How many posters on SDMB actually have credentials to prove how "smart" they are?

If you’re asking me for a resume, then just e-mail me at my listed address and I’ll send you one (I don’t have one typed up right now, so give me a week or so–but I’ll get the references)

Other than that, I’ve spent over four years working for Engineers in the employ of the US Air Force, some of which has been in less-than-ideal conditions, with more to come.

You’ve got my word that I’m not going to comment on something I don’t know about [sub]but you may get an informed opinion or a smartass remark[/sub]. I know enough about enough to get by, but I’ll give you a no-shit answer on what I know. That’s it.

Tripler
Credentials be damned. Most of us have knowledge in places we never get black-and-white credit for.

Alas, I live not in New Zealand. However, I did see a guy walking down the sidewalk playing the bagpipes just last week; that should count for something.

National Merit Scholarship For Academic Achievement.
Top 1/10 of 1% of all High School Students In America, 1984.

Okay, here are some impressive credentials:

I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees. I write award-winning operas. I manage time efficiently.

Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing. I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I’m bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening-wear. I don’t perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400.

My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA. I sleep once a week; and when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami. Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a toaster oven.

I breed prize-winning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college.


This allegedly was someone’s actual college application.
An SDMB member posted something similar to this a few months ago and that’s how I heard about it. Here’s a cite:
http://www.aarons-jokes.com/joke-5091.shtml

I was really impressed, wolf until I re-read your post and noticed this following impossible contradiction:

Now, I do not even believe you’ve spoken to Elvis.

I think I’ve got collitis.

Colitis?

Three to prove my wit: [ol]
[li]I qualify for Mensa[/li][li]I didn’t join Mensa because I thought Mensans were arrogant[/li][li]I went to a Mensa party and joined for the good parties, vicious card playing, and lovely Mensan men! (Oh, Cabana Boy!:smiley: )[/li][/ol]

CJ, card-carrying geek!

To pave the way to a new tomorrow, I have just enrolled as a student here. We Betazoid Empaths just love this stuff!