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02-20-2012, 03:10 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: SF East Bay
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Originally Posted by REWahoo
Virguphobia is a terrible thing...
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Bet you can't work that word into a real-life conversation in the next week.
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Contentedly ER, with 3 furry friends (now, sadly, 1).
Planning my escape to the wide open spaces in my campervan (with my remaining kitty, of course!)
On a mission to become the world's second most boring man.
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02-20-2012, 03:11 PM
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#82
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Texas: No Country for Old Men
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Originally Posted by Major Tom
Oh yes. IIRC, I was renewing my relationship with Trader Joe's 2 buck-chuck while making that post. Not the best of times to be posting on the internet.......
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PUI can be dangerous.
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Numbers is hard
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02-20-2012, 03:16 PM
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Administrator
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Chicagoland
Posts: 40,725
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Originally Posted by Major Tom
Bet you can't work that word into a real-life conversation in the next week.
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Hey Virg, you got a phobia 'bout commas or something?
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02-20-2012, 05:02 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Lawn chair in Texas
Posts: 14,183
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I didn't figure there were many virgues left...
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Have Funds, Will Retire
...not doing anything of true substance...
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02-20-2012, 06:02 PM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso)
Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Oct 2006
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I score 7 out of 20 in the short test and the description of being able to see through the bubble is about right. Frankly I'm surprised I scored so high. I have several friends and former colleagues who'd get close to zero.
The thing that helped my score is playing poker with a revolving group of couple hundred folks. I really get a chance to meet more typical Americans (although decent poker players are well above average intelligence otherwise they become broke). The limited discussions around the poker table involve sports, betting on sports, poker, sports history, movies, pop culture. Things like politics, or current events are almost never discussed and this despite that fact that any given time roughly 20% of the players have been to Iraq or Afghanistan. Investment and retirement planning never come up. In contrast to my non-poker friends where these subjects come up frequently.
Murray is right there is a huge cultural divide in America, I loved the Bell Curve, and will probably read this book too.
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