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I guess I better stick to intelligent posts. Stern%20Smile

Earlier today I saw someone who looked exactly like Kate Bush might have looked as a 36-year-old! I'm still on fire. Heart


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My intelligence can be read by a barcode scanner. It's always a 13-digit number. I must be an ISBN.
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I have the intelligence and power to be able to make the sky construct skyscrapers.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Slartibartfast Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 25 2008 at 17:46
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

Shocked

I guess I better stick to intelligent posts. Stern%20Smile

Earlier today I saw someone who looked exactly like Kate Bush might have looked as a 36-year-old! I'm still on fire. Heart




I have The Line, The Cross, & The Curve, so I can see exactly what Kate looked like at 36 Cool.
Except for those parts underneath the clothing of course.  Which is probably a good thing as my head would explode.


Edited by Slartibartfast - April 25 2008 at 17:48
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Vompatti Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2008 at 17:01
And now for something completely different. I need opinions of intelligent people on the following issue:

I've been writing a book of poems to become famous, rich, and loved by many (girls). In its present form it's divided into five (5) parts. Four (4) of them have a concept, one (1) of them doesn't:

I. Concept (several poems that form a story)
II. Concept (several poems with similar themes)
III. Concept (several poems with similar themes)
IV. No concept (several crappy poems with nothing to do with each other)
V. Concept (one long poem divided in several parts)

Here's what I want to ask:
1. Does it seem gay or repetitive if the word "garden" appears in most of the poems in part I of the book?
2. Does it seem unintelligent if some of the poems clearly imply to the theories of Erich von Däniken?
3. Does it seem childish if some of the poems are based on comparing certain parts of the human body to certain parts of the house (in a relatively non-erotic way)?
4. Does the fact that part IV doesn't have a concept at all make the whole book seem unfinished?
5. Does the fact that all of the poems in part IV are bad make the other parts look better than they really are?
5. Does it seem pretentious to refer to Wittgenstein?
6. Who would win in a fight: Chuck Norris or Steven Seagal?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote progaeopteryx Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2008 at 20:31
There are no rules in poetry. I think a poetry book of 125 pages with "garden" being the only word used (probably about 8000 times I would guess) is clever and certainly drives the point home. Don't forget to scatter punctuation symbols across each page.

Like this:

             garden
     GARden #                   g arden +*
GARDEN    garden  <<  ,   %     gaRDen
           garden garden garden
 garden?        garden GARden &                                       $~
            garden

and so on....
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Vompatti Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2008 at 12:43
So you think it's a bad book if there are other words than garden in it? Cry
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Originally posted by progaeopteryx progaeopteryx wrote:

There are no rules in poetry. I think a poetry book of 125 pages with "garden" being the only word used (probably about 8000 times I would guess) is clever and certainly drives the point home. Don't forget to scatter punctuation symbols across each page.

Like this:

             garden
     GARden #                   g arden +*
GARDEN    garden  <<  ,   %     gaRDen
           garden garden garden
 garden?        garden GARden &                                       $~
            garden

and so on....
 
e.e. cummings rip-off. Wink
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Doesn't anyone care about my garden? If so, I'll plant it as I wish.
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Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:


6. Who would win in a fight: Chuck Norris or Steven Seagal?


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote LinusW Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2008 at 17:35
Originally posted by keiser willhelm keiser willhelm wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:


6. Who would win in a fight: Chuck Norris or Steven Seagal?


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Silly. Just silly. Stephen Hawking's mind would have them all screaming in fear. Or mine for that matter. But the consequences of using it in such a violent situation is beyond imagination.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote progaeopteryx Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2008 at 19:26
Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:

So you think it's a bad book if there are other words than garden in it? Cry


I wouldn't say that. Garden juxtaposed with unrelated words would catch my attention too. Like "I tumbled over the boogie bush while three feet eat from the pancake garden."
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote TGM: Orb Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2008 at 19:51
Originally posted by LinusW LinusW wrote:

Originally posted by keiser willhelm keiser willhelm wrote:

Originally posted by Vompatti Vompatti wrote:


6. Who would win in a fight: Chuck Norris or Steven Seagal?


Magma.


Silly. Just silly. Stephen Hawking's mind would have them all screaming in fear. Or mine for that matter. But the consequences of using it in such a violent situation is beyond imagination.


Oh, come on. Stephen Hawking's IQ is much less than half what mine would be if they'd only got the damn IQ test questions right in the first place. I mean, I could use my mind in such a situation without reprisal, but then I wouldn't have the energy left to fend off the women attracted by my giant brain.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote LinusW Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 04 2008 at 22:20
Fair. Just relating to understandable amounts of intelligence. After all, most are mere mortals.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Vompatti Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2008 at 11:43
Since nobody cares
about my book of poems,
how good it will be
and how many times the word 'garden' will appear in it,
I decided to leave it
as it was
and send it to the people
who will publish it
and give me money.
Then I'll write another one
where the word 'garden' doesn't appear
at all.
Instead there are words like
'singularity', 'stratosphere' and 'coffee'.
Then I'll write another one
with words like
'sip', 'moan' and 'frolick'.
If I get enough money
and write enough poems
I have a chance of becoming
almost as good as Bukowski.
I'm already better than Shakespeare.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote progaeopteryx Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 05 2008 at 19:35
^ that's a good poem.


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^ I know, I wrote it. Approve Cool

And the best is yet to come, said the granny at the hospice facility. Wink
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Originally posted by Atomic_Rooster Atomic_Rooster wrote:

This is a thread for Intelligent people only.

As the smartest person in the universe, it falls to me to start this thread and to officially admit other people into this thread.

If you wish to be an official member of this thread, then post your 5 best characteristics so that the other members can judge you.  These should not be mental characteristics, because it is assumed that if you want to become a member of this thread, then you are already a very smart person.

If you join, you can enjoy conversing about such diverse intellectual things as: caviar, wine, classical music, how inferior other people are, and other things that might be discussed in a traditional gentleman's (or woman's) club.

List of official members so far:

JJLehto, cuncuna, rileydog22, The Miracle, The Wizard, moreitsythanyou, Arrrghus, Drew, Man Erg, Atavachron, Certif1ed, Sean Trane, Visitor13, Firepuck, andu, Ricochet, StarsongAgeless, progismylife, laplace, Syzygy, Snow Dog, magnus, Viajero Astral, king of Siam, Geck0, Vompatti, The Lost Chord, puma, MrHiccup, prog-jester, fungusucantkill


<!--[endif]-->And of Course the ever amazing Atomic_Rooster

 
We need to update the official members list. Some of these dudes don't even come to PA anymore.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Vompatti Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2008 at 17:05
^ You realize that updating the member list would mean reading or at least browsing through the whole 33 pages of this nonsen... um, intelligence?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Petrovsk Mizinski Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 11 2008 at 22:20
Well with my intelligence, clearly I can read it those 33 pages in about 1/10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000th of a second.
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