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Re: Rotaries (aka Traffic Circles)
Posted By: Darien, on host 140.186.100.113
Date: Saturday, August 28, 1999, at 03:53:38
In Reply To: Re: Rotaries (aka Traffic Circles) posted by Paul A. on Saturday, August 28, 1999, at 03:46:41:

> > > > 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.

Well, I don't particularly think that messing up Uni's age by one year qualifies me as a full-fledged idiot. *Two* years, maybe, but for just one I think I'm only a moron.

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