city "full of
smart-arse scallies who would as soon nick your car as tell you a joke".
A couple of months ago whizzkid Melbourne architect Sean Godsell was apparently getting it from the local architectural institute for daring in the press to slag off '
Smart-arse architecture that shocks you once', referring, I gather, to some recent proto-blob architecture in his city.
It's a
smart-arse one-liner, but it's a simple wisdom that has clearly been lost on Attheraces, if Brad Higgins'
Some
smart-arse philosopher once said "Hell is other people," which is not strictly true.
However I am in no position to be a
smart-arse here because I too have recently been a guest on the show ( it hasn't been shown yet) and when I was asked, "In Science, what is O2?", I replied "Water".