Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 3/23/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!cbosgd!rbg From: rbg@cbosgd.UUCP (Richard Goldschmidt) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Intelligent and single women Message-ID: <21@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 11:26:20 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.21 Posted: Thu Jun 14 11:26:20 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 01:00:45 EDT References: <802@shark.UUCP> <1045@nsc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 17 Chuq: I hate to tell you this, but the brain uses only about 25 watts. So if your date has "a 45 watt bulb upstairs", she's working overtime... But more seriously, there is a real difference between interesting and intelligent. I dated a nurse for more than a year who had a great personality, was warm and sociable and interesting, but not in the same league intellectually. She was curious and asked about my work and other interests, but it seemed like talking into a black hole. The explanations were all at a low level (thus long-winded and boring for me), "information" flow was one way, and it didn't seem like she had much to teach me. The world of ideas is important to me, and I would rather spend my time with someone who will also contribute. They are around, but they are at least as hard to find as intelligent men. Rich Goldschmidt --a former brain hacker (now reformed?) cbosgd!rbg