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Title: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: tomk on February 22, 2008, 07:10:29 PM
Thought you'd like to know that "All In The Family" was rated as one of Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows.   Can you believe that? 
Here is the link.. http://thebiz.fancast.com/2008/02/exclusive_mensa_chair_picks_th.html (http://thebiz.fancast.com/2008/02/exclusive_mensa_chair_picks_th.html) 





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Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: John Junk on February 22, 2008, 07:16:54 PM
Humor.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: masterofsparks on February 22, 2008, 07:36:52 PM
Mad About You?
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Stupornaut on February 22, 2008, 07:54:28 PM
Quote from: smart peoples
3. CSI -- The way they use science to solve their programs is intriguing to viewers.

Intrigue! (http://www.tv.com/csi-ny/grand-master/episode/356991/recap.html)
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: MartinVanB on February 22, 2008, 07:55:08 PM
What, no Wire?
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Phantom Hugger on February 22, 2008, 10:12:59 PM
When I moved into my house I kept getting all this Mensa mail for the previous owner. I'm not trying to knock any Mensaniacs that happen to be FOT...but it kinda seemed like a pyramid scheme for little geniuses.

I don't know if the previous owners were geniuses or not but I can confirm they were shameless nudists.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Gilly on February 22, 2008, 10:13:48 PM
Where's Head of the Class? Watching people who are supposed to be geniuses make you a genius too right?
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: buffcoat on February 23, 2008, 05:48:22 PM
When I discovered my 9th grad physics teacher was in Mensa I vowed to never join.  And I kept that vow.



Which, honestly, was pretty easy.  I suppose they're harmless, but I sort of think of Mensa and big-L Libertarians in the same sense.  We have some things in common, but they take themselves way too seriously and they want you to hew a little too close to whatever bizarre line they are walking.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Julie on February 28, 2008, 08:57:08 PM
When I moved into my house I kept getting all this Mensa mail for the previous owner. I'm not trying to knock any Mensaniacs that happen to be FOT...but it kinda seemed like a pyramid scheme for little geniuses.

I don't know if the previous owners were geniuses or not but I can confirm they were shameless nudists.
I know a lot of geniuses because a lot of smart people are in my field. There is a huge difference between the geniuses in Mensa and the geniuses with social skills. Based on my experience (n=2), a good brain teaser for Mensa members would be solving the puzzle of what "Get the eff out of my office because I'm working and this has nothing to do with you" means. (hint for any Mensa members reading this: it doesn't mean stand in my doorway and make bad puns until I want to commit felonious assault.) Other geniuses I know can pick up subtle clues like that with no problem.
But maybe you shouldn't listen to me about this because I'm really jealous. I'd trade my sparkling personality for 30 more IQ points any day.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on February 28, 2008, 09:12:51 PM
I'm gonna try to get in.  Maybe if I have a piece of paper saying I'm a genius I'll feel better about my poor social skills.  I'll also have something to lord over common slobs like Julie.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Julie on February 28, 2008, 09:22:55 PM
I'm gonna try to get in.  Maybe if I have a piece of paper saying I'm a genius I'll feel better about my poor social skills.  I'll also have something to lord over common slobs like Julie.
You only have to pass a stupid test, Dorvid. I have no respect for people who can do things I can do, so lording that over me would be a waste of your time. But it might make you feel good about yourself to imagine that I would feel bad about myself because you could pass a test that I passed when I was 12. I was never common enough to need the piece of paper, but best of luck.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: KickTheBobo on February 28, 2008, 10:20:57 PM
You only have to pass a stupid test, Dorvid. I have no respect for people who can do things I can do, so lording that over me would be a waste of your time. But it might make you feel good about yourself to imagine that I would feel bad about myself because you could pass a test that I passed when I was 12. I was never common enough to need the piece of paper, but best of luck.

booyaa!

[youtube]WzmTOCFnMgg[/youtube]
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Matt on February 28, 2008, 10:39:04 PM
You only have to pass a stupid test, Dorvid. I have no respect for people who can do things I can do, so lording that over me would be a waste of your time. But it might make you feel good about yourself to imagine that I would feel bad about myself because you could pass a test that I passed when I was 12. I was never common enough to need the piece of paper, but best of luck.

booyaa!

[youtube]WzmTOCFnMgg[/youtube]

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=hcT-GWWSLAo[/youtube]
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on March 01, 2008, 03:58:54 AM
You only have to pass a stupid test, Dorvid. I have no respect for people who can do things I can do, so lording that over me would be a waste of your time. But it might make you feel good about yourself to imagine that I would feel bad about myself because you could pass a test that I passed when I was 12. I was never common enough to need the piece of paper, but best of luck.

Plans for March:

1) Attempt to become the first person to join Mensa out of pure spite.
2) Vote for better TV shows.
3) Have "respect for people who can do things I can do."
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Emily on March 01, 2008, 09:12:32 AM
what a bunch of dummies. a tv show can't be smart because it doesn't even have a brain. its inanimate. duh.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Sploops on March 01, 2008, 10:23:53 AM
I'm gonna try to get in.  Maybe if I have a piece of paper saying I'm a genius I'll feel better about my poor social skills.  I'll also have something to lord over common slobs like Julie.
You only have to pass a stupid test, Dorvid. I have no respect for people who can do things I can do, so lording that over me would be a waste of your time. But it might make you feel good about yourself to imagine that I would feel bad about myself because you could pass a test that I passed when I was 12. I was never common enough to need the piece of paper, but best of luck.

So you're telling me you passed the mensa test and you passed it when you were just 12?  Wowzers!  You're smart! 
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: todd on March 01, 2008, 02:52:08 PM
I'm gonna try to get in.  Maybe if I have a piece of paper saying I'm a genius I'll feel better about my poor social skills.  I'll also have something to lord over common slobs like Julie.
You only have to pass a stupid test, Dorvid. I have no respect for people who can do things I can do, so lording that over me would be a waste of your time. But it might make you feel good about yourself to imagine that I would feel bad about myself because you could pass a test that I passed when I was 12. I was never common enough to need the piece of paper, but best of luck.

So you're telling me you passed the mensa test and you passed it when you were just 12?  Wowzers!  You're smart! 

And yet when she calls, she still stutters and mumbles like she has frontal lobe damage.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: masterofsparks on March 01, 2008, 03:24:18 PM
I'm gonna try to get in.  Maybe if I have a piece of paper saying I'm a genius I'll feel better about my poor social skills.  I'll also have something to lord over common slobs like Julie.
You only have to pass a stupid test, Dorvid. I have no respect for people who can do things I can do, so lording that over me would be a waste of your time. But it might make you feel good about yourself to imagine that I would feel bad about myself because you could pass a test that I passed when I was 12. I was never common enough to need the piece of paper, but best of luck.

So you're telling me you passed the mensa test and you passed it when you were just 12?  Wowzers!  You're smart! 

And yet when she calls, she still stutters and mumbles like she has frontal lobe damage.

Alcohol's a hell of a drug.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Man Machine on March 02, 2008, 02:12:56 AM
I'm gonna try to get in.  Maybe if I have a piece of paper saying I'm a genius I'll feel better about my poor social skills.  I'll also have something to lord over common slobs like Julie.
You only have to pass a stupid test, Dorvid. I have no respect for people who can do things I can do, so lording that over me would be a waste of your time. But it might make you feel good about yourself to imagine that I would feel bad about myself because you could pass a test that I passed when I was 12. I was never common enough to need the piece of paper, but best of luck.

So you're telling me you passed the mensa test and you passed it when you were just 12?  Wowzers!  You're smart! 

And yet when she calls, she still stutters and mumbles like she has frontal lobe damage.

Alcohol's a hell of a drug.
Oh come on, she's not the devil...
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Regular Joe on March 02, 2008, 07:56:42 AM
Oh come on, she's not the devil...

She may not be THE devil, but she certainly torments the hell out of my ears, qualifying her to be MY devil, at the very least. Also, her icon is of the worst part of a dog.

PS: If she is hot, all is forgiven. This applies to all women who want to torment me.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on March 02, 2008, 07:49:47 PM
Plans for March:

1) Attempt to become the first person to join Mensa out of pure spite.

Dude, not to take the wind out of your sails, but I think this describes like 2/3 of the Mensa membership at any given moment.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Phantom Hugger on March 02, 2008, 09:28:58 PM
Oh come on, she's not the devil...

 Also, her icon is of the worst part of a dog.

PS: If she is hot, all is forgiven. This applies to all women who want to torment me.

You don't like the pink bubblegum parts of dogs?

Go die in a car fire.

Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Regular Joe on March 02, 2008, 11:34:17 PM
Oh come on, she's not the devil...

 Also, her icon is of the worst part of a dog.

PS: If she is hot, all is forgiven. This applies to all women who want to torment me.

You don't like the pink bubblegum parts of dogs?

Go die in a car fire.



It looks like a slobbery tongue to me (with the rusty hair around it), and a slimy wet nose.

I will not go die in a car fire, unless you are already burning in there first and I kill myself trying to save your ass, which will make me a tragic hero, and you a drunken mess who set themselves on fire.

Edit: Jerk.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Stan on March 03, 2008, 12:18:33 AM
Oh come on, she's not the devil...

 Also, her icon is of the worst part of a dog.

PS: If she is hot, all is forgiven. This applies to all women who want to torment me.

You don't like the pink bubblegum parts of dogs?

Go die in a car fire.



It looks like a slobbery tongue to me (with the rusty hair around it), and a slimy wet nose.

I will not go die in a car fire, unless you are already burning in there first and I kill myself trying to save your ass, which will make me a tragic hero, and you a drunken mess who set themselves on fire.

Edit: Jerk.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/alembic14/583737_356x237.jpg)

 Good times, eh?

 Good times.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: jane on March 03, 2008, 09:57:47 PM
Veggie Canadian Bacon rocks!
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Pat K on March 04, 2008, 10:00:28 AM
Other than "Cosmos", I'm surprised this genius didn't include anything that was actually, you know, informative or educational in his list of Smartest Shows. Hard to believe that "Boston Legal" beat out, say, "NOVA" or "Frontline".
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: masterofsparks on March 04, 2008, 05:14:49 PM
I repeat:

Mad About You?
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Stan on March 05, 2008, 12:13:57 AM
I repeat:

Mad About You?

 As Paul Reiser would (probably) say, "Mensa shmensa, feh".
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on March 05, 2008, 09:32:25 PM
I repeat:

Mad About You?



 As Paul Reiser would (probably) say, "Mensa shmensa, feh".

Chuckle!  Oh, that Paul Reiser.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on March 07, 2008, 10:47:26 PM
Clearly none of those eggheads ever saw Herman's Head.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Richard_From_CHI on March 09, 2008, 12:13:17 PM
Seinfeld?!? Seriously?
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Julie on March 10, 2008, 01:06:49 PM
I'm gonna try to get in.  Maybe if I have a piece of paper saying I'm a genius I'll feel better about my poor social skills.  I'll also have something to lord over common slobs like Julie.
You only have to pass a stupid test, Dorvid. I have no respect for people who can do things I can do, so lording that over me would be a waste of your time. But it might make you feel good about yourself to imagine that I would feel bad about myself because you could pass a test that I passed when I was 12. I was never common enough to need the piece of paper, but best of luck.
I lied.

So you're telling me you passed the mensa test and you passed it when you were just 12?  Wowzers!  You're smart! 
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Julie on March 10, 2008, 01:09:04 PM
You only have to pass a stupid test, Dorvid. I have no respect for people who can do things I can do, so lording that over me would be a waste of your time. But it might make you feel good about yourself to imagine that I would feel bad about myself because you could pass a test that I passed when I was 12. I was never common enough to need the piece of paper, but best of luck.

Plans for March:

1) Attempt to become the first person to join Mensa out of pure spite.
2) Vote for better TV shows.
3) Have "respect for people who can do things I can do."
Maybe you should try to have respect for common slobs like me who can do things you can't do, too.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Julie on March 10, 2008, 01:11:39 PM
I'm gonna try to get in.  Maybe if I have a piece of paper saying I'm a genius I'll feel better about my poor social skills.  I'll also have something to lord over common slobs like Julie.
You only have to pass a stupid test, Dorvid. I have no respect for people who can do things I can do, so lording that over me would be a waste of your time. But it might make you feel good about yourself to imagine that I would feel bad about myself because you could pass a test that I passed when I was 12. I was never common enough to need the piece of paper, but best of luck.
So you're telling me you passed the mensa test and you passed it when you were just 12?  Wowzers!  You're smart! 

And yet when she calls, she still stutters and mumbles like she has frontal lobe damage.
That's because I'm socially awkward. And drunk.
Title: Re: Mensa's top 10 smartest TV shows
Post by: Julie on March 10, 2008, 01:23:16 PM
Oh come on, she's not the devil...

She may not be THE devil, but she certainly torments the hell out of my ears, qualifying her to be MY devil, at the very least. Also, her icon is of the worst part of a dog.

PS: If she is hot, all is forgiven. This applies to all women who want to torment me.

I am morbidly obese and have pimples all over my back. I have back breasts. My hair is oily, thin, dull, and straigt. But I do have straight teeth. I love my dog's snout. I hate you. I am going to call as often as I can just so that my voice and stupid way of talking plagues your dreams.