Seams I might in part be the cause of (#3186) Remove easter egg “You are smarter than the average bear …” by pauby · Pull Request #3276 · chocolatey/choco
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/09/11
Only having really learned to speak English starting in my late teens, I never got the “smarter than the average bear” reference, so I filed what I thought was a bug early 2019: [Wayback/Archive] “You must be smarter than the average bear…” after upgrading to 7zip.install v18.6 and notepadplusplus.install v7.6.2 · Issue #1700 · chocolatey/choco which last year got this useful comment
I had this for several packages now, since I am updating them daily.
I am assuming there is a way to remove versions, which leads to this error until there is a new update.
It was confirmed this summer from
I’m smarter than the average bear at least once or twice a month. I think it might be packages which are pulled back and you happen to have installed that version
The bug got referenced this summer from [Wayback/Archive] Remove warning message about “smarter than the average bear” · Issue #3186 · chocolatey/choco.
This in turn lead to [Wayback/Archive] (#3186) Remove easter egg “You are smarter than the average bear …” by pauby · Pull Request #3276 · chocolatey/choco
That made me realise that for large groups of English speaking people “smarter than the average bear” would actually be a well known thing.
So I searched and learned a thing or two:
- [Wayback/Archive] Big Picture Classic – “Smarter Than The Average Bear” – YouTube
- Yogi Bear – Wikipedia
Besides often speaking in rhyme, Yogi Bear had a number of catchphrases, including ….. his favorite self-promotion (“I’m smarter than the av-er-age bear!”), .…. Another characteristic of Yogi was his deep and silly voice. … Yogi would also often use puns in his speech and had a habit of pronouncing large words with a long vocal flourish.
[Wayback/Archive] And Today’s Idiom Is …: Smarter Than the Average Bear
I came across a fun idiom today that I had to share with you … Smarter Than the Average Bear. All it really means is that the person being talked about is smarter than average. But, you may be asking where the “bear” came from. That would be Yogi Bear, a vintage cartoon character from the 20th Century.
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The Wikipedia entry prompted me to listen to the very short extract [Wayback/Archive] Yogi Bear – Because I’m smarter than the avarage bear. Hey, Hey, Hey. – YouTube.
In retrospect, his odd sounding voice makes it hard for me to understand him right now, so that would have been even harder when I was young (and had much more severe hearing issues).
Query: [Wayback/Archive] smarter than the average bear – Google Search
The change:
- [Wayback/Archive] (#3186) Remove easter egg “You are smarter than the average bear …” by pauby · Pull Request #3276 · chocolatey/choco
It’s fun, and it’s been there for some time, but from issue #3186 the humour maybe doesn’t travel well. Rather than adding a feature just to turn this off, I don’t think there is anything lost by removing it.
- [Wayback/Archive] (#3186) Remove easter egg “You are smarter than the average bear …” by pauby · Pull Request #3276 · chocolatey/choco: files
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