Common sense told the boy that the Emperor had no clothes.
Pity the same boy wasn't around to advise our leading Bankers not to buy (for huge unimaginable sums of money) useless WORTHLESS worthless pieces of paper which were nicely packaged - US sub prime mortgages.
I find common sense a most agreeable thing , have you noticed how many times so-called highly educated individualls have the opposite point of view when asked their opinion about a Subject in which they "qualified" as an Expert?. Thanks Lizzie for bringing it to my attention.