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<\/p>\nWho are The Stupids?<\/b><\/p>\n
Well-known bon-vivant Jim Daugherty and man-about-town Stuart Yaniger.<\/p>\n
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How did this whole mess get started?<\/b><\/p>\n
Back in the Stone Ages of cyber-wine-geek history, Prodigy had a proprietary bulletin board system that was quite the place to hang out on. Writers like Robert Parker, Harvey Steinman, Dan Berger, wine intellects like Art Caputi, future cyber-personalities like Robert Callahan and Mark Squires… it was a pretty fun time. JD and SY were always happy to throw a little gas on the fire and, after some time, found that their basic food and wine philosophies (if not tastes) were pretty well-aligned. A few particularly well-lubricated weekends provided some sick entertainment, and the concept of The Stupids was fertilized.<\/p>\n
What were the defining moments of Stupidity?<\/b><\/p>\n
Oh, there have been so many! JD covering every square inch of Steve Ein’s newly-decorated bathroom with red puke (recycled Grange and La Mouline), then mooning a 10-year-old little girl. The boys getting into a street fight at midnight near Lulu’s during Gay Pride Weekend in San Francisco. Being totally toasted at a convention of midgets and dwarves. Teaching Stephane Ogier the meaning of “cheese-eating surrender monkey.” But mostly, things like four-course meals with top wines to accompany ’49ers games.<\/p>\n
Why does The Stupids website exist?<\/b><\/p>\n
To stroke our tiny little egos, to provide a still, small voice in the vast wasteland of wine criticism and cooking geeks. Some people have even told us that we had something useful to say.<\/p>\n
Two guys who cook together. Ummm…?<\/b><\/p>\n
While we do get “knowing” looks from the people at farmers markets and frou-frou grocery stores when we shop, and we lived in the Bay Area, we are<\/u> Hetero He-Men. You don’t have to be gay to be a male who’s fussy about tomatoes. Not that there’s anything wrong with it.<\/p>\n
Some biographical information, please?<\/b><\/p>\n
Jim Daugherty grew up in Napa drinking the legendary wines of the ’70s. He’s a retired adult film star. Three kids, four times married, and lives in a van down by the river. JD is most famous for walking away with a blind tasting put on by Robert Parker a few years back. As he never tires of reminding everyone in earshot, he scored 24 out of 27 correct identifications in that tasting.<\/p>\n
Stuart Yaniger is a Baltimore native and long-time California resident, now living in Arizona. By profession, he’s a product development specialist. He’s most famous for being the first American judge at the Concours Aux Vins de C\u00f4te-R\u00f4tie. Thrice married (OK, he and JD are difficult to live with), with a 19 year old son. He has a supremely talented wife, elegant, sophisticated, and intelligent beyond belief, who coincidentally is the Webmaster of this site…<\/p>\n
How can I become a Stupid?<\/b><\/p>\n
This is one of those “questions we doubt anyone has ever asked.”<\/p>\n
Who are The Stupids? Well-known bon-vivant Jim Daugherty and man-about-town Stuart Yaniger. How did this whole mess get started? Back in the Stone Ages of cyber-wine-geek history, Prodigy had a proprietary bulletin board system that was quite the place to hang out on. Writers like Robert Parker, Harvey Steinman, Dan Berger, wine intellects like Art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2053","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","has-post-title","no-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2blXF-x7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2053\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.the-stupids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}