Mensan DUers check in!

[POed_Ex_Repub]

Come on... I know you're out there.

:hi:

[displacedtexan]

1. Yo!

How's it hangin', Dude?

[qwertyMike]

2. I'm from the planet

Mensa

Where only a fool can know God - Isn't that from the Bible?

[rasputin1952]

3. I am a former MENSA member...

when I was in the Army, I realized that it didn't make that much difference who I was trying to impress. I guess I was just trying to impress myself. :think:

I still have a card somewhere, and maybe someday I'll rejoin; but to be honest with you, most of the meet-ups I went to were pretty boring, although I will state that there were very few that were so insecure as to have to "prove" themselves at every point.

:hi:

O8)

[Kamika]

4. So let us in

What did you guys do on those meetings

[rasputin1952]

12. Every meeting is a little different...

and the first one I went to was in a McDonald's in TX!
There was a guest speaker discussing the cosmos, while the rest of us were clogging our arteries with Big Mac's and such.

I went to one in Seattle, and we had lattes and sticky buns while discussing nothing of earth shattering importance.

I did have some fun when I went to sponsor a LT Col, a graduate from VMI, who figured he was some kind of brilliant strategist, and he failed the test miserably. It really pissed him off when I told him I was a HS drop-out that aced my GED while in the Army...I still LOL about that guy!

To be honest...most of the people of MENSA caliber are just average Joe's and Jane's. I guess R. Buckminster Fuller was the shining example of what could be done with a little thought; but he was the exception to the rule. BTW...Fuller thought of the geodesic dome while walking out into the sea to commit suicide because he considered himself a failure! Turns out to be a remarkably strong structure. Glad he didn't get too far out there in the ocean.

One other thing....most MENSA'ns are far from precocious people. All of us have had our failures, and generally chuckle over them. The big difference, is that there is a vision, not always clear, but attainable. Personally, I think that anyone can find that admirable.

Oh.....and we DO moon Repug's! :silly:

[roughsatori]

15. You probably would have known the last Jeopardy Question last night

"This man helped the editor of OED write the definition of Dymaxion"

A: "Who is Buckminster Fuller?"

Thank the Lord I took a workshop with a Fuller assistant once and learned about Elegance in design and such.

[rasputin1952]

17. LOL...Who would have thunk...

Bucky would be mentioned so twice in 2 days?

Have you studied "Buckyballs"? LOL....

A whole fist full of things came from Fuller, most of them are pretty well obscure.

O8)

[never cry wolf]

18. Very weird

My late sister was a mensan and interned with Bucky, she went to work for him in in Philly as an assistant. When she passed last May of breast cancer I inherited one of her many autographed books from him and some of her tensile sculptures.

I have never joined Mensa but have considered trying, I am just not the clubby type though.

[rasputin1952]

21. I am so sorry to hear of your sister's passing...

she was lucky to have worked with Fuller. From what I understand of the man, he learned just as much from those he worked with, as well as what he taught.

I hope your sis and Bucky are discussing the cosmos, and coming up with great answers.

O8)

[never cry wolf]

23. Thanks for your condolences

I am sure they are exchanging ideas again!!

[POed_Ex_Repub]

6. I've been a Mensan for 13 years...

Never been to a meeting. :shrug:

[Systematic Chaos]

5. Well, I really WANTED to join Mensa, but....

I went ahead and paid the $30 or whatever it was to take the entrance tests here in Las Vegas back in 2000. I had to take the tests at the local proctor's house, and while she was a very nice lady I suffered just a little bit during the testing process due to the fact that she had two very large and somewhat noisy dogs in her house. However, I got my results in the mail about two weeks later and was happy to see that my results on the two tests were well within the top 2% range at 136 and 139. Mensa had two or three different weekly meetings and because of my schedule the only one I could regularly attend was on Wednesdays and held IN A BAR about 4 miles from my apartment. Each time only about 7 or 8 people were in attendance and while the first meeting was at least marginally interesting (someone had brought photos and footage of a trip they took out into the desert to look for Native American carvings and records on the faces of cliffs and in caves), the second time was so boring I nearly fell asleep. There was nothing of any intrest being discussed and not a single chess or Scrabble board to be seen. No puzzles, no mental exercises, nothing. At that point I knew there was NO WAY I was going to put out the $50 for a year's worth of dues.

I would hope that Mensa isn't that way everywhere and I'm willing to bet that it isn't. But sorry, Charlie, the organization as it's run here did not a thing for me.

[Kamika]

7. omg

Native American carvings !!!

Count me in

[southerngirlwriter]

20. similar story here....

I wanted to join when I was 19. Paid the money, took the tests. I don't think the tests are very accurate, though, because my two results were 25 points apart -- 139 and 164. That seemed waaaaay too big of a spread for the tests to be accurate.

Went to two meetings. They were both very boring and filled with assholes, and after both meetings everyone got shit-faced drunk. I had sobered up by then, and so watching a bunch of assholes get drunk no longer held any interest for me.

[Robb]

8. I gots a card

Mens an' wimmen-folk, too!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. I was MENSA shortly after college, went to a few events

but they bored the living shit out of me, so I quit. There is nothing worse than callous sophisticates who think they are funny.

[rasputin1952]

13. Somehow I knew you were in MENSA...

at one time or another. Why am I not surprised?

:loveya: :hi:

[corporatewhore]

10. i are here!!!

[roughsatori]

11. I've done that mixers club

just so I could pull it out and be obnoxious during arguments. :) I'm smart but sometimes shallow. I was not physically attracted to anyone I met, so did not keep it up (pun not intended). ;)

[RushIsRot]

14. Yup.

Got in while in the Army in 1965. Didn't stay active either. Found the few get-togethers I went to rather uninteresting. Still have my card in my wallet.

[Ramsey]

16. My dad made us join

My brother and sister and I. My bother actually wears his Mensa lapel pin. Personally I thought the whole thing was a bit silly.

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. I qualified in high school, and had the paperwork ready,

but I've never joined, because it would be purely for vanity. I'm too busy to go to meetings, and don't really care to...

Qualifying was enough for me.

[jpgray]

22. I took their test and qualified

But that was years ago. Never joined. It's just IQ 145+ or something, right?

[scarlet_owl]

24. I qualify, but I won't join.

The whole idea seems just a little elitist to me. I don't need to pay to hang out with other smart people. My friend tried to get me psyched about it, but I just don't see the appeal.