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Old 07-21-2004, 02:27 PM   #1
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Does being smart make you ugly?

I think so....


I should not have made fun of Steven Hawking...He's kind of a celebrity so I thought he was fair game...
I should have gone with Ken Jennings from the start

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Old 07-21-2004, 02:59 PM   #2
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I guess the opposite holds true too., the press keeps touting John Edwards as being good looking.
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Old 07-21-2004, 08:25 PM   #3
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I dunno, Joe - if you're that brilliant, looks are pretty much secondary.

Hell, I'm a perfect example......well, alright, not if ya ask Mrs. Crafty, I guess...

"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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Old 07-21-2004, 08:27 PM   #4
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I guess the opposite holds true too., the press keeps touting John Edwards as being good looking.
Yep and then theres bush who is both ugly and stupid
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Old 07-22-2004, 08:54 AM   #5
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Yeah, George the Second is as dumb as a freakin' doorknob - but ya gotta realize it wasn't a beauty contest, it's just nepotism at it's very best -

Or very worst, as the case may be

"There is no royal road to this heavy surf-fishing. With all the appliances for comfort experience can suggest, there is a certain amount of hard work to be done and exposure to be bourne as a part of the price of success." From "Striped Bass," Scribner's Magazine, 1881.
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Old 07-22-2004, 09:58 AM   #6
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I'm amazed Stephen Hawking has made it this far.

Isn't ALS usually fatal?

I hope he gets to figure out his Grand Unification Theory before he leaves this existence.
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Old 07-22-2004, 10:20 AM   #7
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Old 07-22-2004, 12:07 PM   #8
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Going on this theory...I must be BRILLIANT!!!

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Old 07-22-2004, 12:38 PM   #9
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Joe....sorry, that is just plain mean, even if it was in jest.....

The man has an incredible mind, and because he has a particular disease, he just happens to look like that......not to mention that he has gone to great strides to over come his handicap to be able to share his brilliance with the rest of the world.........

Sorry, but ya all gotta grow up a bit.....
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Old 07-22-2004, 01:21 PM   #10
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Yeah, I agree with Steve in Mass. That was a little mean, the poor guy has ALS but because his body is screwed it doesn't mean his mind is. He is one of histories great physicists and thinkers.

Now, that being said, I am very smart and also quite ugly so I guess your basic theory holds water in that way of thinking.

Why even try.........
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Old 07-26-2004, 01:20 PM   #11
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I'm amazed Stephen Hawking has made it this far.

Isn't ALS usually fatal?

I hope he gets to figure out his Grand Unification Theory before he leaves this existence.
I read the other day that he feels his original theories on black holes are incorrect

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Old 07-27-2004, 02:08 PM   #12
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ya his original theories stated that matter that went into black hole could possibly come out in a diff dimension but now he states that they return to our own universe just completely magles
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Old 07-27-2004, 02:16 PM   #13
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I know woman with incredible minds too . they are invisible and ugly .
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Old 07-27-2004, 02:29 PM   #14
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I read that story in this mornings Providence Journal about Hawkings...boy...didn't understand a word of it....duh?
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