Reddit user TheGlen made a great post about Gandalf being a fighter not a wizard.

Gandalf lied, he was no wizard. He was clearly a high level fighter that had put points in the Use Magic Device skill allowing him to wield a staff of wizardry. All of his magic spells he cast were low level, easily explained by his ring of spell storing and his staff. For such an epic level wizard he spent more time fighting than he did casting spells. He presented himself as this angelic demigod, when all he was a fighter with carefully crafted PR.

His combat feats were apparent. He has proficiency in the long sword, but he also is a trained dual weapon fighter. To have that level of competency to wield both weapons you are looking at a dexterity of at least 17, coupled with the Monkey Grip feat to be able to fight with a quarter staff one handed in his off hand at that. Three dual weapon fighting feats, monkey grip, and martial weapon proficiency would take up 5 of his 7 feats as a wizard, far too many to be an effective build. That's why when he faced a real wizard like Sarumon, he got stomped in a magic duel. He had taken no feats or skills useful to a wizard. If he had used his sword he would have carved up Sarumon without effort.

The spells he casts are all second level or less. He casts spook on Bilbo to snap him out his ring fetish. When he's trapped on top of Isengard an animal messenger spell gets him help. Going into Moria he uses his staff to cast light. Facing the Balrog all he does is cast armor. Even in the Two Towers his spells are limited. Instead of launching a fireball into the massed Uruk Hai he simply takes 20 on a nature check to see when the sun will crest the hill and times his charge appropriately. Sarumon braced for a magic duel over of the body of Theodin, which Gandalf gets around with a simple knock on the skull. Since Sarumon has got a magic jar cast on Theodin, the wizard takes the full blow as well breaking his concentration. Gandalf stops the Hunters assault on him by parrying two missile weapons, another fighter feat, and then casting another first level spell in heat metal. Return of the King has Gandalf using light against the Nazgul and that is about it. When the trolls, orcs and Easterlings breach the gates of Minos Tiroth does he unload a devastating barrage of spells at the tightly pack foes? No, he charges a troll and kills it with his sword. That is the action of a fighter, not a wizard.

Look at how he handled the Balrog, not with sorcery but with skill. The Balrog approached and Gandalf attempts to intimidate him, clearly a fighter skill. After uses his staff to cast armor, a first level spell, Gandalf then makes a engineering check, another fighter skill, to see that the bridge will not support the Balrog's weight. When the Balrog took a step, the bridge collapsed under its weight. Gandalf was smart enough to know the break point, and positioned himself just far enough back not to go down with the Balrog. The Balrog's whip got lucky with a critical hit knocking Gandalf off balance. The whole falling part was due to a lack of over sight on behalf of the party, seriously how does a ranger forget to bring a rope? Gandalf wasn't saved by divine forces after he hit the bottom, he merely soaked up the damage because he was sitting on 20d10 + constitution bonus worth of hit points.

So why the subterfuge? Because it was the perfect way to lure in his enemies. Everybody knows in a fight to rush the wizard before he can do too much damage. But if the wizard is actually an epic level fighter, the fools rush to their doom. Gandalf, while not a wizard, is extremely intelligent. He knows how his foes would respond. Nobody wants to face a heavily armored dwarf, look at Gimli's problem finding foes to engage in cave troll fight. But an unarmored wizard? That's the target people seek out, before he can use his firepower on you. If the wizard turns out to actually be a high level fighter wearing robes, then he's already in melee when its his turn and can mop the floor with the morons that charged him. So remember fighters, be like Gandalf. Fight smarter, not harder.

Mind Blown!

The Idea is, that Pinky is in fact, a genius who lives with the insane Brain to keep him in check and to make sure he doesn't do anything too dangerous. There is a good amount of evidence to support this in the show.

We see a few examples, starting with the introduction song. There is a line that goes, "One is a genius, the other is insane, pinky and the brain." We already see a few hints from this. During the course of the show, there is never a question that pinky is not insane. An imbecile? Most certainly, but we never have a reason to believe he is insane. On the other hand, Brain is clearly insane - he is constantly trying to devise ways to take over the world. If Brain is infact insane, this leaves pinky to be, well, the genius

The biggest piece of evidence however, comes from an episode where Brain creates a machine to make Pinky smart. Pinky steps into it and begins to massively outsmart Brain - winning game shows, correcting him, and at the end of the episode - He shows how Brain's machine is inherently flawed and doesn't work at all. Almost immediately afterwords he returns to his bumbling self.

The begs the obvious question - if the machine never worked, how was Pinky so smart, and able to actually point out this design error? Simple, he is infact the genius.

Finally, there's the fact that Brain's inventions almost never work - they blow up in his face, and when they do work, they are sabotaged by none other than Pinky.

There's several more examples within the show, but when you look at the whole it becomes very convincing, that Brain is in fact being watched by Pinky, who is playing off the whole affair.

Borrowed from Ginnex on Reddit.com

It's not about priorities. It's about budget allocation and constraints. There is a common misunderstanding between many governmental systems, charities, and other non-profit organizations.

The public tends to think that their school has X amount of money and that money is in one big pile that they can spend on anything. The public assumes that teachers, overhead, and operating costs should get paid first, then schools can buy fancy new computers, renovate buiildings, etc...

Unfortunately, that's not how budgets work 99% of the time. School districts often receive large gifts and grants from individuals and organizations that they are contractually obligated to spend on certain goals/objects. Joe Schmo didn't give Y school district $1,000,000 to spend on anything; he gave them $1,000,000 under the conditions that the money is spent on school equipment for the kids (i.e. laptops, desktops, textbooks, playground equipment, etc...). He can exclude or include any specific item or place for the funds to be used. School districts occasionally have local taxes levied for them. For example, my area (about three school districts) imposes a 1% additional sales tax on its citizens. The 1% collected HAS to be used on school renovations, period. The money cannot be used for anything else. In a similar manner, one of the three school districts is putting to vote a tax that would raise property assessment tax by $0.20/$1,000. That money HAS TO BE spent on upgrading school playground equipment, and the school has outlined a 7+ year plan of fund implementation for specific schools within the district.

Borrowed from MisfitMonk on Reddit