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From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Intelligence (in high school?)
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Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 14:47:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 28 14:47:57 1985
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Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann)
Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill
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In article  megann@ihuxi.UUCP (Meg McRoberts) writes:
>Just an observation. . .  i quite agree with the current discussion,
>that those old high school nerds grew up to be MUCH more interesting
>people than those old football-team captains and other BMOCs.

If that is the case, then perhaps we were also MUCH more interesting
even back then.  Too bad nobody noticed.

>But, judging from previous discussions on the net, the male ex-nerds still
>want to date the head cheerleader.

It's not that we still want them so much, it's that we want them to want us.
Otherwise, our adolescent humiliations remain unavenged.

>Why do we celebrate the brilliance of the male nerds, but value beauty
>above all else for the women?

I don't understand it myself.  The older and more educated I become,
the more important becomes intelligence and education in a SO.  But,
this only _INCREASES_ my problems, because now I must seek _BOTH_
brains _AND_ beauty.

	Frank Silbermann