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From: mms1646@acf4.UUCP (Michael M. Sykora)
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Subject: Re: XSO IQ (Really teachers...)
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Date: Thu, 4-Jul-85 05:35:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul  4 05:35:00 1985
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>/* hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) /  4:40 pm  Jul  2, 1985 */

>What about quiz show contestants and Trivial  Persuit  players?

It seems to me that showing off more tolerable from quiz show contestants
because they are entertainers in a sense and they are making money.

>Apparently showing off is acceptable in a context where it's expected.

Personally, I find showing off most distasteful in the context of personal
relationships, i.e., friendships.  Perhaps I expect it least there.

Incidentally, upon thinking about it, I came to the realization that you
might be right about there being a double standard in our society
regarding intellectual vs. athletic showing off, and I suspect that
at least part of the reason for this doub;le standard is the
anti-intellectual strain in American popular culture that you brought up.

						Mike Sykora