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threefates 
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 Topic: Does prog make you smart?
Posted: January 15 2005 at 15:13 |
Not the Truman Capote I used to have dinner with monthly... 
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THIS IS ELP
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James Lee
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Posted: January 15 2005 at 14:47 |
 Syzygy wrote:
Velvetclown wrote:
f**k Off Reed !!!!!!!!!!!!! |
That's what I log on for - the kind of repartee you got at the Cafe Royal when Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw were holding court
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I don't know about the Cafe Royal, but it does sound a lot like Tennesee Williams and Truman Capote.
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Syzygy
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Posted: January 15 2005 at 08:22 |
Velvetclown wrote:
f**k Off Reed !!!!!!!!!!!!! |
That's what I log on for - the kind of repartee you got at the Cafe Royal when Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw were holding court
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 15 2005 at 08:19 |
f**k Off Reed !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Syzygy
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Posted: January 15 2005 at 08:17 |
Rekkr wrote:
That experiment is not true. Once you are born, your IQ doesn't change, though you may get brain damaged.
To listen to rap you must be dumb in the first place.
To listen to classical music you must be smart in the first place.
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IQ tests do not measure intelligence. They measure ability to pass IQ tests, which is pretty low on the list of essential survival skills for homo sapiens sapiens.
There does seem to be a correlation between people who believe that IQ actually means something and those who believe that one form of cultural expression is necessarily superior to another. I suspect that a lot of such individuals wear name tags at work and can't understand why their intrinsic superiority over the rest of humanity hasn't been recognised.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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dude
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Posted: January 15 2005 at 07:38 |
EVEN WITHOUT THE "JUST KIDDING" I WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN OFFENDED JAMES
AFTER ALL WE DONT HAVE COLLEGES IN AUSTRALIA SO FOURTH GRADE WOULD BE UNIVERSITY
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James Lee
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Posted: January 15 2005 at 07:13 |
4th grade is considered college in Australia, right?
JUST KIDDING, I love aussies.
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dude
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Posted: January 15 2005 at 05:24 |
ME LISTERN REEL GOOD PROG,ME SMART WITH NU BRAYN NOW.
ME PASS 4TH GRADE AT SKUUL WITH NU BRAYN.
ME NEERLY FORTY!!!
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James Lee
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Posted: January 15 2005 at 05:00 |
Pixel Pirate wrote:
Your cultural habits reveal your intellect. To gauge someone's intellect all you have to do is: Check their bookshelves and check their music collection.
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I just wanted to make sure you're being sarcastic...you are, aren't you?
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Reed Lover
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Posted: January 14 2005 at 16:44 |
Certif1ed wrote:
Billy Connolly is funny and swears a lot, ergo: people who listen to him are funny and swear a lot.
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Well, yes actually.
What do you think,VC?
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Certif1ed
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Posted: January 14 2005 at 15:48 |
Pixel Pirate wrote:
Classical music is intelligent music,ergo: people who listen to it are intelligent. |
Water is wet, ergo: if it's wet it's water.
Billy Connolly is funny and swears a lot, ergo: people who listen to him are funny and swear a lot.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a violent film, ergo: people who watch it are violent.
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 14 2005 at 05:15 |
Yes we all pity you James 
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Pixel Pirate
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Posted: January 14 2005 at 05:01 |
Rekkr wrote:
That experiment is not true. Once you are born, your IQ doesn't change, though you may get brain damaged.
To listen to rap you must be dumb in the first place.
To listen to classical music you must be smart in the first place.
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Yes! That's exactly it. To claim that any music makes you more intelligent is obviously rubbish,but your cultural habits reveal your intelligence. If you're stupid you naturally gravitate towards stupid cultural expressions,and if you're intelligent you naturally gravitate towards intelligent cultural expressions. Classical music is intelligent music,ergo: people who listen to it are intelligent. Your cultural habits reveal your intellect. To gauge someone's intellect all you have to do is: Check their bookshelves and check their music collection.
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Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
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James Lee
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Posted: January 14 2005 at 04:34 |
I've enjoyed some rap, and found some classical music extremely banal...I guess that just means I got my graduate degrees due to pity or something, huh?
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 14 2005 at 01:24 |
To listen to rap you must be dumb in the first place.
To listen to classical music you must be smart in the first place.
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 14 2005 at 01:24 |
No Prozac does not make you smarter, but it makes you less of a Smartass 
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Rekkr
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Posted: January 14 2005 at 01:01 |
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That experiment is not true. Once you are born, your IQ doesn't change, though you may get brain damaged.
To listen to rap you must be dumb in the first place.
To listen to classical music you must be smart in the first place.
Solved.
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Arioch
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Posted: January 13 2005 at 23:31 |
Prog definitely makes me smarter than the rest of you bird brains.
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Knight of the Swords
Lord of Entropy
Duke of Chaos
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James Lee
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Posted: January 13 2005 at 17:55 |
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Does Prozac make you smarter?
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Velvetclown
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Posted: January 13 2005 at 13:38 |
Reed is full of it, but I wouldn´t want him any other way !!!!!!! ( I hate this Prozac crap )
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