PeterPan> re
<sp0> what kind of iq do i have to have to join mensa?
<|PythonS|> check out the channel homepage at http://www.mensa.xan.net - links to www.mensa.org and www.us.mensa.org there, sp0
<PeterPan> sp0: have look at www....ah...see
<sp0> my iq is 160
<sp0> is that good enough?
<|PythonS|> yes
<PeterPan> sp0: on what scale ?
<sp0> on a scale of 100 - 1600
<sp0> err i mean on a scale of 1 - 4000 
<sp0> my iq would be 160 or better
<jrdrisc> ?
<sp0> what iq test do you want me to take?
<sp0> is an iq of 120 high enough to join?
<sp0> how about 115
* PeterPan looks kinda bored...
<sp0> maybe you should go to never never land
<|PythonS|> a channel full of people waiting for someone else to start the discussion
<sp0> where you'll never grow old
<^Skyman^> *sigh*
<sp0> that would be wonderful
<RTist> sup sky
<^Skyman^> hello RTist :)
<^Skyman^> not much, what's new with you?
<RTist> how was your weekend
<^Skyman^> it sucked, like most of my weekends.
<RTist> heh
<^Skyman^> but I passed my pistol proficiency test :)
<RTist> is that good for someone whos depressed? 
<sp0> any of you guy ever think of killing yourself
<PeterPan> RTist: the absolute cure, for sure
<^Skyman^> Nah, why should I make my enemies happy?
* PeterPan did...
<sp0> because you are a pathetic loser?
<sp0> a bum
<^Alia> hi sky :) rtist :) peterpan..
<sp0> a no good nothing
<sp0> a shit for brains
<sp0> because you are better off dead than alive
<PeterPan> sp0: hm, why is it you are so bitter ?
<RTist> how ya doing alia
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<RTist> thanks 
<|PythonS|> no charge
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<sp0> i was just saying
<PeterPan> pythons: ach, let him stay, please :)
<sp0> you guys ever do drugs?
<sp0> like pot
<sp0> or alcohol?
<sp0> or maybe crack
<RTist> sp0 you ever try tact?
* PeterPan thinks sp0 is somehow entertaining :O)
* PeterPan is away playing Magic....
<sp0> how many of you are druggies
<glo^> <-- not a druggie
<sp0> admit it please
* irishrose raises her hand
<irishrose> I am
<irishrose> but only asthma drugs
<sp0> glo: you ever done any drugs?
<avigail> and on sunday and munday i am rather busy'
<glo^> yes, sp0, and I recommend it to no one
<sp0> when did you do drugs
<sp0> and how much 
* PeterPan is addicted to Magic....gone playing now..
<sp0> what kind of drugs, etc
<RTist> i hate surveys
<avigail> surveys are a real drug
<RTist> addicting even
<|killjoy|> http://kwikmed.com/viagra/102351/
<avigail> and about as socially beneficial
<RTist> how long have you had this problem sp0?
<sp0> a few years
<sp0> who has done drugs?
<RTist> and what would it tell you? a bunch of ppl you dont know have or have not done drugs.. 
<sp0> it would tell me if people have done drugs or have not
<sp0> thats what
<RTist> so whats the point.. i can ans that for you.. some ppl have done drugs some ppl have not
<Data1> one would assume that you mean illicit drugs?
<sp0> where do you come up with these words
<sp0> do you read a lot or soemthing?
<Data1> Dictionary
<sp0> instead of saying harmful you said illicit
<sp0> why
<glo^> they have differenet meanings
<Data1> It's that big book that holds open the gym door.
<avigail> sp0, if one doesnt do drugs one has time to read
<glo^> harmful means damaging, illicit in this context means illegal
<Data1> nooo, illicit != harmful
<Data1> illicit means not permitted or allowed
<sp0> what are your guys iq?
<Data1> which is NOT the same as harmful.
<glo^> and != means "does not equal" 
<Data1> um..I dislike being probed.
<glo^> ppl, this is sp0, who was here last night, and is 17 and wants to start his first year of college instead of going back to high school
<glo^> the school convo was more interesting than the drug quiz, IMO
* PeterPan is happy he is playing magic and hasn't to follow this discussion ;o)
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<asr> sp0 is a cock
<RTist> he needs ppl skills
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<^Alia> whoops
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<sp0> hi
<asr> sp0 should be banned
<sp0> what are you guys iq?
<asr> please
* Data1 raises an eyebrow.
<glo^> what's your interest in this, asr?
<RTist> who is asr?
<avigail> banned? drugged maybe
<^Alia> that sentence does not compute
<glo^> asr and sp0 know each other from another channel?
<PeterPan> asr: i think everbody should feel free to set somone on personal ignore
<glo^> good advice, Pan !!!
<asr> sp0 needs to be banned
<asr> all he needs is a nice good kickban
<^Alia> did sp0 pass a college entrance exam?
<sp0> what are you talking about?
<sp0> yep
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<asr> sp0 dropped out of HS
<Data1> be good
<glo^> sp0, do you know asr?
<sp0> nope
<asr> sp0 YES YOU DO
<glo^> asr, do you know sp0?
<asr> everyone, i know sp0 in real life.
<asr> yes, i do.
<asr> that is why i suggest you ban him
<RTist> and does he do drugs?
<asr> yes
<asr> _glo`: he will harass you.  im doing this as a precautionary measure.  trust me.
<sp0> when you took the intelligent test what did you people score on it?
<sp0> i would like to join mensa
<glo^> I talked with sp0 for about two hours last night, asr.  don't bother me
<asr> uhm
<glo^> I'll leave that up to the other ops
<asr> what did you talk to him about?
<glo^> we talked about school.
<asr> why?  he dropped out of school three years ago,  i was in his HS class
<glo^> so what ?
<Data1> asr..I do not believe that anyone here cares to hear you babble on.
<asr> and, sp0 is a compulsive liar.  he is very successful in the telecommunications industry
<asr> last i checked, he was a Sr. SONET Architect for BA
<asr> far from the failure he claims to be
<glo^> I'll just stay out of this - the other ops are more than competent to judge the situation fairly.  biccers was here also last night when sp0 was talking about going back to school.  whether or not that was true  *shrug* it's IRC, how seriously do you think any intelligent person takes every statement they see typed in their windows?
<glo^> we do what we can with what we have
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<avigail> i think i will come back when the air clears -- this is not my sort of conversation
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<sp0> i hope i can become a mensa member
<sp0> please tell me what your intelligentence is
<Data1> it is..there.
* Data1 points

<Ord> For what purpose do you wish to quantify "intelligence"? Thanks for the topic.
<sp0> intelligence is based upon those little tests you take
<RTist> hiya brainrot
<sp0> they are called iq tests
<brainrot> Intelligence is based on grey matter.
<PPan_Gone> sp0: noone can tell, and depends on your understandig of that idea
<brainrot> Noone can tell?
<brainrot> Are you kidding me?
<Data1> it is just "measured" (supposedly) by those silly little tests.
<sp0> well when you took a test, to get accepted to mensa, what was your score
<PPan_Gone> data1: yip
* ^Alia didn't take a test
<^Alia> Mensa was just writing me & calling me all the time.. begging me.. so i said
<^Alia> what the hell
<Ord> I've a crappy dictionary here that defines the intelligence Quotient as the mental age divided by chronological age, usually expressed as a multiple of 100. Given that  mine has been dropping.
<PPan_Gone> alia: hehe ,o)
<^Alia> my isp was fussing because they were filling my email box EVERY day...
<Ord> I used to work for I.Q.Software, and it was one of the most retarted companies I've every worked for.
<RTist> youve never seen us change a fuse, heh
<Ord> Translate spelling appropriately.
<^Alia> yes, the original tarting is usually pretty good, but that retarting.. 
<Data1> can't take the retarting..it's almost like the redanishing
<sp0> listen
<sp0> how did you get accepted in mensa?
<^Alia> ummm no
<RTist> so read their page sp0
<Ord> Do you really want me to correct all the syntax and spelling errors in what I write?
<RTist> so-go
<^Alia> first you graduate from high school
<^Alia> then come back & we'll tell you the rest
<^Alia> ord, don't correct the funny ones :)
<Data1> um..one doesn't have to be a high school graduate.  Just go to Mensa International's webpage.
<^Alia> I'm teasing, data
<^Alia> 'twas a joke
<Skyman> hi pladaux
<Data1> I know. =)
<^Alia> it doesn't matter what anyone says.. he's just going to ask again
<Pladeaux> ja
<sp0> okay were do i take this test
<sp0> this iq test?
<RTist> go to the mensa page
<^Alia> it's under the biggest tree in your town
<^Alia> buried in a metal box
<Data1> hehe
<RTist> we dont have anything to do with the membership, its just a channel name
<^Alia> but you have to conjure up the offical mensa fairies who live in the tree in order to take the test
* Data1 hands alia the rubber chicken
<^Alia> and the spell for that
<DMark> Hey!!! Who you callin' a fairy?
<^Alia> is found somewhere in their website
<PPan_Gone> alia: I'm no offical ,o)
<Ord> To called a fairy only recently became an insult.
<brainrot> Man.
* ^Alia bonks Data on the head with his chicken
<DMark> Just a joke...don't get all pc on me now...
<^Alia> peterpan isn't a fairy, is he?
<RTist> no, he just hangs out with one
<^Alia> nod nod
<Ord> Oh, don't worry, I play straight man on most things.
<sp0> LISTEN
<sp0> WHAT ARE YOUR IQs?
<Data1> um..is this still part of that survey?
<Muad_Dib> sp0: Exactly why does that matter to you?
<sp0> because i am interested
<sp0> and i must know if i have a higher iq that yourself
<Data1> no..you mustn't.
<^Alia> what's yours?
<sp0> my iq on one test is 145, on another it is 117
<Data1> Look..I greatly tire of pissing contests..stop nagging us about something as asinine as IQs
<|PythonS|> and he claimed it was 160 before (sp0)
<^Alia> and what to you want to know?
<Data1> .
<sp0> i was just joking about the 160
<^Alia> everyone here has an iq over 145
* PPan_Gone must be very dumb spendig his time with this
<^Alia> everyone here now, including the bots & everyone who's ever come into this channel
<^Alia> except you
<sp0> really?
<sp0> wow
<sp0> what test did you take?
<Data1> they test your urine.
<Data1> pee in a cup..if it starts reciting Pi then you are smart.
<sp0> wow
<sp0> no kidding
* pShooTr laughs at data
<DMark> Sound's like a new bit for Letterman..."Stupid Urine Tricks"
<glo^> if it knows Pi to 16 places or more, you're in
<Pladeaux> Urnine America now
<sp0> do you know what the number pi is?
<Data1> No...noone here knows what Pi is.
<sp0> do you know 16 places or more?
<^Alia> pi is a symbol
<Data1> Sure..16 random places?
<gilagain> gotta go
<gilagain> bbl
<sp0> how can you know
<sp0> isn't there a pattern?
<sp0> 1343643 would be part of pi?
<DMark> pi is a cymbal?
<sp0> any old number?
* pShooTr yawns
<Muad_Dib> Pi-Search http://www.aros.net/~angio/pi_stuff/piquery.html
<Data1> Ask your 8th grade math teacher.
<sp0> i'm not in 8th grade
<^Alia> were you ever in 8th grade?
<PPan_Gone> hi sheba
<Sheba> hi PPG :)
* glo^ ROTFLs -0-0-  reading an article in the Arts & Leisure section of the Sunday NYT:   "Speech that trips on the tongue / Can that be English?"
<glo^> authors are Franz Lidz & Steve Rushin, senior writers at Sports Illustrated
<DMark> I was in the eighth grade once...twice actually...
<Sheba> lol.  PP: Come up with something more original ;P
<sp0> i was in 8th grade
<sp0> but 8 th grade is not a math class
<PPan_Gone> sheba: sorry, you are right, just coulnd't resist ,o)
<^Alia> well then you have an 8th grade math teacher
<sp0> you see math is devided by catagories
<sp0> not grades
<DMark> Mrs. Zimmerman...eighth grade algebra...
<Sheba> PPG: Understood, no prob :)
<Data1> sp0..please..stop, you're in the toilet-bowl, kid.
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<^Alia> kj:)
<|killjoy|> *that* was unpleasant
<glo^> "Bell's famous pronouncement -- 'Mr. Watson, come here, I want you' -- was the first intelligible sentence spoken by telephone.  And the last intelligible sentence spoken by a Scotsman, in any medium.  Or so it would seem to unaccustomed ears."
<|killjoy|> i go away for a little while and when i come back my client has switched me to undernet
<sp0> you must realize that i am smarter than you are
<muzzle> and modest too :)
<sp0> yes
<sp0> well i think modesty is a weakness
<Data1> Sure you do
<glo^> "Things have gotten worse.  'My Name is Joe,' a Glasgow-set feature from director Ken Loach, was recently released here with subtitles, as if it weren't even nominally in English.  When we phoned him for a comment, Loach was indignant.  At least we think he was indignant.  At least we think he was Loach.  Frankly, we couldn't understand a word."
<|killjoy|> this is the same little punk that last night was whining that he doesn't think he can make it through high school?
<sp0> sure i do not
<Data1> Okay..enough guidance for young sp0..I'm out.
<DMark> I made it through high school once...twice actually...
<sp0> data: you were never in, my friend
<sp0> data: you can stay out if you like tho
<|killjoy|> get a pubic hair, then we'll listen to you
<DMark> my head is spinning from all the quick reparte flying about the room...
<PPan_Gone> kill: ,o)
<^Alia> dmark, were you reincarnated?
<PPan_Gone> dmark: heeee, thats my line ;o)
<DMark> no...but I was reincarcerated...does that count?
<|killjoy|> recidivist?
<sp0> killjoy: why are you so interested in my public hair growth?

<DMark> namecaller...
<|killjoy|> sp: cuz you're jus so dam cute
<sp0> |killjoy| : please stop hitting on me, i am stright, and i like females
<|killjoy|> like you'd know
<PPan_Gone> sp0: pretty fly for a white guy *lol*
<DMark> lol
<muzzle> you people are supposed to be intellectual/mature, instead this is very low-brow/stupid.
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<PPan_Gone> sp0: both ? wow !
<|killjoy|> we're supposed to be intellectual/mature?
* |killjoy| checks the faq...nope, not in there
<DMark> ):(  <=====a low brow...
<sp0> you're suppose to be out of this channel
<sp0> you should of been banned
<|killjoy|> <===== a unibrow
<sp0> your mom should of never had you in the first place
<sp0> and irc/internet is a waste of my life
<sp0> i must be gone
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<Data1> damn
<Data1> missed him
<DMark> be gone
<|killjoy|> :)
<^Alia> jeez
<PPan_Gone> all the fun is gone *sigh*
<Muad_Dib> Darn.  And I was so looking forward to kicking him.
<|killjoy|> ez targets are the junk food of irc
<^Alia> you can kick me, MD
<|killjoy|> in the tail?
<DMark> In the words of a great American Philosopher... "The Thrill is Gone"
<^Alia> nod nod
<PPan_Gone> hm.....he is straight and dose like girls...wow ,o)
<Sheba> Hey Muad :}
<|killjoy|> stright
<DMark> That's right it's stright, not straight...
<^Alia> & you should of never said that!
<PPan_Gone> dmark: hm, not in my dict :o)
<|killjoy|> if you're gonna talk, pls remove the 'gone' :)
<DMark> sorry, mine either...but that's what he said...so I take him at his word...
<^Alia> he is smarter than you after all
<PPan_Gone> dmark: thought he mad a typo...
<PPan_Gone> alia: if so i'll survie that :o)
* |killjoy| shudders at the thought of what his life would have been like if irc had been around in high school
<^Alia> lol kj
<Data1> alot like mine probably, kj.
<|killjoy|> data: nah, you're much better adjusted than i would have been
<PPan_Gone> kill: my mind is gone, not my fingers ;o)
<glo^> I was going to put up the log of last night's convo with sp0 about school (/nicks changed to protect whoever) - now I think I should put one of this up with it: two sides of sp0 the multidimensional troll, or something
<|killjoy|> too mean spirited :)
<glo^> who mean spirited
<|killjoy|> why do you think they call them trolls
<glo^> ok two sides of the multidimensional sp0 then
<glo^> because they lurk under the bridge and make demands
<glo^> who asked you, you shouldna been opped, you dunno pi even and besides yer a fairy etc
<glo^> we have the makings of an all purpose brushoff here -- "sp0 you" maybe :)  "sp0 off and die" etc -- and "you sp0'd me good and proper"
<Ord> New inside jargon.
<Data1> He never threatened to eat my bones at least.
<glo^> or jump them either, data - got off easy
<glo^> sample dialogue from the article I'm reading:
<glo^> Thornton: She gamma az inna, Ray! She fella sheeba fa fluv!
<glo^> Postlethwaite: Stu PaBasta!
<glo^> Thornton:  Jaga zina spittle, Ray!
<glo^> Postlethwaite (despondent): Whaa! 
<Muad_Dib> glo: Sequel to "Jaberwocky" ?
>Thornton: (agitated): She fuga luvdja.  SHE FUGA LUVDJA!
<PPan_Gone> hm...
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<glo^> M-D: lines from a movie called "Among Giants"
<PeterPan> glo: what about ?
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<glo^> "a high-voltage electrical tower romance set in the vertical world of utility pylons along the Yorkshire moors"
<PeterPan> how poetic: high-voltage electric tower romance
<glo^> Griffith's moving hospital bedside confession: "Beffa fubbahopang engla gland leega bunz maw."
<glo^> this article is cracking me up :O
* PeterPan dosen't understand a word ...
<PeterPan> this is english...isn'T it ;o) ?
<glo^> the last line of the article:  "Somewhere in this script, we are sure, has been encrypted the $250 Neiman Marcus cookie recipe."
<glo^> yeah, the subtitle of the article IS "Can That Be English?"
<Ord> Giants and fairys, must be a perverted gaelic.
<PeterPan> lol
<glo^> medieval?
<|killjoy|> that too 
<Phlly0> 2-D Doritos Sales Lagging
<Phlly0> DALLAS--In the wake of the launch of
<Phlly0> "Doritos 3-Ds," Frito-Lay is experiencing a
<Phlly0> sharp decrease in sales of its original
<Phlly0> two-dimensional Doritos. "The public has
<Phlly0> gone wild for our revolutionary depth," 
<glo^> for future refence, 2-3 lines at a time, at the most, works better
<Phlly0> Frito-Lay spokesman Isaac Toomer
<Phlly0> said. "So wild, in fact, they have lost
<Phlly0> interest in traditional monoplanar snack chips." 
<Phlly0> Toomer said Frito-Lay is now
<Phlly0> developing a highly theoretical "Funyuns
<Phlly0> 4-D." "One day, people everywhere will
<Phlly0> enjoy crispy, extratemporal Funyuns that
<Phlly0> intersect with an infinite number of parallel
<Phlly0> hahahahaha
<rkb> is the loss of interest in two-dimensional chips a metaphor for modern man's - never mind
<Phlly0> Toomer said. "It will be a whole new world of non-Euclidean snacking." 
<glo^> where'd you find that, phlly?
<Phlly0> The Onion  =]
<glo^> oh, yeah, good site, the onion