Having known Icebear for all these many years I can say that in my humble opinion a little less than half of Icebear is intelligent, the majority of Icebear is caring, helpful, and emotionally balanced.... so I'd have to disagree with your assessment that most of Icebear was intelligent...As far as I can tell, this is still true today.
Having read Herb's posts for these few years, I can say that Herb regards himself very very highly, lacks insight, considers his sophistication of thought to be superior to all those 'other' little BY people, lacks depth of thought, and simply enjoys that feeling that dramatically overestimating his intellectual horsepower gives him while equally enjoying the feeling that dramatically underestimating the intellectual horsepower of others gives him... As far as I can tell, this is still true today.
Your Ol' Pal Boo