Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Intelligence (in high school?) Message-ID: <511@unc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 14:47:57 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.511 Posted: Fri Jun 28 14:47:57 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 03:32:02 EDT References: <954@homxa.UUCP> <1560078@acf4.UUCP>Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 23 Summary: 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