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New Jersey operator licensing
Mys Terry wrote:
On 11 Apr 2006 13:25:19 -0700, wrote: 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. Questioning your intelligence was reasonable under the circumstances. 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. Actually, I figured by using ROT13, everybody except you would read it and have a good laugh at your expense. You really beg for abuse. It all goes back to your giant ego. So then just admit that you were completely dead wrong, as I said above, in figuring that I wouldn't be able to decipher and read it. I was in on the hilariously witty and original "crayons" barb. You underestimated my intelligence and cleverness, right? Will you go along that far? You're saying right here that you for some reason didn't think I would be able to read your brilliantly encoded message? SO your estimation of my mental acuity were off-base? 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. Sounds like I probably score quite a bit higher than you, Rich. I'm not kidding. Al right then, certainly possible, but then you must concede that you were wrong when you accused me of being dumb and not being intelligent. Unless you think that's an accurate description of someone who is merely in the top 2 percentile. I don't claim to be any smarter than I am, but I know I'm pretty damn smart. 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. Your intelligence has nothing to do with your obnoxiousness. If you were a little smarter you'd be able to figure that out. YOu said I should feel dumb. That was a comment about my intelligence, not about obnoxiousness. You were mistaken as well as gratuitously and inaccurately insulting. You are bright but in this case you were wrong and way off-base. Will you grant me this, apologizing would be appropriate, but I don't expect that kind of humility or courtesy, and we can move on. You're wrong, okay? If you think you're so much more intelligent than me, how about a game of Scrabble Oh, now There's a challenge! or an in-person challenge over some kind of puzzle even more complex than a simple childish letter-substitution cryptogram? Everybody but you seems to know that it's the common usenet encryption used when you want to give people an option of not reading something, known far and wide as ROT13. I knew what it was and without being in on the secret Usenet ROT13 club (have been posting on usenet for close to ten years but I've just never encountered that, sorry), I deciphered and cracked this brilliant ingenious code on my own and read your message. You're right, I've never heard of ROT13 but if that's supposed to keep people from understanding messages, I guess obviously I'm way above the threshold of people you figured would be locked out of getting your clever hilarious joke. Unlike some people, I can just admit it when I don't know something and have learned something new. At the same time, it strikes me as ridiculously pretentious and precious to have a secret special name for such a childish letter-substitution code and consider oneself in some exclusive smartass club to know it, when again, a reasonably bright pre-adolescent who's never heard of or used Usenet, could solve the code, understand any message and be in the club in a few minutes. LIke I said, without already knowing the code or its secret-insider-club name, I solved it thusly, while I was working on my software development too, just scribbling on paper and had this figured in 5 minutes or so, my notes are still he Sorry it was far over your head and you couldn't learn anything from it. I'd Fbeel vg jnf sne bire lbhe urnq naq lbh pbhyqa'g yrnea nalguvat sebz vg. V'q like to report it in a way you might be able to grasp it but until the yvxr gb ercbfg vg va n jnl lbh zvtug or noyr gb tenfc vg, ohg hagvy gur technology improves I won't be able to post in Usenet with crayons. grpuabybtl vzcebirf, V jba'g or noyr gb cbfg gb hfrarg jvgu penlbaf ....or course your oh-so-clever message is a little grammatically wanting in the phrase "in a way you might be able to grasp it," but no, this didn't sail over my head as you predicted, it wasn't beyond my meager grasp, it didn't leave everyone laughing behind my back. 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. It was a long time ago, but my SAT's were 740/780 That's outstanding, indeed, higher than mine (somewhat, not necessarily "quite a bit" in your words), which was 760 math / 630 english, that was about 28 or 29 years ago for me. Pretty clearly I think you can fairly conclude that I'm not stupid, not dumb, am intelligent, am VERY intelligent, smart enough to keep up with you or pretty much anybody around this newsgroup. SO when you said to me, "You should feel dumb, now and always," which started this whole exchange, you were dead wrong, can you admit it or not? **** 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. Uh, Rich... This is usenet, not real life. Correct, and it is the point I was making. You are known here as a ****wit with a PWC. Who cares what a bunch of guys who don't know me, have never met me, know nothing about me, and are so shallow-minded and intolerant as to jump to all kinds of false conclusions about me at the very onset of the conversation, based solely on the size and shape of my boat's hull, think about me. 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? Hardly. It was a courtesy. Guess you'll have to use a stronger encryption algorithm next time. But I do appreciate the effort to protect me from that again, stinging, incredibly witty "crayons" remark. Hilarious! The protection was unnecessary, the remark didn't wound me too much, but I'm glad I was able to decode it, or I would have missed out on that belly-laugh. You're like another Mark Twain or Woody Allen - the wit and delicious irony in the line, "posting with crayons," I'm still cracking up inside from that as I'm sure we all are. 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. Not exactly, but it was the absolutely correct term for you. Whatever you say. At this point I'd be happy with you just ceasing and taking back the many personal attacks and insults directed towards me. Maybe you think I"m obnoxious, bothersome to you or whatever for talking about pwc's in a boating group, but I'm definitely not stupid, not dumb, I am bright, I am intelligent, I am clever, sorry to keep saying it but I'm hoping you will acknowledge that you were wrong about me in saying the opposite, that it was unfair and unfounded, and I'm also a safe, educated, responsible, courteous, reasonably knowledgeable (though always with tons more to learn) boater and member of the boating community, and a fully positive representative of pwc's every time I hit the water. Good enough. richforman |
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