Nah. I was topless in front of his wife. (Well, this was before they got remarried, and, since this was at a pool party, and I’m a guy, no big deal.) She’s also been to my house.
So I still win. 
(And I’m damn glad she never flashed me.)
I was PTA Vice-President, PTA President AND Carnival Chairman!
My fundraising record has YET to be equalled, much less surpassed!
Cyn, OB/GYN RN
Ah, a PhD in Marketing.
For what it’s worth, through grade school and high school, my grades were in the mid to high 90s. I have a BSEE degree (electrical engineering). I won the last ham radio VHF/UHF contest I bothered to enter, using antenna arrays I designed and built (Tilton and NBS Yagis), tuners and power supplies I designed. Back when I still practiced a lot I was a pretty accomplished musician (for an amateur), musical ability supposedly shows intelligence (?). I understand the Zone System. My IQ is around 135-137. At work I am a “resident expert” on certain things. I can even read a contract and make sense out of it.
Twp things to prove my wit.
- I qualify for MENSA.
- I haven’t joined MENSA.
I’ve had a cartoon published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and a limerick published in Dragon Magazine, even though they don’t publish limericks. Got paid for both. Both of them have made people chuckle.
I’ve also co-authored a few journal articles on the production of biogas via the high-solids anaerobic digestion of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste. Those get no chuckles though. Mostly blank stares.
When my kids were little, I’d tell them we were studying bugfarts. That got a chuckle. It also put the subject onto an understandable perspective for them so that the rest of the explainations made some sort of sense. And they could say it to their friends for a laugh.
And before anyone nitpicks - I know that bacteria aren’t bugs. I even know that most insects aren’t ‘true bugs’, at least not according to entomologists. When you hear a digester person say ‘bugs’ you know you’re talking to an engineer and not a microbiologist. Or an entomologist.
We got wallet-size replicas of our diplomas from Carnegie Mellon. It’s like they’re worried that someone wouldn’t believe we really graduated from there.
“I simply don’t believe you graduated from Carnegie Mellon.”
“Look. Here’s proof.”
“Great scott! You did graduate from there! Let me shower you with gifts and sexual favors.”
CBCD: Those seem like very nice schools, dear, but I think that in order to impress the Dopers, you should try for something a little more…intellectual. Try this one instead.
I didn’t learn about most of my “core” subjects in school. My academic qualifications are not spectacular (graduated from a prep school and have an AA, hoping for a BA before long, things published in places other than this one). However, I don’t usually post (note the qualifier) with specific, detailed information unless I am fairly sure I know what I’m talking about.
Well, I got my BA with ‘great distinction’ and got a 3.9 GPA on my most recent academic endeavour, but really that’s only useful if you want something translated or syntax-treed.
Course if you had thought about what I said you would realise how silly that part of your OP (quoted) was.
Dustin Hoffman (the autistic you mention from the movie) was actually called Raymond Babbitt, not “Rainman”. You’re thinking of the scene in the bathtub.
And to compare him as an intellectual in the same light or manner as a John Nash is ludicrous. Raymond is more appropriately an idiot savant.
I have a Ph.D. but I never post about anything in my field.
So my IQ is like 50, I dropped out from High School to deal drugs and chase girls, I joined the air force to test munitions by hitting them with a hammer, dropped out of university because it was boring to do all the work, got a job as a grease monkey in a garage, and now post inane topics for silly imaginary people to read on some far-away message board. Oh, and I was asked to leave both the SAT and the ACT because I smelled so bad.
SO I think I am pretty credible, even without credentials.
Green Bean, thank you for your recomendation.
I took the online entrance exam. They suggested I apply for admission again in another year, after I have more embettered myself.
As if!
- I got a wallet.
- I like Pizza.
I took the SAT’s once … but they caught me and I had to give them back.
Someone mentioned about being successful without an education, well here is a list of famous high school and college dropouts: www.4Y4.com
I do have my own website and I did put a personal page on it:
www.1728.com/prsnl.htm
If you visit the rest of the site www.1728.com you might find something of interest. I wrote the whole thing by the way.
::: shucks … kicking the dirt like Gary Cooper :::
It was supposed to be kind of silly. Look, if I say “Rainman” the entire world knows I am talking about Dustin Hoffmans character and his ability to do crazy shit with numbers.
Just for the record, I happen to know someone who actually did go to Clown College (last time I checked he worked for Barnum & Bailley Circus).
Huh. If you combine us we make the perfect person. 
I was smarter than you when I was in the third grade. Does that count? 161 is the number I was given at eight, but I have a feeling all the years of film school have dumbed me down, as that’s not a ‘real major’ I suspect.
I am entirely amused by this thread, and gratified that the vast majority of participants are failing to take it seriously.
I expect Sam the Eagle to poke his head in any minute and proclaim, “You are all WEIRDOS. Hmph.”
My credentials?
[ul]
[li]I have virtually memorized Monty Python and the Holy Grail and can recite whole scenes on demand, including voice inflections and pregnant pauses.[/li][li]When I was in first grade I got a gold star stuck on my hand for recognizing a pattern of musical phrases.[/li][li]I read Shakespeare for fun. :p[/li][li]I got an A+ on my blood test.[/li][/ul]
Jenaroph - Alas! If only you belonged to this organization you would be perfect! Is there nothing you can do?