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From: root@trwatf.UUCP (Lord Frith)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Intelligence (in high school?)
Message-ID: <997@trwatf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 14:59:30 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 14:59:30 1985
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In article <1560078@acf4.UUCP> mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora) writes:
>> In this age of computers and high-technology, it's not the jock that
>> gets the good job and the classy girls, it's the nerd who once sported
>> the slide-rule on his belt.
>
> Do you really want women to go out with you because you are in a field that
> has a future?

Since when did I say that *I* sported a slide-rule in school?  Why do
you ask questions like this when I omitted ANY reference to my
profession?  Go back and read what I said.  It is an observation of
fact; not a description of my attitude.

Many of the ostracised nerd-types had to deal with cruel social
pressures... but they learned from these experiences and are better off
for it.  Also, by following pursuits that they really enjoyed (as
opposed to joining the football team simply to pick up girls) they
benefited materially as well as socially and thus proved how shallow
the "jocks" were.

> Are women who would go out with you for this reason necessarily "classy?"

Boy do YOU have a problem.  I said that the former nerds got the classy
girls.  Know why?  Because the nerd-types matured faster and farther
than the jocks (at least socially and mentally).  Same is true of the
classier more intelligence girls who perceived the jocks for the scum
that they were.

Their success is in some ways a measure of their maturity and attention
to the deeper things in life.

>> Success is the best revenge.
>
> I realize you probably suffered considerably from social ostracism in high
> school.  But the fact that you see your success as revenge against the
> ostracizers indicates that you have not yet succeeded to the degree
> that you might.

See the above and refrain from making sweeping judgments concerning someone
elses social maturity or attitude.
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