ramonmercado
CyberPunk
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- Aug 19, 2003
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Yes. The landlords of the flat next door to mine are that mix of cunning and thick as mince, sly and stupid; they are probably the only people I know who I truly and actively hate. My dad used to call such intelligence 'money-clever,' or 'money-canny'. He'd been brought up on a farm in a rural community and I think the phrase was a common one back then - used to describe people who's intelligence only ever surfaced in the pursuit of their own appetites.
Ah yes: peasant cunning.