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Skriven 2013-07-11 02:49:56 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
   Kommentar till text 2315 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: pun my word 848
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 09 Jul 13  11:07:00 <=-

 NB>> Dr. Samuel Adams Elder... generally known as Professor Elder, I think,
 NB>> at the Academy...  and as Uncle Sam to us...
 ML> You could have called him your Elder, or perhaps your
 ML> Samuel Adams.
 
Ah, but he was the youngest Elder Elder... Daddy was the eldest Elder
Elder...  :) 

 ML>> Good with test tubes, bad with life.
 NB>> Yeah, some people never quite make the transition/translation...
 ML> I once read an article that indignantly asserted that the
 ML> stereotypes of the absent-minded or nutty professor and the
 ML> tortured genius were NOT TRUE, and that high IQ people were
 ML> BETTER ADJUSTED THAN OTHER PEOPLE and VERY SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE
 ML> and HEALTHIER AND HAPPIER THAN ANYONE ELSE and HAVE SMARTER
 ML> CHILDREN, YOU HAD BETTER BELIEVE IT, and that really was pretty
 ML> much the tone of it. Figured it was written by a Harvard grad's
 ML> kid who didn't get into Harvard or something.

Probably... methinks he protesteth too greatly... :)  I once had an
otherwise reasonably intelligent biology teacher that was reading me the
riot act because I wasn't performing to his expectations, given that my
parents were such intelligent people... obviously I wasn't doing my
best, because I HAD to be a whiz in biology thereby...  Yes, he knew the
familiy personally...  ;0

 ML>> recipe, you get a bunch of hits, but most of them are for
 ML>> pork and dill - Google in its wisdom adds results with
 ML>> the word "weed" as well as for the requested one.
 NB>> Wisdom just isn't what it used to be... ;(

 ML> I've discovered over the years that health is necessary, wealth
 ML> is desirable, and wisdom is much overrated.

Especially certain sorts of "wisdom"...  :)

ttyl         neb

... Taglines are going to the dogs when they're this arf-ful!
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