Xref: utzoo sci.math:5422 sci.physics:5612 comp.edu:1914 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ncis.llnl.gov!ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!ucsd!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ethan From: ethan@ut-emx.UUCP (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac) Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,comp.edu Subject: Re: Are Americans Intellectually Inferior? Summary: changing one's opinions Message-ID: <9603@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 19 Jan 89 15:15:24 GMT References: <14.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP> <348@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 27 In article <348@sunset.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, troly@redwood.math.ucla.edu (Bret Jolly) writes: > In article johnm@uts.amdahl.com (John Murray) writes: > >In article <14.UUL1.3#913@acw.UUCP>, scott@acw.UUCP (Scott Guthery) writes: > >> Bret Jolly wonders if Americans are intellectually inferior. > > People keep quoting this and are now cross-posting this to various other > groups like sci.math & sci.physics. So I want to repeat yet again that > *I did not say this*. I said (in the course of an anecdote in comp.edu) > that *when I was in third grade* I wondered whether Americans were > intellectually inferior. Thank you. Perhaps the fact that people assume that Bret's opinions have remained unchanged since the third grade proves he was right in the first place. :-) -- I'm not afraid of dying Ethan Vishniac, Dept of Astronomy, Univ. of Texas I just don't want to be {charm,ut-sally,ut-emx,noao}!utastro!ethan there when it happens. (arpanet) ethan@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU - Woody Allen (bitnet) ethan%astro.as.utexas.edu@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU These must be my opinions. Who else would bother?