Ellen Muth, the star of Dead Like Me, is a member of Mensa and of Intertel (and my future wife).
:mad: Thank you. I am now trying very hard not to think about how the Hedgehog might combine his two distinctive skill-sets.
She doesn’t. She never even went to college. I knew that the Ph.D. is reported on a lot of sites, but it seems to have no rationale, not even an honorary degree. No major site, like Wikipedia or IMDb, reports it. Goldberg rewrites her life story every year so she may have invented this at one time, I suppose. Note that Wiki has her birth year as 1949 and IMDb as 1955. The older year is apparently correct.
Here are the Mensa qualifications. They seem to be before the change in the SAT, but they’re the ones I knew back in the old days. Yes, I qualified easily.
Run the numbers on Mensa. They take the top 2%. That’s about 4,000,000 adults in the U.S. Maybe 80,000,000 worldwide.
Harvard graduates about 1500 people per year. There may be 100,000 living graduates. Does anybody believe that every single Harvard graduate is a genius? Even if you did, you’d get to 5% of Mensa qualifiers. So you’d have to take the equivalent of every single living graduate of the top 40 colleges just to fill up the slots.
Smart people are a dime a dozen. There are literally millions of them. It’s not a terribly exclusive group. Mensa doesn’t impress anybody. That’s probably why only 100,000 of those 80,000,000 are members.
Jeff Foxworthy of “You might be a redneck…” fame, has a degree in engineering from Georgia Tech.
I guess it depends on how low you set the bar for genius. I don’t see a PhD and assume genius, and I don’t expect anyone to assume that much with me. Many PhD’s study a very narrow region of their field, beyond which you really can’t expect anything more than what I would call a basic understanding of science.
Whoopi Goldberg doesn’t have a Ph.D. in anything. The last time we did a thread like this we checked out that story. It’s probably somebody confusing her with one of the characters she did in her early one-woman shows. One character was supposed to be something like an English Ph.D. who ended up homeless. Somebody got the confused idea that this was really true of Goldberg.
Neither Alicia Witt nor James Woods has an I.Q. of 180. 180 is an absurdly rare I.Q. It’s too high to be measurable by any reliable I.Q. test. There’s a lot of attributing ridiculously high I.Q. scores to people. These are examples of this.
Yeah, I’ve never read that anywhere either. According to STUK (Sick Things UK – about a little bit before the half way mark):
Sept. 66 Vince enters Glendale community College as an Art major. He drops out in spring 67 as more gigs start to come their way. At Glendale they met Mike Allen (who roadied for the band for the next four years), Dick Christian (who became their unofficial manager) and Charlie Carnel (also ex-Cortez who would do the lights for the next five years and actual become an equal member of the band with an equal share of money).
Dylan Bruno plays Colby, the jock FBI agent, on “NUMB3RS”. So it’s kind of ironic that he has a degree in environmental engineering from MIT.
It may not have been Cooper. I do remember hearing once that one of the more controversial shock rockers was Juilliard schooled. Which was uprgaded from hearsay to confirmed when I later looked it up. Just drawing a complete blank at the moment as to who it was. I thought it was Alice Cooper, but it’ll bug me until I work it out now.
anybody else thinking that is the basis for a Hey Bubba, watch this joke?