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    Mensa

    Anyone else a member ?

    I bet AtW is, having passed the test in Russia .....
    If you find this post offensive, please insert "Chan" before and "tho" after, then it should be OK.

    Sometimes I almost feel just like a human being - Elvis Costello

    #2
    Originally posted by Chantho View Post
    Anyone else a member ?
    I've thought about it, but then wondered what would be the point.

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      #3
      Originally posted by Chantho View Post
      Anyone else a member ?

      I bet AtW is, having passed the test in Russia .....
      Originally posted by Some other bloke;
      I wouldn't want to be a member of any club that would have me as a member.
      ..
      ‎"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."

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        #4
        Originally Posted by Some other bloke;
        I wouldn't want to be a member of any club that would have me as a member.
        Groucho Marx
        It's Deja-vu all over again!

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          #5
          My guess at a few here, based on some old posts:

          OwlHoot
          wendigo
          Gonzo
          PRC1964

          But I'm prepared to be proved wrong.

          Miss Marple said that she was invited but wouldn't join a club that would have her as a member.
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            #6
            Originally posted by KathyWoolfe View Post
            Groucho Marx
            And Miss Marple!
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              #7
              I assume from your question that you are?

              I took the MENSA exam many years ago (I was about 20), and passed.

              They sent me many newsletters full of self-congratulatory puffery. Invited me to 'conventions' where I could hob-nob with other big heads and obsessives.

              In the end I employed the Groucho defense.

              UK MENSA is mostly full of boring big heads and awful people.

              You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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                #8
                Atw has passed the Russian Mensa test which includes:

                - cake making - 4534 hours
                - physical jerks - 345 hours
                - how to boil an egg - 234 hours
                - basic arithmetic - 16,756 hours
                - reading'n'writing - 346,456 hours
                Hard Brexit now!
                #prayfornodeal

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
                  My guess at a few here, based on some old posts:

                  OwlHoot
                  wendigo
                  Gonzo
                  PRC1964

                  But I'm prepared to be proved wrong.

                  Miss Marple said that she was invited but wouldn't join a club that would have her as a member.
                  Good God no.

                  I'm bright enough to know not to join Mensa. The same applies to the Freemasons.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by PRC1964 View Post
                    Good God no.

                    I'm bright enough to know not to join Mensa. The same applies to the Freemasons.
                    I apologise - it must have been a comment saying "I could join, but wouldn't" or something like that.
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