BigFlax29 (4:36:31 PM): welcome to the most pretentious site in the universe: http://www.gigasociety.org/gigaweb.htm
Fruhlingsglaube (4:37:37 PM): Um... I like how the high IQ society's web page totally sucks
BigFlax29 (4:37:50 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (4:38:05 PM): "If you're so smart, how come you don't know ugly when you see it?"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:38:09 PM): "BOO-YAH"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:38:28 PM): so... their logo is a nine?
BigFlax29 (4:38:39 PM): apparently
BigFlax29 (4:38:44 PM): better look closely to find it...
Fruhlingsglaube (4:39:00 PM): *squints*
Fruhlingsglaube (4:39:01 PM): *cries*
BigFlax29 (4:39:20 PM): "Although the emblem of the Giga Society is not reprinted on this page, you may just be able to see it if you look very hard."
BigFlax29 (4:39:24 PM): are you fucking kidding me?
Fruhlingsglaube (4:39:25 PM): *studies Cliffs Notes to "Encryptogrammography and You"*
Fruhlingsglaube (4:39:38 PM): keep reading to the bottom
BigFlax29 (4:39:52 PM): I gave up, the print is too small
Fruhlingsglaube (4:40:07 PM): no wonder they need a society made up only of their own kind... they're so repulsive
BigFlax29 (4:40:14 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (4:40:20 PM): Gee, how much clearer can I put it wi thout actually printing the thing itself? How many lives do es a cat have? How many con-
tinents the Earth? What year o f the century was TGS founded? What day of the year was the founder born? Lets's count: one, two, three, four, five,... ., seven, eight,....
Fruhlingsglaube (4:40:35 PM): um... how many continents??
BigFlax29 (4:40:47 PM): that would be different, yes.
BigFlax29 (4:41:04 PM): unless he thinks he's not counting antarctica
Fruhlingsglaube (4:41:47 PM): *cries*
Fruhlingsglaube (4:41:49 PM): http://www.gigasociety.org/evangelos/evangelos.htm
Fruhlingsglaube (4:41:54 PM): look at this ass
Fruhlingsglaube (4:42:02 PM): I will never call you an ass again, because look at this ass
BigFlax29 (4:42:13 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (4:42:37 PM): Wait, wait, click on "Durgin"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:42:38 PM): oh my god
Fruhlingsglaube (4:42:41 PM): worst personal ad ever
BigFlax29 (4:42:46 PM): heh
BigFlax29 (4:42:54 PM): the best part about durgin
BigFlax29 (4:42:57 PM): in his quotes section
BigFlax29 (4:43:06 PM): he has a bunch attributed to himself
Fruhlingsglaube (4:43:06 PM): Favorite Psychologist: Carl Gustav Jung
Fruhlingsglaube (4:43:08 PM): *smacks*
Fruhlingsglaube (4:43:18 PM): oh, I didn't even get that far!
Fruhlingsglaube (4:43:27 PM): Y'know, as the first member... probably means he founded this society
Fruhlingsglaube (4:43:33 PM): which would make a LOOOOOT of sense
BigFlax29 (4:43:39 PM): actually, it said that the dutch guy did
BigFlax29 (4:43:46 PM): durgin was the first new member, I guess
Fruhlingsglaube (4:44:30 PM): mm
Fruhlingsglaube (4:44:32 PM): well...
Fruhlingsglaube (4:44:56 PM): no accounting for taste, is there?
Fruhlingsglaube (4:45:01 PM): "Personal ignorance can not be eliminated by anyone except through the investment of time and effort by the one who is ignorant."
Fruhlingsglaube (4:45:03 PM): Oh really?
BigFlax29 (4:45:45 PM): I'd imagine that's mostly true, but let's say it a little more arrogantly
Fruhlingsglaube (4:46:36 PM): "You have to work to get as smart as Scott B. Durgin, bee-yotch!"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:46:46 PM): how's that?
BigFlax29 (4:46:54 PM): haha
BigFlax29 (4:46:59 PM): -- scott b. durgin
Fruhlingsglaube (4:47:04 PM): HEE
Fruhlingsglaube (4:47:06 PM): most interesting numbers: 1, 37, 322, 2137
Fruhlingsglaube (4:47:10 PM): kiss my ass
BigFlax29 (4:47:13 PM): haha
Fruhlingsglaube (4:47:19 PM): Favorite Composers: Mozart, Vivaldi
modern: Deuter, Enya
Fruhlingsglaube (4:47:21 PM): Enya???
BigFlax29 (4:47:39 PM): the dutch guy likes zeppelin, which means he's either somehow cool or I should hate myself
Fruhlingsglaube (4:47:42 PM): favorite relationship: phi
Fruhlingsglaube (4:48:08 PM): ...see, if he had ever met a girl, that entry might be different
BigFlax29 (4:48:13 PM): yeah, I like how he includes the double meaning "favorite dates" and "favorite relationships" and answers them in the nerd way
BigFlax29 (4:48:38 PM): I bet even the other five make fun of him when he goes to the bathroom
Fruhlingsglaube (4:48:44 PM): hee
Fruhlingsglaube (4:49:04 PM): Name: Paulus Arnoldus Johannes Wilhelmina Cooijmans
Birth: 6 April 1965, 20:30 hours, Lieshout, Netherlands
Sex: M
Marital status: Single
Fruhlingsglaube (4:49:17 PM): Single, eh? Oh, Paulus, how can that be?? HOW CAN THAT BE???
BigFlax29 (4:49:33 PM): hee
BigFlax29 (4:49:45 PM): and he's totally the coolest one of them
BigFlax29 (4:49:52 PM): at least if it weren't for the fact that he founded the goddamn thing
Fruhlingsglaube (4:49:59 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (4:50:01 PM): Publications: (partly self-published):
Fruhlingsglaube (4:50:04 PM): mm-HMMMMMM
Fruhlingsglaube (4:50:15 PM): "99% is a part!"
BigFlax29 (4:50:15 PM): though actually, one of them, I forget which already, is married with three kids
Fruhlingsglaube (4:50:25 PM): three freakish kids
BigFlax29 (4:50:27 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (4:51:57 PM): As a true child of the late 20th century, his interests are very modern: computers, telomere research, science fiction, role-playing games. He hopes to be among the first to get a cyber interface implanted if they become available one day. He also thinks that our world is quite probably only a big VR game.
Fruhlingsglaube (4:52:00 PM): Oh, wow, he's so edgy
BigFlax29 (4:52:11 PM): yeah, I found that so retarded
Fruhlingsglaube (4:53:12 PM): Main goal of The Giga Society is to honour the efforts of the very highest scorers, who are of great importance to the development of ultra-heigh-ceiling tests for mental abilities.
Fruhlingsglaube (4:53:18 PM): A secondary goal is to make members of other IQ societies realize they're not all that, although they may think they are.
Fruhlingsglaube (4:53:21 PM): Holy fuck
BigFlax29 (4:53:42 PM): WHOA
BigFlax29 (4:53:47 PM): did they actually just say that?
BigFlax29 (4:53:54 PM): "oh yeah, we went there, nerds"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:54:04 PM): uh huh
Fruhlingsglaube (4:54:17 PM): they're so nerdy and antisocial that they're being shunned by OTHER antisocial nerds
BigFlax29 (4:55:13 PM): the mega society says "beat it, losers"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:55:42 PM): this is like a club where you're all sitting up in your treehouse with a thermos of Tang
BigFlax29 (4:55:53 PM): heh
BigFlax29 (4:56:02 PM): except it's only you and your one gomer friend
Fruhlingsglaube (4:56:06 PM): "Who wants gingersnaps?"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:56:11 PM): "Thanks, Mom"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:56:17 PM): "Thanks, Mrs. Cooijmans"
BigFlax29 (4:56:21 PM): hahaha
Fruhlingsglaube (4:56:45 PM): "Dude, Paulus, your mom's so hot"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:56:50 PM): "Shut up, Durgin!"
BigFlax29 (4:56:52 PM): hahaha
BigFlax29 (4:57:06 PM): oh, awesome
BigFlax29 (4:57:20 PM): "aw, dude, wolf's picking his nose again"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:57:22 PM): LOLOL
BigFlax29 (4:57:46 PM): "shut up, mifflin, I was just scratching!"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:57:49 PM): This website makes me not want to be smart
BigFlax29 (4:57:52 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (4:58:02 PM): "I was scratching my brain. My big, big brain"
BigFlax29 (4:58:12 PM): heh
BigFlax29 (4:58:18 PM): "it's so big it comes out my nose"
Fruhlingsglaube (4:58:38 PM): LOL
Fruhlingsglaube (4:58:58 PM): "No human skull can contain THIS brain, bitch. That's why I want an android interface someday!"
BigFlax29 (5:01:39 PM): "hey durgin, how's your wife"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:02:02 PM): "No, really, I mean, how is your wife? I haven't been able to find a woman who'll let me touch her yet."
BigFlax29 (5:02:10 PM): heh
BigFlax29 (5:02:32 PM): "dude, you've had sex at least three times... what's that like?"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:02:33 PM): look at the ugly-ass logo on the links page
Fruhlingsglaube (5:02:41 PM): if they're so smart, how come they haven't heard of anti-aliasing?
BigFlax29 (5:02:50 PM): ha!
BigFlax29 (5:02:55 PM): yeah, that's hideous
Fruhlingsglaube (5:03:03 PM): *swish*
BigFlax29 (5:03:09 PM): Web masters: copy + paste this HTML code to add a link to us:
BigFlax29 (5:03:14 PM): now why would anyone want to do that?
Fruhlingsglaube (5:03:30 PM): to poke fun is my prime guess
BigFlax29 (5:03:32 PM): "here's a link to a group that disdains 5 billion, 999 thousand, 994 people"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:03:35 PM): LOL
Fruhlingsglaube (5:03:39 PM): they don't WANT any new members
Fruhlingsglaube (5:03:48 PM): there isn't enough cookies and juice to go around
BigFlax29 (5:04:13 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (5:04:30 PM): http://paulcooijmans.lunarpages.com/
Fruhlingsglaube (5:04:47 PM): what in the fuck, he wasn't satisfied with founding ONE smarty-smarty-smart-smart society?
BigFlax29 (5:04:56 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (5:05:07 PM): "The Glia Society is an international organization for friendly contact between intelligent individuals."
Fruhlingsglaube (5:05:35 PM): This thinly disguised code for 'I want to meet girls' is even easier to break than the disguising of "9"
BigFlax29 (5:05:59 PM): haha
BigFlax29 (5:06:08 PM): you only need a 1530 SAT or 33 ACT to join this one
Fruhlingsglaube (5:06:11 PM): I can't look at that sentence without hearing the Comic Book Guy reading it aloud in my mind
Fruhlingsglaube (5:06:20 PM): oh, geez, I've got a 33 ACT
Fruhlingsglaube (5:06:24 PM): I mean... whatever
BigFlax29 (5:06:30 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (5:06:41 PM): "We'll lower our standards if it means we can admit some girls. GIRLS! GIRLS!" *froth*

Fruhlingsglaube (5:12:08 PM): rollover the links on the giga page
Fruhlingsglaube (5:12:22 PM): look at how many of those societies are on personal webpages
Fruhlingsglaube (5:12:23 PM): how sad
BigFlax29 (5:12:33 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (5:12:39 PM): "I'M going to make up my OWN club"
BigFlax29 (5:12:47 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (5:12:52 PM): "I'm going to hold a barbecue, and only invite who *I* want!"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:12:55 PM): "Can I come?"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:12:57 PM): "Sure."
Fruhlingsglaube (5:12:58 PM): ...
Fruhlingsglaube (5:13:02 PM): "D'OH!"
BigFlax29 (5:13:11 PM): Paul Cooijmans founded the Giga Society as the most exclusive high IQ society ever. In fact, until 1999 he was the only member.
BigFlax29 (5:13:16 PM): how quaint
BigFlax29 (5:13:21 PM): "how's your club going, paul?"
BigFlax29 (5:13:25 PM): "fine, mom, go away!"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:13:26 PM): "In FACT"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:13:38 PM): "Do you want me to bring up some Fluffernut, sweetheart?"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:13:44 PM): "...thanks, Mom."
BigFlax29 (5:13:46 PM): "maybe your sister can join your little club"
BigFlax29 (5:13:52 PM): "no, mom, she's a normal"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:13:56 PM): "Girls are GROSS"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:14:22 PM): *mom leaves, Paulus sneaks a picture of Marilyn Vos Savant out from under his mattress*
Fruhlingsglaube (5:14:28 PM): "Soon, Marilyn, SOON..."
BigFlax29 (5:14:30 PM): haha
BigFlax29 (5:14:35 PM): yeah, why isn't she in this club?
BigFlax29 (5:14:40 PM): isn't her IQ supposed to be 212?
Fruhlingsglaube (5:14:48 PM): because she's too incredibly fucking cool for that club
BigFlax29 (5:14:54 PM): heh
BigFlax29 (5:14:56 PM): well, yeah
Fruhlingsglaube (5:15:06 PM): ...in fact, being too cool for that club would only require you to be marginally cool
BigFlax29 (5:15:10 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (5:15:16 PM): like, if I own a Playstation, I'm WAY too cool for them
BigFlax29 (5:15:28 PM): "you are the least cool person I have ever met, by far.... and yet, you are way too cool for the giga society"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:15:59 PM): "Now, go away, before I taunt you a second time-ah"
BigFlax29 (5:16:00 PM): that'll be a new insult.. "you're giga-level"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:16:05 PM): lol
BigFlax29 (5:16:12 PM): "thanks!"
BigFlax29 (5:16:23 PM): "but only in terms of coolness."
BigFlax29 (5:16:25 PM): "oh."
BigFlax29 (5:16:52 PM): There is some debate whether an IQ that high can be measured reliably enough. But the fact is, although many of the smartest people in the world tried, only those few listed here achieved the goal of joining the Giga Society.
BigFlax29 (5:16:55 PM): that's cute
BigFlax29 (5:16:59 PM): that others actually tried
Fruhlingsglaube (5:17:00 PM): what?
Fruhlingsglaube (5:17:02 PM): what?
Fruhlingsglaube (5:17:05 PM): OH GOD
BigFlax29 (5:17:07 PM): and they had to be like "oh, I'm sorry."
Fruhlingsglaube (5:17:14 PM): then they giggled like women
BigFlax29 (5:17:17 PM): hahaha
BigFlax29 (5:17:29 PM): yeah, they probably made fun of the tests later on like a room full of drunken TAs
Fruhlingsglaube (5:17:48 PM): "I can't believe she thought the answer was FORTY-THREE"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:18:07 PM): "One too many for the meaning of life... AND this club!"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:18:11 PM): *high fives all around*
BigFlax29 (5:18:22 PM): "dude, dude, check it out.... he wrote 113112131, not 113112132"
BigFlax29 (5:18:25 PM): "what a retard"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:18:27 PM): BALEETED!
BigFlax29 (5:19:39 PM): http://members.brabant.chello.nl/~p.cooijmans/gliaweb/grail/
BigFlax29 (5:19:56 PM): oh, it's cooijmans again
BigFlax29 (5:20:00 PM): this guy is obsessed
BigFlax29 (5:20:09 PM): "what if I'm not the smartest person to ever live..."
Fruhlingsglaube (5:20:09 PM): "I'm SO TURNED ON by MY OWN BRAIN"
BigFlax29 (5:20:23 PM): Society's journal,G, will appear after your enrollment and whenever there is enough copy. It'll be sent to member only.
Fruhlingsglaube (5:20:26 PM): "It's just you and me, lock of hair..."
BigFlax29 (5:20:26 PM): sweet lord
Fruhlingsglaube (5:21:09 PM): we've just MST-ied this society, you realize...
BigFlax29 (5:21:17 PM): heh
BigFlax29 (5:21:21 PM): http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/history.html
BigFlax29 (5:22:14 PM): I like that there are parodies
Fruhlingsglaube (5:22:22 PM): For example, I would expect that after reading this history, a reasonably intelligent person should be able to answer such questions as: "Why were the various high IQ societies formed?" and "What have been the major sources of conflict in the formation of these societies?"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:22:36 PM): *Alma thinks hard, then clicks her mechanical pencil a few times*
Fruhlingsglaube (5:22:40 PM): 1) Nerds.
Fruhlingsglaube (5:22:44 PM): 2) See 1).
BigFlax29 (5:23:12 PM): heh
BigFlax29 (5:23:14 PM): The Exa Society is a name suggested by Richard May in the August 1983 issue of Vidya, the journal of the Triple Nine Society, as a society that would accept only one entity per 10-to-the-15th power, meant as a parody of the "Mega" Society's name.6 In the same article, Richard May suggested the "Plus Sigma Society," meant as a parody of the Four Sigma Society, whose admission level being flexible, would be defined as always one sigma or standard deviation higher than the next highest high-IQ society's admission standard.
Fruhlingsglaube (5:23:44 PM): LOL
Fruhlingsglaube (5:23:46 PM): LOLOLOL
Fruhlingsglaube (5:23:59 PM): Look at the first entry under "Defunct Societies"
BigFlax29 (5:24:11 PM): The Aleph-(3) Society is a name suggested by Richard May in the October 1986 issue of Vidya for the world's first high-IQ society with a transfinite admissions requirement. May wrote that "the entity commonly referred to as 'god' is only at the aleph-(1) level, according to the scale of the precise quantification of divinity."
Fruhlingsglaube (5:24:15 PM): So not useful. So not useful.
Fruhlingsglaube (5:24:22 PM): hahahah
Fruhlingsglaube (5:25:14 PM): High IQ Club with unknown name (unknown admissions requirement)

Christopher Harding writes that he has come across evidence from two different sources that a high IQ club existed in London, England in the 1890's. This predates the Binet, though not the Cattell. Harding suspects this club is associated with Sir Francis Galton.

Fruhlingsglaube (5:25:27 PM): Wow, two different sources!
BigFlax29 (5:25:31 PM): w00t
Fruhlingsglaube (5:26:27 PM): Dr. Ware seemed disheartened by the Mensans' seeming inability to focus beyond self-gratifying pursuits and apply their collective brain-power to problems facing the world today. "I do get disappointed that so many members spend so much time solving puzzles," Ware said. "It's a form of mental masturbation. Nothing comes of it."
Fruhlingsglaube (5:26:29 PM): THAT man, I like
BigFlax29 (5:26:42 PM): heh

Fruhlingsglaube (5:31:31 PM): I don't think I'll ever complain about antisocial quiz bowl geeks ever again
BigFlax29 (5:31:41 PM): heh

Fruhlingsglaube (5:41:58 PM): Hmm, I was scrolling to find funni-ness just now, and noticed that Paulus has "Wilhelmina" in his name
Fruhlingsglaube (5:42:04 PM): "Ha ha, you're a GIRL"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:42:06 PM): "..."
BigFlax29 (5:42:13 PM): haha
Fruhlingsglaube (5:42:17 PM): "...will you make out with me?"
BigFlax29 (5:42:23 PM): haha
Fruhlingsglaube (5:42:27 PM): "NO!"
BigFlax29 (5:42:31 PM): "shut up, gundarsson!"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:42:33 PM): "Okay, will you just hold me, then?"
BigFlax29 (5:43:01 PM): "jeez, andreas, go jerk off some more, already"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:43:14 PM): "it's like mental masturbation"

BigFlax29 (5:47:28 PM): I think you should send them e-mail
BigFlax29 (5:47:59 PM): "this is constable anybody from the royal society for total dorks"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:48:03 PM): LOLOL
Fruhlingsglaube (5:48:23 PM): "Please show up at the Corner Deli for the initiation ceremony. By invitation only. Black Tie."
BigFlax29 (5:48:32 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (5:48:49 PM): *dork in tuxedo stands in deli*
Fruhlingsglaube (5:48:53 PM): *single tear slips down his face*
Fruhlingsglaube (5:49:00 PM): *pushes his glasses back up*
Fruhlingsglaube (5:49:11 PM): *calls dad to come get him*
BigFlax29 (5:50:26 PM): am I the only one who gets the feeling that somewhere in the netherlands, 20 years ago, a club was started called the society of no-cooijmans?
BigFlax29 (5:50:47 PM): "but you let in magnus cooijmans!"
BigFlax29 (5:50:53 PM): "we're allowed to have one"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:52:33 PM): hee
Fruhlingsglaube (5:52:42 PM): "I'm one of the nine smartest people in the world!"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:52:52 PM): "Yeah, well, I've kissed four girls. I'm kissing one right now."
BigFlax29 (5:52:57 PM): heh
Fruhlingsglaube (5:54:39 PM): "She's holding my hand and whispering theorems into my ear..."
BigFlax29 (5:54:45 PM): haha
Fruhlingsglaube (5:55:24 PM): "Therefore if, P|0..." *whispers trail off*
Fruhlingsglaube (5:55:32 PM): "Oh, ho, HOOOO... can you SAY that?"
BigFlax29 (5:56:00 PM): hahaha
BigFlax29 (5:56:06 PM): "you minx!"
Fruhlingsglaube (5:56:28 PM): "Come here, you saucy vixen! I'll show YOU whose P ='s zero!"
BigFlax29 (5:56:49 PM): hehe

December 31, 2003

BigFlax29 (12:58:05 AM): not exactly a "hot" picture
Fruhlingsglaube (12:58:10 AM): ...no?
BigFlax29 (12:58:29 AM): I mean, you don't look bad or anything
Fruhlingsglaube (12:58:29 AM): those goggles aren't making you think wicked, nerdy thoughts?
BigFlax29 (12:58:31 AM): heh
BigFlax29 (12:58:41 AM): no, but that question now is
BigFlax29 (12:58:43 AM): hehe
Fruhlingsglaube (12:58:47 AM): LOL
BigFlax29 (12:58:55 AM): "do you think she keeps the goggles on the whole time?"
Fruhlingsglaube (12:59:00 AM): AH HAH HAH HAH
Fruhlingsglaube (12:59:03 AM): I can't believe you said that

December 27, 2003