MENSA

If it'll help you bond with fellow MENSA-ite Sharon Stone, go for it.

 

Hard to imagine you could spent much time on this board and then need to ask if any of us are in Mensa.

 

Don't Mensa me, bro!

 

And Geena Davis.

 

Yep. Triple Nine Society. For the .999 percentile, I assume.

 

Classic.

 

We had a MENSA member on our copy desk. But I don't know how anyone found out. The guy never said a word for 10 years.

 

George O'Leary put it on his.

 

The only sports journalist I've known who admitted being a member was a very good guy and a very good deskman. I forget what it was, he either spent one week in college or two, he was bored and quit. I think he joined so he could meet brainy women in an unfamiliar city, and I must admit I considered taking the test because brainy women were my intended quarry when I was single. But I'm not a joiner and I don't think I've ever taken an IQ test, unless it was in grammar school. I have no idea if I'd qualify or not, and at this point in life I wouldn't have time to hobnob with the brainy types anyway.

 

I worked with one who had two Master's degrees, one of them from an Ivy. She spent a great deal of time trying to impress everyone with how smart she was. I wanted so badly to point out that I was making $5,000 more than she was after barely acquiring an undergrad degree. Thus, who's the smart one?

 

Once played in a charity Scrabble tournament (who knew), and one of the teams was from the local MENSA club. Pretty good at finding two-letter words, I must say, but their group did not win.

 

1) Yes

2) Not a chance in hell, and all of the above responses just prove how right I am.