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From: rbg@cbosgd.UUCP (Richard Goldschmidt)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Intelligent and single women
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Date: Thu, 14-Jun-84 11:26:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 14 11:26:20 1984
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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?)
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