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Re: Rotaries (aka Traffic Circles)
Posted By: Darien, on host 140.186.100.71
Date: Saturday, August 28, 1999, at 14:15:38
In Reply To: Re: Rotaries (aka Traffic Circles) posted by unipeg on Saturday, August 28, 1999, at 09:37:01:

> > > > > > 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.
>
> ah, but is that only years down? most people i know, especially in my grade, even if they KNOW my age, think of me as at least 16. does that make them morons? and if they think i'm 17, are they idiots? i wouldn't say so...
>
> uni"but maybe i'm really 4"peg

I dunno then. Most people who know me think I'm nineteen or twenty, while most people who just meet me think I'm about fifteen (I look young). I'm actually eighteen, so nobody ever gets it right.

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