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To: Ilaine who wrote (18780)	3/9/1999 11:52:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Well, I don't know that smart had anything to do with it, but I wasn't a happy camper my senior year. And Southern California being awash in drugs didn't help. I saw more drugs swirling around me than most narcotics officers would see in a career. It was like some bad movie, only way more real and way more depressing. You couldn't pay me enough to live through it again.

To: Ilaine who wrote (18780)	3/10/1999 1:04:00 PM
From: DScottD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

<It's tough being smart.> I wouldn't trade it for the alternative, though. What's neat is to know I held my own with these brains from law school who clerked for Supreme Court justices and who are partners at prestigious law firms. I think I'm a lot happier though. Except for today with a 102 temperature and that all around yucky feeling.

To: Ilaine who wrote (18780)	3/10/1999 7:48:00 PM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

what good is it? Well, the truth is, it's not worth much by itself. I've met some real smart people that were arrogant dillweeds. I've met some mentally challenged people that were about as good as a person can get. But it's worth something, that's for sure. The two most annoying things for me are laughing at something that is really funny and then noticing that I'm the only one that's laughing, and listening to someone who is not smart insist that I don't understand what I am saying. That used to piss me off, now I just nod and move on. Pulp Fiction for example. I started laughing at that movie about 4 minutes into it, right when John and Samuel were discussing the foot massage while waiting for the correct moment to murder some enemies of their employer, and was laughing all the way through. I had to be careful, because I was one of the only ones in the theater that was laughing. I was laughing because it was such a sublime use of pulp, 60s surf music, macabre black humor, the 'human condition' and film editing. (I also had never seen a Tarantino film, so I was not "expecting" anything.) I think smart has more to do with what you do with it. At least that's how it is for me. I like the word "wise". Wise is something I wasn't when I was growing up. Wise was something I wasn't before about age 32. Fortunately, I used my smarts to learn a bit about being wise. I'm not saying I am wise, but I guarantee a lot wiser than I was 20 years ago. I think I'm wiser because I was smart enough to know that there were some things I didn't understand, and I was smart enough not to assume that I had to believe somebody else's reasoning about the stuff I didn't understand just because I didn't understand it. I think I was smart enough not to mistake intelligence for sanity, because I've met a few smart guys that were really, really crazy. Also, one thing that took me a while to learn was that there are some people that are much smarter than I am. And some that are much wiser than I am. I like to hang out with them, because they laugh at my jokes. And some of them make me laugh really hard. That's what I like the most. Laughing.