Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 19:22:42 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Strong's Conjecture
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

I've said and I've said and I've said.

"Average IQ is 100"

"100 is damn dumb."

At 08:48 AM 06/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>         My comment about it being nice to listen to a discussion among
>"people with triple digit I.Q.'s" was intended as a compliment to WSFA
>contrasting it favorably with various mundane institutions such as the
>Federal Government in which presumably intelligent people **act** as if
>their IQ's were double digits.  For example, on Monday of this week, I asked
>our agency budgeteers what was the status of a certain budget action.  They
>didn't know so they asked my office to tell them!  Yesterday, a separate
>person asked me if I had finished writing a statement of work for a contract
>to hire a contractor to perform a customer survey.  I said Naw, I just wrote
>the survey myself.  She shook her head in amazement that someone could
>function without a contractor to hold his hand and blow his nose.  When you
>wade thru this crap week after week after week, reading the mathbugs'
>discussing Goldbach's Conjecture is like suddently breathing oxygen after
>surviving on carbon dioxide.
>         And now, if you will excuse me, I have to go run the beta test of
>the customer survey in question.  I have to hurry because the scheduled
>completion date of 31 December 2002 is right around the corner.  And I guess
>I'd better figure how to tell the budgeteers that we won't be spending
>$250,000 of the taxpayers' money on this project after all....

Candy