Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!ihnp4!nsc!srm From: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Any Mensans? Message-ID: <1941@nsc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 10:41:10 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.1941 Posted: Sun Dec 2 10:41:10 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 05:46:42 EST References: <1708@ucf-cs.UUCP> <3300001@down.FUN><530@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> <512@ccice2.UUCP> <> Reply-To: srm@nsc.UUCP (Richard Mateosian) Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 25 Summary: In article <681@sjuvax.UUCP> bbanerje@sjuvax.UUCP (B. Banerjee) writes: >Mensans hang out with mensans because non >mensans are so incredibly dull, boring and boorish. I wouldn't be >surprised if most of them were maladjusted individuals who couldn't >interact with society as a whole; and therefore form their own little >society. When I joined Mensa in San Francisco in the early 1960s, it was an active group of not especially maladjusted individuals. They were interesting, intelligent, active in the community. The activities were mostly for fun (like Serena Jutkowitz' gourmet dining group), but there were serious activities too -- especially around the problems that isolated high-IQ children face. I remember the first Mensa meeting I ever attended. It was at the elegant Pacific Heights home of the later infamous and now deceased Jeremy Ets-Hokin. Someone gave a talk with slides about the Comedia dell'Arte. Then coffee was served and people mingled and talked. I'm a life member, so I still get Mensa periodicals, even though I haven't attended anything in a long time. They seem to be just as lively and interesting as ever. -- Richard Mateosian {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!srm nsc!srm@decwrl.ARPA