# KellyM, your ignorance astounds me. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 29, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544 "2002-12-29T21:12:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/21 "2002-12-30T01:42:52Z")
You mean you don’t mix it in with the bong water? :smack: So much for my 156 😃 case closed, back to the topic whilst I wipe the drool from my chin. ---
**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/22 "2002-12-30T01:44:22Z")
156? Your post count is only 153. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/23 "2002-12-30T01:48:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flood \* > \*\*156? Your post count is only 153. 🙂 \*\* At least it’s easier to increase your post count than it is your IQ. Just ask **handy**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/24 "2002-12-30T01:50:19Z")
KellyM, your ignorance astounds me. And now, back to your regularly scheduled bitchslapping. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/25 "2002-12-30T01:50:19Z")
::remembers the night the boys were so desperate they drank the bong water:: ::shudders:: ---
**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/26 "2002-12-30T01:53:57Z")
Wait. What the HELL were we talking about in the first place. Ah, how quickly a thread changes from ranting like madmen to recalling stories like incompetent burnouts. I LOVE this board. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/27 "2002-12-30T02:08:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Primaflora \* > \*\*::remembers the night the boys were so desperate they drank the bong water:: > > ::shudders:: \*\* The boys had no access to a very fine metal strainer and a oven turned on very very low? Poor fellas. ☹ not that I know anything about any of that, a friend of a friend of a friend had a cousin who had a ferret that raced against another ferret that was owned by someone who did that. Yeah, that’s it. ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/28 "2002-12-30T02:12:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by flood \* > \*\*156? Your post count is only 153. 🙂 \*\* No fair, you made me splork! 😃 [sub]155 and closing fast[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Primaflora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Primaflora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Primaflora)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/29 "2002-12-30T02:28:15Z")
enterprising those ferrets aren’t they? I saw a ferret calendar in the bookshop yesterday. It was labelled ‘Ideal Xmas Present’ but I think they were stretching a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/30 "2002-12-30T03:15:51Z")
Interesting. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/31 "2002-12-30T03:39:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hastur \* > \*\*95? This looks like another case of a man adding some numbers to make himself look better. \*\* Yeah. :rolleyes: I mean, most people always admit they have low IQ’s. I see it all the time. Why marge- You know I am borderline retarted. Obviously if I was going to inflate it I would say I was 140+, like most of the other people on this board. 😉 You can say anything on the internet, My IQ test isn’t Stanford-binet or anything, It was one of those free tests they give at libraries. (supposedly the same scale though) If I were borderline retarded, I am pretty sure I wouldn’t even be able to compose coherant posts on this message board, and I would have been called out on it before. I don’t like about my penis size either- 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Epimetheus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c4cdca/32.png) [@Epimetheus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Epimetheus)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/32 "2002-12-30T03:41:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Epimetheus \* > \*\*I don’t like about my penis size either- 😉 \*\* Err, supposed to be LIE… but I guess this fits as well. Is any man content? (don’t answer, I need my illusions) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/33 "2002-12-30T03:58:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Epimetheus \* > \*\*Yeah. :rolleyes: I mean, most people always admit they have low IQ’s. I see it all the time. \*\* [McBain]That’s the joke.[/McBain] He’s saying your actually IQ is so low that 95 **is** bragging. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Lao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dr.Lao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Lao)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/34 "2002-12-30T04:00:53Z")
Er, “…your **actual** IQ…” ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/35 "2002-12-30T04:02:05Z")
Well, last time I was tested, mine was 165. And I am not very smart…I mean, I am smart about things (I think), but I am not SMART. SHOW me a thing, I will usually get it. TELL me a thing, I will not necessarily GET it. If I READ something, I will either GET it or be able to figure it out. I just realized…_I_ am smart, but my EARS aren’t. Wow…an epiphany! And I am not exactly sure what this is all about, but I just thought I would SHARE. [sub]OW!!! Stop pelting me with rotted IQ tests! Please? [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/36 "2002-12-30T04:14:24Z")
See, **Scotti** , you just managed to bring this whole discussion full circle. You provided a good example of why homeschooling can be a good option. Different people have different learning styles. You are a visual learner. Some people do better hearing things. Good teachers teach things in ways that reach people with different learning styles. For example, if you were learning cell structure in biology class, you might read about it in the text _and_ the teacher would explain it _and_ draw a diagram on the board _and_ you might do a project where you’d cut the parts of the cell out of construction paper and glue it together properly. That last part may seem frivolous, but some people learn best by _doing_. Ideally, teachers can reach most of the different types of learners most of the time. But if the teachers do not do this and/or your kid is very oriented toward one particular learning style, then public school may not be the best option. But enough of this unproductive hijack. I’ve read about how a bong works, and seen it used, and had the process explained to me, but I learn best by doing. Would someone please pass it over? ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/37 "2002-12-30T04:16:25Z")
Oh fertheloveofPete, It’s not the size of the brain, that matters, it’s how you use it. 🙂 And in most situations, it is proven that most people stand there and drool, drinking bong water. Hey, don’t throw things at me… ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/38 "2002-12-30T04:23:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > \*\*See, **Scotti** , you just managed to bring this whole discussion full circle. You provided a good example of why homeschooling can be a good option. Different people have different learning styles. You are a visual learner. Some people do better hearing things. Good teachers teach things in ways that reach people with different learning styles. \*\* SEE!!! I TOLD you I was smart about THINGS…but not necessarily smart…because I STILL don’t have a CLUE what this is all about. Glad to be of help, though! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![KellyM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/57b2e6/32.png) [@KellyM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyM)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/39 "2002-12-30T04:36:36Z")
Geez, the first time I get called to the Pit, and y’all spend the thread discussing bong water and ferrets. Oy! ---
**Author:** ![flood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@flood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flood)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544/40 "2002-12-30T05:17:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KellyM \* > \*\*Geez, the first time I get called to the Pit, and y’all spend the thread discussing bong water and ferrets. Oy! \*\* Do not speak of what you do not know woman. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kellym-your-ignorance-astounds-me/145544.md?page=3)