#smart alec

[mytardisisparked]

Police Officer: Does the FBI keep tabs on UFO sightings?

Fox Mulder, head of the FBI's UFO Department: No.

#the x files #i love mulder sm what a geek #smart alec #Fox Mulder

[angleshades]

"The actual wages of a first-class gamekeeper may be no more than a pound a week. A system has sprung up by which he receives, in addition to wages, many recompenses in kind, while his slender pay is fortified by the tips of the sportsman to whom he ministers.... He has a fair chance to make money by dog-breeding and exhibiting. Then there is vermin and rabbit money which he earns as extra pay, and useful sums may flow into his pocket from the hunt funds.... To rabbits he may help himself freely, also to rooks and pigeons... All kinds of supplies he secures, if not freely, at reduced prices.... He will beg choice buds from rose-growers, and a year or two later the passer-by may be tempted to offer half-a-crown for the fine roses of his little plot..."

#alec scudder #smart alec #resourcefulness #decidedly intelligent #he refused the tip #maurice 1987 #maurice #em forster #e.m. forster

[awesomefringey]

Thinking about the grapejuice lyrics where Harry says "You’re always there so don’t overthink ,I’m so old and wise and/in things". And once during an interview Harry called Zayn, Liam and Louis - No show, Wolfie, and Alec. And we always assumed that he calls Louis, Alec because of Smart Alec. Smart Alec is a person whos always "Know it all". And that's exactly what Harry refers to here. Now I wonder how many times has Louis given Harry the "M older and I know it Harold" lecture. lol

So according to Harry, Louis is Smart Alec and according to Louis in THE Paris interview Harry is Dangerous Dave.

We cracked the code!

#ask #i like the theory a lot #lol #smart alec #dangerous dave #grapejuice lyrics #grapejuice

[great-art-and-a-purple-tongue]

Well, I just learned the origin of the phrase "smart alec" and I never want to use it again.

It was literally created by New York cops for people who didn't bribe them enough.

#acab #etymology #smart alec

[letterboxd-loggd]

Smart Alec (1951) John Guillermin

June 25th 2023

#smart alec #1951 #john guillermin #peter reynolds #leslie dwyer #kynaston reeves #edward lexy #charles hawtrey #mercy haystead #david hurst #david keir

[sensitivehandsomeactionman]

#Alec McDowell #Jensen Ackles #Dark Angel #jensen in dark angel #alec #da 2.06 #danistuff #cutest smart alec

[schmweed]

#David Tennant #DI Alec Hardy #Broadchurch #my gifs #The looks. The long long looks of heavy sorrow that he gives her over and over #He knows her life is about to change horrifyingly irreversibly forever #Making sure he tells her she did good. #And poor Ellie is smart enough to be alarmed! #The tenderness and kindness is overwhelming -- when I saw this scene it just took my breath away #and the kicker is this tenderness? #This incredible sweeping gentle kindness? #It is NOTHING compared to the tenderness we watch as he breaks the news to her! #As he continues to be there for her for the rest of the episode. #Alec Hardy is the KINDEST soul in the entirety of Broadchurch

[batri-jopa]

Some tasty bits

#maurice 1914 #I love tasty suggestiveness😋 #''bright brown eyes'' #''now he knew very well what he wanted with the garden boy'' #and the ''too smart to be straight'' sounds freaking funny today🤭 though I'm quite sure this was not the case 100 years ago #em forster #maurice and alec #maurice hall

[ageofthegeekbrother]

The leverage team will have the most difficult part of a con that everyone claims is impossible to pull off and go ‘oh yeah I’m sure Hardison can do that’

#leverage #alec hardison #I LOVE HIM SM OKAY #HES SO SMART AND CAPABLE!! HES SAVED THEIR ASSES SO MANY TIMES!!!!! #🥰🥰🥰

[vivitalks]

It doesn't make much sense that he and Hardison understand each other this well. On paper, they couldn't be less alike. Give Eliot a face to punch over a code to crack any day. He likes things simple: if you're stronger than the other guy, he goes down and you don't. In Eliot's line of work, the hard way is the only way to learn. Nothing about this bizarre triangular dynamic of theirs is simple. And yet, in spite of that, Hardison just…gets it. Even when Eliot kind of doesn't really get it, Hardison gets it. Parker gets it. They don't ask him to change. They just show that he fits, exactly as he is. (Or: a morning with Eliot, Hardison, and Parker.)

some more leverage ot3 :)

#eliot spencer #alec hardison #parker leverage #leverage #leverage fic #fic #my fic #god i wish i knew if that ot3 had a real ship name #i'm gonna go with a tried and true: #leverage ot3 #that seems right #i am so obsessed with my funky little blorbos #this specific iteration of them #you ever just be so incredibly right and intelligent and smart and correct about something #me with aro eliot <33 #ok goodnightttttttttttt #well not goodnight but i am going to go watch more leverage lmao #season 4 let's dance #stuff #i wrote half of this on my phone last night after trying and failing to fall asleep #the other half on my phone at work today after my kid left for the day #shoutout to mobile docs gotta be one of my favorite genders

[lover-of-the-starkindler]

Four Characters

Tagged by @castingmysilver- thank you!

Let people make assumptions about you based on four fictional characters you relate to.

Mine are:

Emily Webster (Emily of Deep Valley by Maud Heart Lovelace)

Margaret Hale (North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell)

Kate Sutton (The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope)

Susan Pevensie (Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis)

I dare say none of these will be very surprising but here we are

#a side of smart alec and a pinch of honesty

[mytardisisparked]

Police Officer: Does the FBI keep tabs on UFO sightings?

Fox Mulder, head of the FBI's UFO Department: No.

#the x files #i love mulder sm what a geek #smart alec #Fox Mulder

[angleshades]

"The hole in the ceiling is worse, sir?"

*fiddles with hat shiftily*

🪜

screencap @aworldofgoldfish

#he didn't fix it #he made it worse #that's my theory #smart alec #badboy #sweetest little hole #sorry lol #why is my house falling down #russet room #alec scudder #rupert graves #maurice #maurice 1987 #em forster #e.m. forster

[lemissingmask]

[ID: Sketch in hues of red of Hardison and Eliot standing next to each other behind a barrier. Hardison is holding a smartphone in both hands and looking at Eliot, who is leaning slightly away and looking at the phone. End ID]

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Day 2: Hardison and Eliot and a phone

#leverage #alec hardison #eliot spencer #april art #otp: for morale #eliot is probably musing on how he could definitely snap that phone #presumably his reaction to the first time smart phones came out and he ended up accidentally in a selfie

[a-flappy-bat]

I had a stupid crossover thought today involving Cortana and Jesse and it settled into this nonsense

#spartan #jesse faden #and her pocket consciousness/ super smart alec computer Ai #Casper Darling #Dr. darling #isn’t so different from Dr. Halsey ? #remedy control #and Halo #cross over #my art #I know it’s got issues XD I just wanted to color #and didn’t want to ruin a good sketch #no helmet because

[angelwiththeblue-box]

actually the rashomon job is genius because when nate tells his side, its the most in character telling of the night. parker is awkward and cold, but shes good at what she does. hardison offers coswell a tissue and is shown to still be considerate, sophie doesnt flinch when coswell ‘interrogates’ her, there are moments where all nate knows is the four sides, and yet his version shows the most human side of each of the four of them.

#rewatching leverage #i love this show its so smart #val rambles #leverage #nathan ford #sophie devereaux #parker leverage #alec hardison #eliot spencer #leverage ot3