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From: todd@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Todd/Dr. Nethack)
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Subject: Re: The Cincinnatus Society of Pinheads
Message-ID: <1307@nmtsun.nmt.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 88 18:07:27 GMT
References: <15638@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: todd@nmtsun.nmt.edu (Todd/Dr. Nethack)
Organization: Suns and Guns, Los Alamos-Albuquerque
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In article <15638@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:

>Last January, I posted an article to sci.{astro,physics}.  I thought it
>was a rather nice article, answering (perhaps) someone's questions about
>what Stephen Hawking was saying about black holes and quantum mechanics
>and God in some news article.

I still have an original hard copy in my files complete with mailer times,
dates, etc..

>This journal is the official rantzine for the Cincinnatus Society, "a
>group of individuals choosing to communicate amicably with one another
>about topics of interest to persons who have achieved the level of in-
>telligence of at least the top one-tenth of one percent of the general
>United States population."

In the fine art of plagarism!

>AAARGH!  I *HATE* these Hi-IQ societies, starting with MENSA and work-
>ing your way down (or "up", as the members would say).  

The "up" is in reference to where their heads go! ;-)

>with a Macintosh picture of Einstein and a giant quotation to help the
>reader along, 

You must admit Matthew, that is kinda funny.. the weemba placed into such
a "Popluar Mechanics" frame of reference.

>So my questions are: what can or might I do?  

SUE THE BASTARDS!!  

1) The Geekazoid that made off with the article
2) The Publisher
3) The Society (maybe you can put them out of buisness) --we can only hope.

>	When we have a somewhat more conventional organization,
>	we can think about higher things, such as, for example,
>	the unification of the various High-IQ groups...

And the stealing of articles too brilliant to be their own.

Go get 'em weemba!! You need any help?  :-)

     --nethack
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