What, you mean you don't want a doctor with no more than a high school education? ;)

The "you poor thing" comment is actually from something that happened the last time we went out together. I had a sweet tooth. So we bought candy (after unwrapping it of course so it was unsalvageable). But being the klutz I occasionaly (okay, often) am, I dropped it. "You poor thing" was from the guy behind the counter, in reference to me dropping my candy... as he stared down my shirt.

Hey you only ever told me the score you got while you were bored and distracted. :P

Getting the point fail.

Hawking is the person with the only IQ close enough to come near that "twice as much" range, given he's got the highest IQ of anybody either of us can think of currently alive.

I suppose he could have said "nobody is twice as smart as we are" but using an actual person to illustrate works better.

Find me somebody with a 300 IQ and maybe we'll use them in the example instead.

9 points, dear. We're within 9 points of each other. :P You keep wanting to forget that extra 4. *giggles and pokes at you*

*snickers* Ideas, sure. ;) Hoping one of my "ideas" will "slip out"? :P

Though speaking of, there's apparently a movement going across the nation where women are trying to get the right to go topless, since men are allowed in most places to wander about without shirts and not get arrested. Now there's a fashion statement I'm sure some folks would love to catch on.

Smart women do not mate any differently from normal women, no. However you have to consider that biological drives also seem geared toward fitness. Humans evolved as an intelligent species because intelligence was a trait that assisted with survival. Therefore somebody smarter is now seen as a more fit mate, because smarter children will be more likely to survive long enough to mate and have more children and pass on the bloodline. If we look at pure biology, that's what life is all about: screwing somebody who will make babies that will live long enough to screw and make more babies.

Of course at the moment I'm ignoring the Idiocracy theory, since there are a lot of biological processes that have not quite caught up with the modern world. Just look at all the stress responses that have become maladaptive now that our stressors involve sitting at a desk instead of running from something that's going to eat us.

I do NOT act like that, thanks very much.

We talk science, politics, computers, and all else. We met in college for fuck's sake. No, not in a sorority.

Yeah, I sometimes have my cleavage showing and wear makeup... didn't really start that until after we were dating though. God forbid I want to look nice. What, we can't be both attractive and smart at the same time?

And yes, of the two of us, my IQ's higher. ;) Naturally I have to pick on him about this now and then. Though to get a woman *twice* as smart he'd probably have to drink a hell of a lot of alcohol and kill a fair few brain cells since we're both rather high up on the scale.

(This would be bladesjester's girlfriend of... shit, how many years has it been now? are we up to four?).

As far as "to thine own self be true"... don't think I've ever met anybody truer to himself, quite frankly. There's more than enough posers in the world, I certainly don't want to be dating one.

I'll have to go with your judgement on that I suppose. I never saw it. It's one of those things I'd like to see at least once, though, if onyl to see what all the fuss is about.