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I knew a stockbroker who had a brain boost. He decided not to put his clients into anything. 
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I knew a poet who had a brain boost. He decided it wasn't worth the effort after all. 
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Test your I.Q. The statement below is best described as...(check one) (a) Irony_______________________[ ] (b) The horns of a dilemma________ [ ] (c) A paradox____________________[ ] (d) A self-fulfilling prophesy________[ ] Only after Plutarch got a brain boost did he come to realize that
the only people who get brain boosts are naif simpletons. Good. Now take a brain pill and try again... (a) It's like, you know, cool_______ [ ] (b) Colors...yeah that's it, colors__ [ ] (c) Mmm...let's see...Paris Hilton? __[ ] (d) Mark box if you can read this__ [ ] Now compare your answers and thank you for taking this test. 
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Only after Plutarch got a brain boost did he come to realize that the only people who get brain boosts are naif simpletons.If Plutarch had a brain boost, he would probably take ASp's advice. [Option (a)] BTW Musick beat you to the punch this time, themilum. Alas, he was right. I had to trash my own limerick. Some limericks deserve a laff. Others just a gaff. People who need a brain boost are seldom smart enough to know it, themilum.
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re Pamela Anderson's witsFlattering to deceive: the femmes fatalesLondon Times, December 21, 2004 Extract: "Let us make things simpler and say that if you are a woman of fair-to-middling looks and age who wants to entrance a man (or men), this is how you do it. The first step is that you sound — no, not sound, you are — very, very interested in everything he says (this is easy if he is the Home Secretary, but as your grandmother will have told you, everyone, no matter how boring they might at first appear, is interesting if you ask them the right questions). And the second step is that, although modestly — indeed conservatively — dressed, you contrive to look as though your clothes might all fall off with a strong gust of wind. It is a mistake to underestimate the power of wholesome, straightforward sex, especially where brilliant, oldish, hard-working and not very good-looking men are concerned. So there you are. The instant seductress’s guide. No Botox, no plastic surgery, no Rules. And just the one condition: you have to be prepared to leave a bleeding trail of devastation behind you." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1410604,00.htmlIf this advice is to be believed, the best way for a lady to impress a man with her brain is to get him thinking below his belt. A woman doesn't need to boost her intelligence if she knows how to boost a man's.
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Then Plutarch said... "People who need a brain boost are seldom smart enough to know it."[sigh] Darnit, Plutarch, 'fess up; you didn't take the test. If you did you wouldn't commit redundantcy. (a) Irony_______________________[ ] (b) The horns of a dilemma________ [ ] (c) A paradox____________________[ ] (d) A self-fulfilling prophesy________[ ] The answer is (d).
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The answer is (d) - A self-fulfilling prophesy
A "self-fulfilling prophecy"?
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"People who need a brain boost are seldom smart enough to know it."So...people who don't need a brain boost are smart enought to know they don't need a brain boost. Ergo - A self-fulfilling prophecy. It's just a joke, Plutarch.
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It's just a joke, Plutarch. It's just a boost, themilum.
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I would say touche Pluto, but I don't know how to add an accent.
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