Some people just Do Not Get It

I’m still getting follow-up inquiries about admissions testing for Mensa as a result of the “Test the Nation” program on Fox last month, so I’ve scheduled a testing session for August 9th.  One of the prospects lives in College Station, and I’ve recruited her to help me find a venue there I can use to run a testing session, which I’ve wanted to do ever since I first qualified as a proctor.  (TxAnne, that reminds me:  would you be willing to help me find a similar venue in Waco?)

However, I already suspect very strongly that some of these people are not what you’d call Mensa material, because of the imbecilic questions they ask.  Two of the current batch have emailed me wanting to know if there are study guides for the test!  Now, I ask you.  How do they imagine you could study for such a thing, anyway?  The mere notion of a study guide for an intelligence test is as preposterous as trying to “study” for an eye examination, and just about as useful.

Still, we’ll see if they send in their registration fees, and if they do, I’ll go on and give ’em the test, thinking all the time “A fool and his money. . . .”

(I just saw a squirrel run up the pecan tree outside my window, carrying what appeared to be one of the tomatoes from my garden.  No wonder I’m not getting any tomatoes for myself!)

Hugh Grant predicates the Gross Domestic Product on a bowling ball.  Fnord.