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  • 7 73Zeppelin

    Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

    I'm so smart, no titles are worthy enough to be written next to my name.

    There we go!

    Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

    I wish I could have the Master's degree revoked - it's a stupid stain on my resume!

    You think so?

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    Jorgen Sigvardsson
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    The Apocalyptic Teacup wrote:

    You think so?

    Hell yeah. When people see it, they think I'm "a little smarter than average". Since my smartness approaches infinity (I like pushing the envelope..), you quickly realize that such first impressions don't give me enough credit. On the other hand, it's a good thing people don't even try to realize how smart I am. It is along such lines of thinking religions are born (trying to understand the incomprehensible). I couldn't bear all the nagging from all pathetic humans wanting me to perform miracles for them...

    -- Verletzen zerfetzen zersetzen zerstören Doch es darf nicht mir gehören Ich muss zerstören

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      The Apocalyptic Teacup wrote:

      You think so?

      Hell yeah. When people see it, they think I'm "a little smarter than average". Since my smartness approaches infinity (I like pushing the envelope..), you quickly realize that such first impressions don't give me enough credit. On the other hand, it's a good thing people don't even try to realize how smart I am. It is along such lines of thinking religions are born (trying to understand the incomprehensible). I couldn't bear all the nagging from all pathetic humans wanting me to perform miracles for them...

      -- Verletzen zerfetzen zersetzen zerstören Doch es darf nicht mir gehören Ich muss zerstören

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      73Zeppelin
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      Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

      Hell yeah. When people see it, they think I'm "a little smarter than average". Since my smartness approaches infinity (I like pushing the envelope..), you quickly realize that such first impressions don't give me enough credit. On the other hand, it's a good thing people don't even try to realize how smart I am. It is along such lines of thinking religions are born (trying to understand the incomprehensible). I couldn't bear all the nagging from all pathetic humans wanting me to perform miracles for them...

      My God! You have the same problems that I do! Existence like this is extremely difficult, isn't it? It's so taxing being a genius amongst the company of dullards... :sigh: :laugh:

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      • Z Zac Howland

        Not since high school ... and as I recall, I didn't really care for it much when I read it then.

        If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week Zac

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        Red Stateler
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        Me neither, but I can still remember lame little excerpts, making me smarter than you.

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          Red Stateler wrote:

          Unless that situation requires designing a particle accelerator.

          As long as the specialist doesn't run into any situations outside his specialty, he would be better than an universalist. However, life doesn't tend to work that way ... and what is the percentage of people who have jobs in areas outside of the field they earned their degree in?

          If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week Zac

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          73Zeppelin
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          Zac Howland wrote:

          As long as the specialist doesn't run into any situations outside his specialty, he would be better than an universalist. However, life doesn't tend to work that way ... and what is the percentage of people who have jobs in areas outside of the field they earned their degree in?

          I am employed outside of the field I earned my degree in.

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          • 7 73Zeppelin

            Shog9 wrote:

            If you have to ask...

            Ah, but the whole thread was intended to get off the regularly discussed topics, so I made myself a target.

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            Shog9 0
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            And a whole lot of people just had to answer. Including myself. It's a beautiful thing... ;)

            every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?

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              And a whole lot of people just had to answer. Including myself. It's a beautiful thing... ;)

              every night, i kneel at the foot of my bed and thank the Great Overseeing Politicians for protecting my freedoms by reducing their number, as if they were deer in a state park. -- Chris Losinger, Online Poker Players?

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              73Zeppelin
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              Shog9 wrote:

              And a whole lot of people just had to answer. Including myself. It's a beautiful thing...

              Exactly. And it seems my plan worked...brilliantly! ;) No Islam, muslims, conservative politics or the usual crap for a few minutes.

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              • 7 73Zeppelin

                Zac Howland wrote:

                the suffix MD at the end of theirs

                M.D. Moron's Degree ;P

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                Richard Stringer
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                The Apocalyptic Teacup wrote:

                M.D. Moron's Degree

                AD= Assholes degree BS= Bull Shit MS= More Shit PHD= Piled higher and deeper MD= money dammit Richard

                Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of Congress... But I repeat myself. --Mark Twain

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                • 7 73Zeppelin

                  I'm trying to establish demonstrate the fact that I am the smartest person on this message board. So, how many of you other regulars have PhD's, or is it just me (thereby making me the smartest here)? :-D

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                  Reagan Conservative
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                  So what is your PHD in --- psychology? That would make you an oxymoron!

                  John P.

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                  • R Red Stateler

                    Me neither, but I can still remember lame little excerpts, making me smarter than you.

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                    Zac Howland
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                    Red Stateler wrote:

                    Me neither, but I can still remember lame little excerpts, making me smarter than you.

                    Ah, but the differnce isn't that I "can't" remember them ... its that I intentionally purged the crap from my brain after taking my final exams for English that year. I had much better use for that section of my brain than to fill it with garbage from English class ;P

                    If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week Zac

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                    • 7 73Zeppelin

                      Zac Howland wrote:

                      As long as the specialist doesn't run into any situations outside his specialty, he would be better than an universalist. However, life doesn't tend to work that way ... and what is the percentage of people who have jobs in areas outside of the field they earned their degree in?

                      I am employed outside of the field I earned my degree in.

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                      Zac Howland
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                      The Apocalyptic Teacup wrote:

                      I am employed outside of the field I earned my degree in.

                      Which is my point. If you specialize in something, and then don't use that specialty, it is worthless in comparison to a universalist. If memory serves me, I think the statistics were something like 75% of people hold jobs outside of the field of their degree.

                      If you decide to become a software engineer, you are signing up to have a 1/2" piece of silicon tell you exactly how stupid you really are for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week Zac

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                      • 7 73Zeppelin

                        Jonathan [Darka] wrote:

                        A PhD does not mean you are smart

                        Yes it does.

                        Jonathan [Darka] wrote:

                        I know a few PhD's and they are definately not all smart, one of them has 3.

                        Obviously I am smarter than a person with 3 PhD's. Apparently they were too dimwitted to see the redundancy of having 3 degrees. Duh. Besides, doctorates in Basket Weaving, Agricultural Sciences and Psychology don't count as PhD's. So far, this thread confirms my initial hypothesis.

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                        Ray Cassick
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                        The Apocalyptic Teacup wrote:

                        Yes it does.

                        No, it does not. What it means is that you paid a bunch of cash to a school that issued a document specifying that you did the work they required. It does NOT prove you are intelligent at all.


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                        • 7 73Zeppelin

                          I'm trying to establish demonstrate the fact that I am the smartest person on this message board. So, how many of you other regulars have PhD's, or is it just me (thereby making me the smartest here)? :-D

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                          KaRl
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                          Good luck.


                          We're the regulators that de-regulate We're the animators that de-animate

                          Fold with us! ¤ flickr

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                          • 7 73Zeppelin

                            I'm trying to establish demonstrate the fact that I am the smartest person on this message board. So, how many of you other regulars have PhD's, or is it just me (thereby making me the smartest here)? :-D

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                            Maximilien
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                            Chuck Norris can count to infinity, twice; can you do the same ?


                            Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

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                            • K KaRl

                              Good luck.


                              We're the regulators that de-regulate We're the animators that de-animate

                              Fold with us! ¤ flickr

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                              73Zeppelin
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                              K(arl) wrote:

                              Good luck.

                              Oh, I fully expect massive blow-back from this post. God forbid I offer some different (and humourous) alternative to the usual crap!

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                              • R Ray Cassick

                                The Apocalyptic Teacup wrote:

                                Yes it does.

                                No, it does not. What it means is that you paid a bunch of cash to a school that issued a document specifying that you did the work they required. It does NOT prove you are intelligent at all.


                                My Blog[^]
                                FFRF[^]


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                                73Zeppelin
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                                Ray Cassick wrote:

                                No, it does not. What it means is that you paid a bunch of cash to a school that issued a document specifying that you did the work they required. It does NOT prove you are intelligent at all.

                                :laugh: It's funny how some people can't distinguish tongue-in-cheek threads. Relax, I'm just trying to change the tune here. I'm not looking for arguments. :rolleyes:

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                                • R Red Stateler

                                  Mark Clifton doesn't have a PhD, but he's smarter than you. ;P

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                                  Adnan Siddiqi
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                                  Red Stateler wrote:

                                  he's smarter

                                  And amazing thing is that he appear as a hippy.

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                                    Red Stateler wrote:

                                    he's smarter

                                    And amazing thing is that he appear as a hippy.

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                                    Allah On Acid
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                                    Adnan Siddiqi wrote:

                                    And amazing thing is that he appear as a hippy.

                                    Do you even know what a hippie is?

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                                    • 7 73Zeppelin

                                      I'm trying to establish demonstrate the fact that I am the smartest person on this message board. So, how many of you other regulars have PhD's, or is it just me (thereby making me the smartest here)? :-D

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                                      Mark Salsbery
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                                      I swear I hear your voice as Vizzini (A Princess Bride) Vizzini: I can't compete with you physically, and you're no match for my brains. Westley: You're that smart? Vizzini: Let me put it this way. Have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates? Westley: Yes. Vizzini: Morons. :laugh:

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                                      • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                                        Your name alone is worth about 10 PhD's... :-D

                                        -- Verletzen zerfetzen zersetzen zerstören Doch es darf nicht mir gehören Ich muss zerstören

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                                        hairy_hats
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                                        Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

                                        Your name alone is worth about 10 PhD's...

                                        :laugh: But it's so common...there were even two in my year at school which made things confusing. BTW, I've managed to trace my family tree back to one Eystein Glumra Ivarsson around the year 800 - maybe we're related? :laugh:

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                                          Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

                                          Your name alone is worth about 10 PhD's...

                                          :laugh: But it's so common...there were even two in my year at school which made things confusing. BTW, I've managed to trace my family tree back to one Eystein Glumra Ivarsson around the year 800 - maybe we're related? :laugh:

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                                          Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                          Steve_Harris wrote:

                                          maybe we're related?

                                          Could be, could be! The year seem to match the Viking tour! Do you know from which nordic country tribe/geographic area Ivarsson came from?

                                          -- Verletzen zerfetzen zersetzen zerstören Doch es darf nicht mir gehören Ich muss zerstören

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