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Something many of us knew already: Have a difficult problem to solve? Try vodka.[^]
Quote: Intoxicated individuals solved more test items, in less time, and were more likely to perceive their solutions as the result of a sudden insight. Results are interpreted from an attentional control perspective.
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TTFN - Kent
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“That alcohol provides a benefit to creative processes has long been assumed by popular culture"
An incorrect one. All it does is take away the worry that you might get it wrong.
A lot of the time, that will result in quicker answers, but, unfortunately, it will also result in more incorrect answers.
Like they say in the RN: "A good officer is one who makes decisions quickly. If his decisions turn out to be the correct ones, so much the better".
Hence the RN providing free rum to sailors.
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I thought the RN gave up on the whole, "run, sodomy, and the lash" bit? Or at least the rum.
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It's still on board ship, but the navvies have to pay for it themselves (ociffers get drunk for free).
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That would tend to explain why, 40 years ago, I got the highest score in the state of California on a test I was too stoned to remember taking. I did get a nice letter from my legislative representative to congratulate me, and a few offers from Congressmen to appoint me to any of our three military academies, but I turned them down. We had this little disagreement with an utterly insignificant place called Vietnam going on at the time, and I wasn't interested in being trapped in a military commission for 6 years in exchange for a free degree. It all worked out for the best; we're not fighting over there any more, and I'm still alive. I got a far better deal than many of the friends I'll never again see...
Will Rogers never met me.
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I commend you for your stand (and congratulate you on the test marks).
I just wish that your country (and many others) would have learned from that insignificant place and time.
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A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, "This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you." The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, son?" The boy takes the quarters and leaves. "What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!"
Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store. "Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?" The boy licked his cone and replied, "Because the day I take the dollar, the game is over!"
/ravi
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I wish I was this bright when I was a kid. 
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Nice, Ravi! That helps to explain why so many young, ignorant immigrants manage to thrive here; they're smart enough not to end the game! 
Good for them!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Liberia's education minister says she finds it hard to believe that not a single candidate passed this year's university admission exam.
25,000 sit the exam, no-one passes. On a serious note, either the University is setting the bar to high or the students are not being given the teaching they need. Either way it is disgraceful.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: setting the bar to high
Like in spelling, for example?
Sorry, Mate, but you can't attend Liberian universities.
Try not to be too heartbroken.
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Sire,
Please take your pedantry and go 'get friendly' with a goose.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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leave the goose alone, he has never recovered from the midget in topgun
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Where in Hell am I supposed to get a goose?
Can't I borrow one of Griff's sheep, instead?
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I wouldn't he doesn't wash his hands
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You leave moi sheeps alone!
Get Orf Moi Land!
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That has to be the worst attempt at Welsh accent I've ever heard.
For shame!
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It's a damn good thing you haven't heard me speaking Welsh - my accent is even worse!
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Anyone who hasn't heard anyone speaking Welsh should be considered lucky -- it's almost as awful as Dutch.
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Maybe it's just your interpretation of his word choice. I often set the burner on my stove to high (though on occasion I also set it too high). We live in a digital world now, so he may very well have set the bar to high by setting the bar to high. 
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*sigh*
How many opportunities to use the word "two" did you miss?
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two?
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What, are you homophonic?
Your name doesn't look Russian.
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