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Title: Alcohol makes you cleverer!
Post by: Furball on September 18, 2003, 05:22:28 AM
Just stumbled across this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1058526.stm

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Men who drank less than 540 millilitres of sake or wine a day had an IQ 3.3 points higher than men who did not drink at all


:D
Title: Alcohol makes you cleverer!
Post by: beet1e on September 18, 2003, 05:27:10 AM
...and Lazs doesn't drink.  ;)
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Post by: ra on September 18, 2003, 06:30:25 AM
whot if u drnk way mor than 540 ml    ?
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Post by: straffo on September 18, 2003, 06:50:53 AM
Did you notice that 540 millilitres is more than half a litter ?

0.9502659 pint
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Post by: Nilsen on September 18, 2003, 07:49:23 AM
beeing clever is overrated....beeing drunk is not...

*burp*
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Post by: lazs2 on September 18, 2003, 08:03:15 AM
beetle... i guess it all depends on what you started out with and how you use what you got.   Still... I allways thought that you were 3 points smarter than the other idiot in your village.   Now we know why.   that's why you are allways the keynote speaker at the village idiot conventions.
lazs
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Post by: Drunky on September 18, 2003, 09:14:19 AM
Perhaps drinking doesn't make you smarter...

Perhaps it's smart people drink.



If drinking made you smarter I'd be a freaking big-headed-neck-too-small-to-hold-up-my-big-head-smart-person-type.  Yeah.
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Post by: BEVO on September 18, 2003, 09:42:52 AM
it's the "Slowest Buffalo" theory:
A herd fo buffalo is only as fast as it's slowest buffalo.
the wolfs hunt them from behind, killing the one in the back..... the slowest. the slowest one is dead, thus making the herd faster.
the same is true with brain cells........ alcohol kills off the weakest brain cells, making you more clever!
:)
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Post by: ra on September 18, 2003, 09:45:51 AM
Uhhh, buffaloes don't drink, Einstein.
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Post by: Frogm4n on September 18, 2003, 09:48:11 AM
another reason not to trust people that dont drink at all.
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Post by: beet1e on September 18, 2003, 11:55:13 AM
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Originally posted by lazs2
beetle... i guess it all depends on what you started out with and how you use what you got.   Still... I allways thought that you were 3 points smarter than the other idiot in your village.   Now we know why.   that's why you are allways the keynote speaker at the village idiot conventions.
lazs
Think positive. I don't believe this story. Focus on the fact that you've probably got 3 times as many live brain cells by being a tee-totaller. Still, 3 times nothing is still nothing - muhahahaha  :lol

Lazs!  :)  Hey, only 27 more days to go. We'd better start practising to be nice to eachother.
Title: Alcohol makes you cleverer!
Post by: lazs2 on September 18, 2003, 02:37:22 PM
before drugs and alchohol.... I was told that we only use 10% of our brain and that alchohol destroys brain cells...  I figured I could drink and drug till I killed 90% of my brain off.

What they didn't tell ya was that the stuff kills the brain cells ya use and leaves the useless ones intact.

and who says I'm gonna be nice to you at the con?
lazs
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Post by: beet1e on September 18, 2003, 02:46:38 PM
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Originally posted by lazs2
before drugs and alchohol.... I was told that we only use 10% of our brain and that alchohol destroys brain cells...  I figured I could drink and drug till I killed 90% of my brain off.

What they didn't tell ya was that the stuff kills the brain cells ya use and leaves the useless ones intact.

and who says I'm gonna be nice to you at the con?
lazs
waaah-hah-hah-hah! Bah, come on, Lazs! Don't take life (aka this BBS - LOL) so seriously!  We'll get along fine. Yeah, we've had a few dingdongs along the way, but a turning point was when I found you were a cat lover - well, a cat owner!
Title: Re: Alcohol makes you cleverer!
Post by: Eagler on September 18, 2003, 03:08:05 PM
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Originally posted by Furball
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yep, every drunk at every party I ever ran across thought so ...
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Post by: bigUC on September 18, 2003, 03:50:30 PM
Bottles are difficult to operate :)
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Post by: JB73 on September 18, 2003, 05:55:57 PM
im triien for moer smarts rite noaw

give me moer smarts puhleeze
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Post by: Holden McGroin on September 18, 2003, 11:35:14 PM
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Originally posted by ra
Uhhh, buffaloes don't drink, Einstein.


They must get really thirsty....
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Post by: capt. apathy on September 19, 2003, 12:14:12 AM
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Perhaps drinking doesn't make you smarter...

Perhaps it's smart people drink.



I can't remember who said it (maybe I'm not drinking enough lately?), but htis was always one of my favorites-

"A wise man often requires alcohol to tollorate the company of fools"
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Post by: Drunky on September 19, 2003, 09:40:19 AM
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Originally posted by capt. apathy
I can't remember who said it (maybe I'm not drinking enough lately?), but htis was always one of my favorites-

"A wise man often requires alcohol to tollorate the company of fools"



Sound like the acidic wit of Mark Twain.  But I'm probably wrong.
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Post by: lazs2 on September 19, 2003, 09:46:10 AM
beer makes yu temporarily deaf.  

beetle... yes... I have got to learn to quit taking everything so seriously.
lazs
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Post by: Curval on September 19, 2003, 09:52:06 AM
WKRP in Cincinati had a great episode where they did a reflex test on drunk people.  A classic.  The drugged out DJ kept getting faster the drunker he got.  Drove the poor cop spare.
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Post by: capt. apathy on September 19, 2003, 12:17:49 PM
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Sound like the acidic wit of Mark Twain. But I'm probably wrong.


I was leaning tward it being Churchil but I wasn't sure.

It could be twain though, he's responsable for many of my favorite quotes