Spanking May Lower Kids' IQs

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Sep 25, 2009 | 09:11 AM

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Thank God my parents spanked me. . . I can barely fathom what sort of perversion I'd be capable of if I were less stupid.

Sep 25, 2009 | 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by 8D_In_Trunk,Sep 25 2009, 10:11 AM

Thank God my parents spanked me. . . I can barely fathom what sort of perversion I'd be capable of if I were less stupid.

lawl.

Sep 25, 2009 | 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by thebig33tuna,Sep 25 2009, 09:06 AM

Because I quoted zachismisitok's assertion about what everyone does, I believed that there was no need to reiterate the object of the verb. If you found it unclear, then my mission was successful.

I intended "misunderstanding" to be singular, not plural. I was using it an abstract sense, not attempting to enumerate specific instances of misunderstanding.

Understand?

Sep 25, 2009 | 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by RebelS2k,Sep 25 2009, 09:09 AM

The word of the day is: callipygian.

Thanks, Magician!

My pleasure.

(You looked it up, I presume.)

Sep 25, 2009 | 10:20 AM

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grammar nazis ruining what could have been a good subject... figures

Sep 25, 2009 | 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by magician,Sep 25 2009, 12:20 PM

oh I understand perfectly.

Sep 25, 2009 | 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by zachismisitok,Sep 25 2009, 10:20 AM

grammar nazis ruining what could have been a good subject... figures

If not the grammar nazis, it would have been the folks proving that their mental penises were longer than everybody else's, seeing as this is a thread discussing IQ.

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Sep 25, 2009 | 10:31 AM

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Originally Posted by magician,Sep 25 2009, 09:58 AM

A college student complained to his English professor who had harshly graded his term paper because he had forgotten the "-ly" ending on several adverbs.

"I really doesn't make a difference," the student argued. "The meaning is clear whether the '-ly' is there or not."

The professor wasn't convinced. He motioned toward a callipygian coed who was walking past, and asked, "Does it make a difference whether you're staring at her sternly, as opposed to staring at her stern?"

I had to look that one up. I now have a new word that I will probably never use.

Sep 25, 2009 | 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by magician,Sep 25 2009, 07:19 AM

When my wife read me the headline a couple of days ago, my first question was whether the researchers got the cause-effect relationship in the proper order: maybe stupid kids get spanked more because they're stupid.