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Re: Rotaries (aka Traffic Circles)
Posted By: Paul A., on host 130.95.128.6
Date: Saturday, August 28, 1999, at 03:46:41
In Reply To: Re: Rotaries (aka Traffic Circles) posted by Darien on Friday, August 27, 1999, at 13:18:44:

> > > Hmm. I thought it was fourteen-year-old female posters. I'm definitely a moron. And, if it
> > > makes you feel not-so-too-young, I'm an eighteen-year-old junior. In college.
> >
> > Who, I deduce, is not studying Psychology.
>
> What makes us say that?

Because this is the perfect moment to point out that back in the days when "moron" was actually a scientific classification, it referred to the *least* extreme level of mental disability.
Idiots, in strict scientific terminology, are more retarded than morons.

Your use of the term "moron" without any mention of all this suggested to me that you were unaware of it.

Paul

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