Smart vs. intelligent.

[e_juliana]

There's a discussion going on on one of my boards that makes me want to bawl my eyes out, so instead of posting there and being all incoherent and shit, I'm trying to corral my thoughts here:

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Never mind. I don't have the emotional or intellectual energy right now, and anything I type sounds like a pathetic whine for strokes. Screw that. Suffice to say that I know damn well I'm not as smart as my parents thought I was, and it's something I get to learn to live with, much like this right knee.


Anyway. The other point of this post was to clarify the question that I added to the meme I just posted:

21. The children's game where everyone sits in a circle, one child goes around patting everyone's head saying, "duck, duck...", and then another child gets up and chases the first child, and the first child has to get to the vacated spot before the chaser catches them?

duck, duck, GOOSE

You see, here in Minnesota, children apparently play a game called "duck duck grAy duck". So instead of a simple "duck, duck, duck, duck, duck, GOOSE" (run like hell), they play "[color] duck, [color] duck, [color] duck, [color] duck, [color] duck, GRAY DUCK" (run like hell). This is a major bone of contention in every freshman dorm in Minnesota come the month of September. It's very strange, and apparently limited to MN-only. Since I'm an instigator, I like teasing my gray duck-playing friends every once in a while.

Comments

[serenada.livejournal.com]

I know damn well I'm not as smart as my parents thought I was, and it's something I get to learn to live with

You know, I don't think I ever was as smart as they thought I should be, and now I'm not as smart as they probably think I am.

This sounds way unfair to my parents, but I was stunned to find out that they'd love me anyway. It's certainly not something they'd let me believe while I was still in school.

Brains are weird. Parents are weird.

This is a major bone of contention in every freshman dorm in Minnesota come the month of September.

You play that in university?

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

Brains are weird. Parents are weird.

Word.

You play that in university?

As one of those horrific "icebreaker" things during orientation, yes. I think they do it just to rile the kids up.

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

I'm having issues with the discussion too. I'm only halfway through. And I'm very irritated, but I don't have any good place/person/idea for that irritation. If that makes any sense. Because on the one hand, yes. But on the other hand, hell no!

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

Exactly!!

[makaidiver.livejournal.com]

Where's said discussion taking place? Bitca or Natter or ? (signed, not on-line alot in the last couple of days).

[e-juliana.livejournal.com]

Old Natter, about 350 posts from the end.

We miss you!

[debg.livejournal.com]

I'm not as brilliant, creative and amazing as my father thought I was.

On the other hand? I am way more of all those things than my mother thought I was.

It's always a crapshoot, my darling, and you honestly can't please everyone, and half the time, you end up believing you can't please anyone.

So try pleasing you.