In general, FOTs are common. I would say that 96% of the entire population of all people is common. And so that gives an FOT a 4% chance to be uncommon. However, if an FOT is uncommon, there is a 50% chance that the FOT is uncommon in a way that I'm sure no FOT would want to be uncommon. Sure, you are all geniuses. Give me a break.
Of course, that's assuming that FOTs are representative of all people, which they aren't. I would hypothesize that FOTs are average or slightly above average, on average. I, however, find average and slightly above average to be common. That's because I am most of the time only exposed to average and slighly above average people. I rarely am around super above average and uncommon people. Nothing is wrong with being common. Most everyone you ever meet is average. That's okay. Just be yourself.
And try to have your own opinions and put them into your own words, rather than barfing up what you heard Tom say on the radio to/about me. It is funny when Tom says what he says, but it makes me sad that such an uncommon person can't even rephrase someone else's thoughts. I think you are jealous because Tom takes my calls and you are so much more interesting, which is the only reason I can think of to explain this insane obsession with me. But then I wonder, why should one try to rephrase anything when one is just saying the same thing that's been said for thousands of years? Maybe it isn't jealous robot syndrome. Maybe you've just given up?
Tom is above average in being funny. I expected FOTs to be a collection of watered down versions of Tom, at least with respect to funniness and having an interesting world view. I never said I wasn't common. Of course I'm common! I go out of my way to be more average than I really am. However, being thrown into an common hate pit is so very dull! It would be much more interesting to be thrown into Tom's REAL Hate Pit, although it would crush my stone heart into a million tiny pieces.
I do not think all FOTs are common. Some of them are very interesting. I don't want to hurt anyone's street cred by saying who I think is cool, but if you are worried about being one of them, then you probably aren't. Any FOT that is offended by the idea of being common is probably the most common kind of person. Not common as it relates to a high frequency of similar people, but common in the low kind of way.
So put that in your pipe and smoke it!
Lovingly Yours,
Julie
