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Re:Jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years by IgorPartola on Monday March 28, 2022 @11:22PM (#30838401)
In these jokes, is the word intellectual meant to be a substitute for “smartass”?
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Re:Jokes that have made people laugh for thousands of years by mod on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @02:14AM (#30839394)
Given some context (another top comment has some jokes from the Philogelos: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30838277 ), I believe it actually means student.

The jokes often reference their parents or classmates.

It made the joke above make sense to me, once I realized that.

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