Subj : Re: Intelligence check-up To : Daryl Stout From : George Pope Date : Tue Jun 08 2021 10:14:28 > I'm 21 months older than my brother...but while we were raised in the same > household, our interests are as different as night and day. That's not so unusual. You were likely in different grades, so had slightly different school influences in your respective formative years. . . > Some folks don't even care for pun humor (play on words). When the girdle > was first invented, the woman trying it on was asked if it fit properly. She > replied "Of corset does"...or am I skirting the real issue here?? You may have noticed: I *LOVE* puns! It helps me identify who's intelligent in the crowd. . . so I know where to find a good conversation. . . > GP> It's true, and it's been proven by science. A 2017 study by Austrian > GP> neurologists published in Cognitive Processing found that people who > GP> appreciate dark jokes, which they define as "humor that treats sinister > GP> subjects like death, disease, deformity, handicap, or warfare with > GP> bitter amusement," may actually have higher IQs than those who don't. > I wonder if that could apply to punny humor, as noted above. It's been well noted, in other surveys, that intelligent people love to pun! > If you can laugh at yourself, then I'd think you have a higher IQ, and > possibly a higher self esteem...although the latter could be dependent on > the situation at hand. If one person calls you an ass, laugh about it. If two people cal you an ass, ignore them. If three peoplecall you an ass, check yourself for long ears. > You do have a PhD. Piled Higher And Deeper. By the way, that diagnosis > just cost you $250. I never pay over $130 in Florida! (for a house/hotel call doctor, even!) > GP> 4. The doctor gave me some cream for my skin rash. He said I was a > GP> sight for psoriasis. > Those yeast infections happen even if you're allergic to bread. *especially if? True story: all the yeast we use today likely traces it's ancestry back to one man's foot fungus. (stomped on grapes to make alcoholic wine) > GP> 5. A man walks into a magic forest and tries to cut down a talking > GP> tree. "You can't cut me down," the tree complains. "I'm a talking > GP> tree!" The man responds, "You may be a talking tree, but you will > GP> dialogue." > Who got stumped in the conversation?? If you think I know, yu're barkng up the wrong tree, mate. . Oak-ay, on to the next. . . > I'm on a light seafood diet. As soon as it's light, and I see food, I > start eating. Besides, if they didn't want us to have a midnight snack, > why did they put lights in the refrigerator and freezer?? Works for me! > GP> 9. "What's your name, son?" The principal asked his student. The kid > GP> replied, "D-d-d-dav-dav-david, sir." "Do you have a stutter?" the > GP> principal asked. The student answered, "No sir, my dad has a stutter > GP> but the guy who registered my name was a real jerk." > Say that 3 times fast. "thatthatthat." Why? > GP> 12. What's red and bad for your teeth? A brick. > So are concrete blocks. but those aren't necessarily red? > A hot time in the old town tonight. Sounds like the couple who grabbed the > Vicks Vapor Rub instead of the Astroglide. :P Or the poor sap whose Best Man was a dentist, who, for a gag, slipped some numbing agent into the lube before the happy newlyweds went on their homeymoon! > Never have children...only grandchildren. Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing our own children. > GP> 19. The other day, my wife asked me to pass her lipstick but I > GP> accidentally passed her a glue stick. She still isn't talking to me. > Not the way to solvent a problem. If you're not part ofd the solution. . you're precipitate. > ... If you think everything's OK, you've overlooked something. Oklahoma is OK. I bet some snivel serpent got a big bonus for that one! Then he spent it all on magic beans. . . Beans, beans, the musical fruit The more you ear the more you toot. The more you toot, the better you feel So just eat beans at every meal! Your friend, <+]:{)} Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757.2) .