Does reading books make you an intellectual?

My friend told this to me today. He was implying the name of an author but me and my friends were totally stumped and didn't know who he was talking about. Then he says "Oh, I'll just have to talk with (name of another friend) since he's an intellectual and knows this author" and yadda yadda. He's also black.

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I don't believe that 4channers are really primitive, I think it's really just a front they all put on for giggles.

Anyways, most of the stuff people discuss here is bestsellers. I found a book in my basement today called the "Handyman's Handbook", you won't find the same book on Google or Amazon -- I've tried. It's got over 800 neat little tidbits for handy little fix ups around the house.

Like a recipe book, almost. This of course, pre-dates the age of "For Dummies" books, the "Chicken Soup for Jackass's soul" era. As well as all that other modern rubbish literature, like "Atkins Diet" and other shit. Seriously, if you wanna know how to eat well, study the organs and biological insides of your body. You'll stop eating that McDonalds shit in an instant when you realize how much sodium one of their hamburgers has -- and actually know what Sodium does to the body.

5 grams a day is all you need, anything more on a regular basis and you're risking heart disease.