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From: dan@charyb.COM (Dan Mick)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Who's more "helpful?" & Attitudes (Was Re: What does 'UNIX' mean ?)
Keywords: What about your IQ?
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Date: 12 Feb 90 17:52:15 GMT
References: <22210@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <11399@attctc.Dallas.TX.US> <10761@nigel.udel.EDU> <22256@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
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In article <22256@unix.cis.pitt.edu> wct1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William C Tom) writes:
|In article <10761@nigel.udel.EDU> berryh@udel.edu (John Berryhill) writes:
|>
|>When I was barely able to read and I came across a word that I didn't
|>know I would invariably ask my father.  I can't recall a single time
|>that my father actually told me the meaning of the word that I was after.
|>He would always smile and say, "Look it up."   Of course, along the
|>way towards finding the word I was after, I would always come across
|>many other words that I learned as well.  The end result was a near
|>perfect verbal SAT score.
|
|(sigh)
|I wasn't going to post anything more on this already overlong thread
|...( I know, I know, I helped start it)
|
|BUT, I just can't resist this one......
|
|Did anyone else read the above post and immediately reacted with,
|" *SHEESH*, What a dickhead!"  ?

Gee, no, Bill, I *didn't* think "sheesh, what a dickhead", until I read
*your* message!...

Have problems with spelling and vocab?  Have a low SAT?  Got a feeling of
severe insecurity and inadequacy?

YOU SHOULD!

Or is there some other reason you see fit to ridicule intelligent learning?