Originally published in Much Ado About Mensa, 2005. I’ve thought about it a bit and have decided that free will just doesn’t exist. You’re probably thinking, now hold on there – if he made a decision about free will then he just exercised it. Nope, it just seems that way. Let me explain. To me …
Category: Humor
The Bottom 2%
Originally published in Much Ado About Mensa, October 2004, Vol. 34, No. 10 You’re in Mensa. So how does it feel to be in the top 2% of the population? When you were first notified you qualified for membership, did you feel vindicated that your intelligence was finally recognized? Did you feel like it was …
Little Huey Versus the Giant Mantis
It was my second summer working for Reardan Grain Growers, the local grain storage co-op. The previous summer I had demonstrated that I could operate a shovel, so I was invited back early in the season to help the regular crew empty the grain elevators before harvest began. This primarily involved shoveling grain bins, and …
Mensan Refuses to Join Triple Nine Society
To show his solidarity with fellow GPM members, Axel Stonebury has declared that he will never join the high-IQ organization known as the Triple Nine Society. The triple nines in the society’s name refer to its membership requirement that candidates score in the top 99.9th percentile on an approved intelligence test. To Axel Stonebury, this …
Gordon Tyus 