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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:45 PM
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I'm very, very dirty.. ask me anything BORING!!
I'll try to give you the hard facts, straight up. Nosiree, won't beat around the bush at all...
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MissouriTeacher Donating Member (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:46 PM
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1. How are you today?
Is that boring enough?
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:51 PM
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4. I'm super! Thanks for asking!
</BigGayAl>
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:47 PM
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2. Explain chaos theory. nt
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:53 PM
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5. Just think
metaphysics meets Mr. Wizard.

But Chaos Theory is hardly boring...
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:55 PM
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8. Eh, I'm an English major...
I'm a geek in different ways. :)

Cat
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:56 PM
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9. I'm a philospher
I'm a metageek.
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:58 PM
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11. You're a geek to the dork power!
But geeks are hot. :loveya:
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:00 PM
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12. Cat is correct.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:01 PM
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14. priceless, dork!
Yeah, anyone who's seen my stupid word-play tendencies on exhibit here in the Lounge must know I'm beyond hopelessly verbal-section geeky.
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:03 PM
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15. now if you only lived in Phoenix and were single...
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:06 PM
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16. Will be in Tucson
around the holidays... :P

Actually, I made the trip over to Phoenix (Paradise Valley) from my grandparents' place in Tucson one Christmas break to visit a friend - nice little drive, and scenic, for someone who sees only trees all the time at home.
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:08 PM
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18. [Sigh] I wish I could see trees. Did you go up to the Painted
Desert?
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:13 PM
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21. no, we just hung around
PV and did alot of drugs. We were some crazy kids back then. I'd kill to get up to Sedona at some point, though.
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:14 PM
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23. Drugs are bad m'kay...:)
Actually Sedona is pretty dull.
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:06 PM
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17. Verbal section, eh? GEEK-OFF!!
780 here. (But 430 math, isn't that sad? I'm a bit one-sided.)

Cat
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:09 PM
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19. I got a 27. took the ACTs instead.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:12 PM
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20. We tied on verbal!
I managed a 440 math score. But it got me into college, and I even got a mensa card to put in my wallet for strictly vanity purposes.

Yay verbal section geeks!
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:13 PM
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22. HA HA! Me too!!
I am also a Mensa member. I like the word games in the newsletter. :)

I would have done slightly better on the math, but I was drunk when I took the SAT's (true story.)
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:15 PM
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24. On the mensa IQ test, is there math?
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:17 PM
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26. I qualified with my SAT scores
Don't know what their usual test is like.
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:17 PM
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27. Yes, there is..
not like on the SAT's though. An IQ test is supposed to measure your ABILITY to learn, so they have sections like "spatial relations" and "mechanical aptitude". It measures math more indirectly. It's been a while since I took the test, but I think there are some straight math questions on there too--not too sure. They can't be too difficult, at any rate, because I never would have passed.

Cat
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:20 PM
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30. I would not be surprised...I got a puzzle book by the
mensa people and found dozens of errors.
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:15 PM
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25. Wow. You give me a solid run for my money
on geekiness, Cat. Who's got the shin extension surgery? I need more HEIGHT dammit!
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:19 PM
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28. Oh, I'm a hardcore geek, not to be trifled with...
There are some geek realms I don't venture into though--stuff like chaos theory, quantum physics, and Star Trek. :) Not because I WOULDN'T, just because it doesn't interest me. (Although I've read several Robert Persig novels, if that redeems me at all.) :)

Cat
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:23 PM
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31. I bet you'd really dig
James Gleick's "Chaos." It really is more philosophy than math/physics, at least in my read. But then I guess philosophy ain't everyone's cup o' geek tea, either.
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:25 PM
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33. Hmm, if it's readable, perhaps I'll check it out...
My problem with that sort of field (and with math, as well) is that I'm fixated on details--which is what makes me good at my job and good with words and with editing. It's hard for me to grasp the larger picture when it's all theoretical--I tend to get bogged down and then I'm lost.

Cat
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:31 PM
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35. That's the brilliant thing about chaos
you fixate on a detail, and get a happy thrill when the "aha!" moment arrives and you realize that your chosen detail is much larger and more encompassing of other seemingly unrelated phenomena than you'd have imagined. If that even begins to make any sense.
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catpower2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:35 PM
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36. Mm hmm!
I think I know what you mean--I have had that "aha!" moment with math, actually, a couple of times in my life. I'll check out the book and get back to you. :)

Cat
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ProudGerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:48 PM
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3. I got a tough one
How is it that this country came to the point where an election between an imbecilic narcissist who never accomplished anything by himself his entire life, and a proven statesman who would be merely taken over the reigns and continuing the nice ride we were on even end up close enough to steal?
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:53 PM
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6. America, in many ways,
is a deeply stupid nation.
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dorktv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:00 PM
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13. A stupid media, and a really badly run campaign by a guy
who refuses to utilize the greatest politician of the times.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:54 PM
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7. How many cups of tea do you get from one tea bag??
:)
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 04:57 PM
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10. is this a trick question?
Edited on Sun Aug-17-03 04:57 PM by short bus president
another underpants-style "dutch oven" kinda thing?
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latebloomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:19 PM
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29. Tell me everything you ate for the last 3 days
Like everyone I know who's on a DIET!

Why do they think that's so scintillating?

SNORE!!
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short bus president Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:25 PM
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32. Lessee here
yesterday I had barbecue with a side of fried okra and some hush puppies, and it was so tasty and so filling, that's all I had. Today I've had some warmed pita bread with baba ghannouj, and I'm not sure what dinner will be. Oh, and my morning coffee doesn't count, does it?

:boring:
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latebloomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-17-03 05:28 PM
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34. Mmmm--tasty and concise
Actually a lot less boring than "Well, for breakfast I had one egg and a piece of dry whole-wheat toast, then for lunch I had cottage cheese and a salad with diet dressing, then I had an apple for a snack..."-- AARGHH!
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