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wolf 06-08-2004 12:49 AM
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Originally posted by lumberjim


well, glat, i didnt think it was something your boss would pick up at a glance. plus, since i shrunk it to fit under the filesize cap, i cant even see it anymore...and i know what it is.
It worked. That's hilarious.

When the craze was big I bought several of the magic eye books. They never had anything that quite popped out like that, though. I remember seeing an "x-rated" magic eye book for sale through Quality Paperback Book Club a couple years ago, but I never bothered buying it.

Catwoman 06-08-2004 04:34 AM
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Originally posted by SteveDallas
So are any of you Mensa "qualifiers" actually members of Mensa? (I ask because I went to a meeting with a friend once & I could imagine any less interesting way to pass my time, and I was just wondering if maybe it was that one chapter.)

No. I got the leaflet through after I qualified and it looked like a 1970's mental institution; a largely older clientele assembled in manicured gardens with implausible dress sense and no facial expressions. Ill-informed judgements aside, though, I never really felt the urge to participate in an IQ swap-shop, and as radar says, waste time attempting to communicate with people who have limited social skills.

Now if they replaced intelligence tests with drinking games I would be much more inclined to show up (who needs brain cells anyway). :beer:

Crimson Ghost 06-08-2004 07:34 AM
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Originally posted by Catwoman



No. I got the leaflet through after I qualified and it looked like a 1970's mental institution; a largely older clientele assembled in manicured gardens with implausible dress sense and no facial expressions. Ill-informed judgements aside, though, I never really felt the urge to participate in an IQ swap-shop, and as radar says, waste time attempting to communicate with people who have limited social skills.
Sounds like you could have been joining Congress, too.
You know intelligence has no place in government.

glatt 06-08-2004 07:37 AM
I took Mensa's online test that tells you if you have a shot of getting in. I passed it. I think I would have needed to take an "official" test before being accepted. It's been a while, but I believe that they take the top 2% in intelligence. Out of a world of 6 Billion people, that means that 120,000,000 people meet the requirements for Mensa membership. It is NOT an exclusive club.

120 million people... That's like the population of Canada, right?

Beestie 06-08-2004 08:22 AM
Finally.

Beestie 06-08-2004 08:24 AM
Originally posted by glatt
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120 million people... That's like the population of Canada, right?
No Mensa for you.[/soup nazi]

HungLikeJesus 06-28-2007 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Undertoad (Post 104803)
...

Anyone who hasn't gotten the puzzle yet, it doesn't really speak to your intelligence. Go back to it, I swear this is useful. Imagine that the question in the puzzle is being asked of you by a four-year-old child. If you still don't get it, LOOK AWAY from the puzzle. Stop, and imagine a four-year-old looking at the puzzle and asking you the question. Why would a four-year-old ask that question? Picture the kid asking you the question. Is it a boy or a girl? Why would they ask that question? Imagine what the question would mean if you were four and didn't know that the dots represented numbers.

The people who got it right away are missing out because they don't get the free lesson.

/end professor mode
When I was four I thought...

What did I think?

I could say I thought the world was flat, or I could fly, but what I now think I then thought could never be expressed in the language of that age and limited experience.

Shawnee123 06-28-2007 11:18 AM
What was the puzzle? Link gone.

HungLikeJesus 06-28-2007 11:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 359639)
What was the puzzle? Link gone.
Yeah, I noticed that too. But I read the whole thread, so I thought someone else should also.

It was interesting to speculate on what the puzzle was, with such limited clues.

Happy Monkey 06-28-2007 11:27 AM
Here's the puzzle.

Shawnee123 06-28-2007 12:05 PM
I'm dumb, I can't get the rose puzzle. I'm blind, I can't see the magic image. If I were deaf I could play a mean pinball.

xoxoxoBruce 06-28-2007 12:11 PM
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Originally Posted by glatt (Post 105127)
I took Mensa's online test that tells you if you have a shot of getting in. I passed it. I think I would have needed to take an "official" test before being accepted. It's been a while, but I believe that they take the top 2% in intelligence. Out of a world of 6 Billion people, that means that 120,000,000 people meet the requirements for Mensa membership. It is NOT an exclusive club.

120 million people... That's like the population of Canada, right?
That's 0.2%... even a 2 year old can get in.

Undertoad 06-28-2007 12:31 PM
https://crux.baker.edu/~cdavis09/roses.html

The dude forgot the tilde.

HungLikeJesus 06-28-2007 12:55 PM
UT - thanks. That second site made everything clear.

BigV 06-28-2007 02:00 PM
9 mins, including finding it on my own from the clue in post #1.

There is no spoon.


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