[geeks] Mensa

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
>Date: 2007/05/11 Fri AM 09:02:31 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Mensa

>Aaron Finley wrote:
>> As someone with a tested IQ of over 150 (way back in elementary
>> school, so I imagine I've lost a bunch of that now), I find the 130
>> cutoff for Mensa to be extremely pedestrian.
>
>You know what?  I'd probably wager that most people in here have 
>well-above-average intelligence.  Otherwise the discourse in here would 
>go far less *ahem* smoothly.

Being confined to on-line exchanges, we don't have a chance to play games like "pull my finger" or, say, send "stink" between two houses via a conduit... And many on this list (I fear), have had their share of "Redneck" moments, when you look at your buddies and say "watch this" and come within spitting distance of the after-life. Mine was pushing a crimson up a staircase with Caleb a few years ago, or sliding an E450 down the basement stairs on it's top (the stairs were carpeted and there was no one to help me ;^) - then agin, maybe we ARE smart, since we survived... It's a coin toss, really.

Lionel