Let me guess: are your grandchildren all in the 7-14 age group?

Nope. I have sixteen of them ranging from age two to age 18. And, surprisingly, I still have the 18-year old fooled. He even presented me with the "Mentor Pin" at his Eagle court of honor because, as he announced to everyone, "My grandpa has taken me on many pack trips with the horses and mules, and has taught me how to live in the outdoors and a lot of outdoor skills that I never learned in Scouting."

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Pack light and cinch tight.

That one sounds wise beyond his years - like he's about 3 years ahead of the curve

I'm satisfied at the low end of "genius" range. Smart enough to acquire skills in which I have an interest and develop enough mastery to be "journeyman" grade, but not so smart that I'm handicapped to the point of "geekdom" by an astronomical IQ.

I used to be a voracious reader, sometimes going through four books a day, and picked up a lot of knowledge, practical, trivial and scholarly. I read only on occasion, now, and pretty much stick to physical things, trying to keep this beat-up old body in some kind of shape. I retired a couple of years ago and want to get some mileage in before giving up the ghost. I'm trying for another twenty.

The one big thing that I know is: the more I learn, the more I don't know. It's kind of a corollary to The Law of Diminishing Returns...

Ya just can't win!

That or duct tape.
If moves and it shouldn't. duct tape is the answer.
If if doesn't move and should, WD-40 is the answer

I wish I would have been smarter when I was younger. But knowing what I know about the world today........some times I wish I didn't know as much as I do.

A shirt for Mensa members......
Peace,
gordon

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better have that checked

Do you know what I got on my IQ test?................Saliva!
Peace,
gordon

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better have that checked

A man with a very high IQ had a blowout. He pulled over, jacked up his
car, took off the lug nuts and placed them in the hub cap. About that
time a big truck went zooming by, created a wind gust, and flipped the
hub cap. The lug nuts rolled down into the borrow pit drainage. Our
very intelligent man looked and looked, but could not find the lug nuts.
About that time he noticed that he had parked right in front of the
State mental hospital. One of the patients was standing inside the
fence watching. He called out to our driver and said why don't you
just take one nut off each of the other 3 wheels. That will get you back
to town and you can buy some new ones. Our driver said hey that's a
good idea. I thought you guys are supposed to be crazy. The patient
said we are, but we aren't stupid.

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In Omnia Paratus

At least we all were intelligent enough to join this forum!

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So many S&W's, so few funds!!

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know!

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Mike, AmVets Member, Navy Vet

What I don't know, could fill an encyclopedia.

As Joe Walsh says, "if you act like you know what you are doing, everybody thinks that you do."

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"The Dude abides"

You are in an enviable position there. For some reason my 17 year old son thinks I'm the stupidest man in the world. And it doesn't matter what I tell him.

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"He was kinda funny lookin'"

We need a way to measure W.Q. I think I would score much better there. The longer I live my IQ keeps getting less and less, but my W.Q. grows by leaps and bounds. I'm sure that one day though, both scores will be nil, but that's just life.

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"He was kinda funny lookin'"

I really don't wish I was smarter but my wife wants me to be. *s*

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Why duck?? It's a 9mm!

Give him 10 years, your IQ will double. Joe

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Wisdom chases me; I'm faster

Same with my 18 year old. I figure that once he gets out into the real world and starts making his own way my IQ will rise precipitously.

I was tested with a fairly high IQ, just south of genius. Considering the dumb things I've done through life, I don't put much credence on its importance to success.

I often wonder if I wouldn't be better off trying to "UN-LEARN" some things. I believe you can know too much !!! Sort of clean out my ram. I worked in the oilfields when I was a young man and I can still remember the names of all the leases I worked, plus how many joints of tubing and how many rods were in each well. That's been over thirty years ago. I need to let it go. Last week I had one of my children ask me if I ever started to do something and all of a sudden forgot what it was I was about to do. I said all the time. Well what do you do about it. I go back to what I was doing, if it was of any importance, you'll remember, then you'll go take care of it. I haven't had a flathead V-8 in over 40 years, but I know how to overhaul one. I know how to pour babbit bearings in a Buda engine and how to set the points on a Fairbanks Morris one lung engine. But one thing I know very well and I see this younger generation hasn't learned is " If it ain't broke, don't fix it" Oh well, I get by, I still shine my boots, wash my old truck, wear my old pistols, tell old stories and offer advice to anyone who will listen.

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and everything Kentucky !!

I wish I was as smart as I think I am..........

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OGCA Member.

Another advantage of being OLD ( as in over 70). I know longer care that people think I'm just plain stupid; I can blame it all on being old

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John

If I were smarter I couldn't talk to myself.

Someone said that we all rise to the level of our own incompetence.

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Carpriver.

I finally got to the level on the "smartness gauge", that I now know every stupid thing I ever did; I realized it was going to be stupid before I did it.

That it was surely going to bring blood and hurt,... it was going to cost me money,... it was going to alienate a friend,.. or it was going to wreck a possession I thought highly of.

I just never got smart enough to NOT do it.

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wanna do right-- not right now

Sounds like wisdom right there. A person doesn't necessarily need to be "school smart" to be wise. I once worked construction with an old "African-American" man. He had a 3rd grade school education, son of sharecroppers. I don't reckon I have met an individual with more wisdom in my whole life. Everything in this world was crystal clear and simple to this man, and the proper course of action commenced immediately. Sometime he would tire of my "jitterbug" antics and just say "Boy, you need to get your mind right!" Took another 20 years for me to get it. Joe

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Wisdom chases me; I'm faster