Mys Terry wrote:
On 11 Apr 2006 09:58:25 -0700, wrote:
Oh yeah, sure, I'm dumb all right. No doubt about it. What's your IQ
Mys. Terry? What were your SAT scores? Ever been in Mensa? How much
enterprise-level software have you designed and developed? How
accomplished a musician you are (I'll give you the set list of the band
I play in, tell me how long it would take you to figure out and
recreate the keyboard parts and vocal arrangements to all the Yes, ELP,
Dream Theatre, Rush, material we cover, I'll give you a decade head
start.) (Sorry I made a few typos in my previous post in your "super
secret code," guess I was a little sloppy, I think your original
feeling was that I woud be baffled by your ingenious code and think it
was gibberish, when in fact, I "solved" it in about five minutes, like
I said, I was solving those since I think I was about eleven or
twelve.... okay, you got me, I transposed a few of the letters
incorrectly from the sheet I scribblingly solved it on into my post,
that's kind of beyond the point, oh yeah, I'm dumb.) Do you do the
Sunday NY Times crossword puzzles; how long does it take you, I'll race
you on one any week, any year, in fact that's what I often to on my pwc
on a Sunday, take the crossword to a puzzle and a pen in a dry bag to a
boating beach and do the puzzle in the sun, love to meet you out there
and see you try one one weekend this summer. What was dumb IMO was
for you to think there was anything remotely clever or interesting or
challenging or smart about putting your in a simple child's
substitution code in the first place as if that was going to be somehow
stupeified by this billiant ingenious ruse.
richforman
All of this silly self aggrandizement just proves my point and shows
why you are making friends here so easily.
Hey, YOU were the one that questioned and insulted my intelligence.
Sorry I took offense and responded instead of just cowering away, "Mys
Terry,"
more cleverness and brilliance there.
And how self aggrandizing was it to put your lame message in
substitution code for no earthly reason? Seemed like the only possible
reason was because you thought it somehow made you look clever or
smart.
You are just another
annoying belligerent Jetskier with an overblown ego. You really don't
sound all that intelligent, either.
Again....you're wrong. Sorry to sound self-aggrandizing but I"m
responding to your statements, which are gratuitously hurtful and
insulting to me. As it happens, I am extremely, highly intelligent.
In the top 2 percentile of the population. This has been given as
the result when I have been tested for IQ from early childhood all
through my life. Sorry, I don't mean to brag and it doesn't mean that
much in the scheme of things, but the fact is that again, your
impressions, your insights, are mistaken and you are talking about
something you obviously know nothing about. I am not stupid, not
dumb, I happen to be quite intelligent, anybody who knows me or works
with me knows it, and I just don't take well to being spoken down to
and insulted....it's only human. You're wrong, okay? If you think
you're so much more intelligent than me, how about a game of Scrabble
or an in-person challenge over some kind of puzzle even more complex
than a simple childish letter-substitution cryptogram? You didn't
answer any of my questions. If you're so much more intelligent than I,
just tell me your IQ and SAT's and whether you've tested into Mensa.
Strictly honors system, I'll believe you. **** you anyway. I have no
problem making friends in any environment in life or online except
sometimes here in rec.boats.cruising; "belligerent" is about the last
thing in the world that anybody who knows me in real life would be able
to say about me - I guess some of you guys just bring out the best in
me with your charming friendly attitudes.
So why did you do the cryptogram in the first place, "Mys"? Wasn't it
to show how smart you are, or how dumb I was when I was unable to
decipher you brilliantly encrypted and razor-sharp witticism?
Have you ever heard the
expression, "you just jumped the shark"?
Well, that's not quite the expression you mean, but sure, it usually
refers to when a tv series is no longer any good in the speaker's
opinion, or maybe when a rock band stops being cool and puts out their
first lame album.
richforman