[JoeProBono]

[goseminoles]

I’ve thought about applying for s’s and giggles but methinks its a bunch of liberals.

[mountn man]

Mensa member Alexis Wise, 19, a sophomore at Yale University, told USA Today the benefits of being a Mensan include learning from brilliant people in non-academic settings.

"I have the coolest group of friends, and that's only grown over the years," she said. "I've learned so much."

Nice mutual admiration society. (and Obama voter)

[svcw]

Well, interesting....... My husband is a member of Mensa, these people are so boring! Yes, when my husband is around them he gets boring...........away from them he is a blast!

[SmithL]

I may no longer be young, but I am still pre-Mensa.

[mountn man]

In all honesty, I find FReepers to be some of the brightest and most interesting people. People who are truely interested in knowing about things, and not hung up on there own opinions of themselves.

I can't think of a better group of people to hang around and learn from.

[cripplecreek]

DUmmie FUnnies from the way back machine. Poor MENSA DUmmies are forced to live among us “normies”.

http://dummiefunnies.blogspot.com/2006/07/new-du-group-former-gifted-children.html

[LadyDoc]

I stopped my membership after I got tired of articles and letters explaining why they hated God and then would give non intellectual reasons.

They are not really smart, just proud of having high IQ’s, which is not the same thing.

[aruanan]

Part of the effort is Saturday's National Mensa Testing Day, in which hopefuls will take the group's own admissions test or one of 200 other tests, such as the Stanford-Binet, the Miller Analogies Test, the GMAT or the GRE.

My GRE scores were sufficient to get me a membership, but after I got the letter welcoming me and giving me membership options, I didn't bother. I really didn't want to pay a yearly fee or a big one-time life fee to be a member.

[Former War Criminal]

I was all set to join at 18, but the Marine recruiter made me a better offer.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Think we could get a group rate?

[3niner]

When I was young, I joined Mensa, thinking it might be a good way to meet smart women. I was right, unfortunately, they were mostly middle aged housewives. I didn’t renew my membership.

[pappyone]

I’ll never be as smart as those guys, so I’ll just make fun of them:

Beede Beede

[ThomasThomas]

I have wondered if Rio Linda has a chapter? I could Google it, but I don’t really want to know. I just find thought entertaining.

[Larry Lucido]

We’re more fun.

http://home.comcast.net/~czell/densa.htm

[Rocky]

Let’s all pat each other on the back and tell each other how smart we are. Meanwhile, I will secretly think that everyone else in the room is not quite as smart as I am. Of course, I will despise the ones who demonstrate that they are smarter than I am.

And then I can go back out in the world and smugly think about how dumb everyone else is. And look forward with mixed emotions to the next Mensa meeting, where I will feel exalted by being in the company of geniuses, and deflated when someone shows me up.

Surely, there must be things more important than a high IQ.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

I’ve been a Mensan for 25 years. I met my fellow-Mensan husband at a Mensa party. While Mensa does have a higher-than-societal average of underachievers, big freakin’ libs, and rather astoundingly obese people, mostly it has a bunch of people who think for themselves, do it rather well, and are driven to seek the company of same.

For those who joined and never went to a meeting, or who joined and went to one meeting, I will mention that local groups go through fluctuations, and sometimes for what is usually a limited period of time the group dynamic can become toxic. I joined right after grad school and went to one meeting — where I was either ignored or patted on the head. Annoyed, I didn’t go back for a few years, but when I did, I discovered that the irritating members I met at that party had all gone on to other activities, and the remaining members were mostly very nice and interesting people. Since then I’ve been a very active member, and made lots of friends. Mensa is largely what *you* make of it.

[CodeToad]

Mensa members might score high on a bogus IQ test, but they have been known to be the dumbest people ever. Typical nerds; they think they are smart but their liberal and childish thoughts on how the world works is simply stupefying.