Just sittin here waiting for Scott Adams to threaten to sue us over making fun of him on the podcast based on the elements of defamation he’s made up in his head
@Popehat will the LOL-suit come in three panel format?
@Popehat The sad part is he's a Mensa member, yet he's so freakin' dumb. A high IQ doesn't equal real intelligence sometimes.
@socalvillaguy @Popehat no, that pretty much tracks with MENSA members. It started as a dating club for eugenicists who think Idiocracy is a documentary and still appeals to the same kind of people.

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That Columbo episode: "here I was surrounded by the smartest people in the world and I didn't even notice."

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My thoughts on Mensa are fairly similar to Groucho Marx's reason for resigning from the Friar's Club. "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."

@socalvillaguy that’s why mental IQ and emotional IQ need to be balanced when judging actual intelligence.

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@socalvillaguy @Popehat MENSA isn't high IQ - it's just higher than 98% of the population. By definition, 6 million people in the US alone, 150 million in the world; "I'm MENSA" isn't much of a boast. That said, the level of nuttery in really HiQ societies (99.9% and above) is completely off the charts.
@Popehat But Scott Adams is a very stable hypnotist slash genius you might be in trouble here uh oh frick
@Popehat I enjoyed the podcast, let’s hope Clott Adams provides more entertainment 🙃
@Popehat You made fun of him? Very well, I shall listen to your podcast. Well played...

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great episode, but if he does sue, I guess the next one will be even better!

@Popehat you can guarantee it will be badly drafted and poorly drawn up

@Popehat Man, if only he had some better, more nuanced way to criticize his critics. Like maybe if he’d created a wildly successful comic strip years ago and he somehow could leverage that to… hmmm… and then… no, that seems like a lot of effort.

Bumptious legal threats it is!

@Popehat Has he ever gotten to "phase 2" yet?
@Popehat Beware, he is a trained hypnotist
@Popehat by pointing out the stupid things Scott Adams has done, you are impugning his character by leading others to believe that he does stupid things. When Scott Adams is stupid you have a moral obligation to at the very least ignore it or, ideally, loudly proclaim "what a smart boy this Scott Adams is!"
@Popehat It still baffles me that a guy who got famous making fun of the doldrums of office life turned into a MAGA weirdo.
@zachgateshere @Popehat not surprising once you recognize the commonality: magas and office workers are both fundamentally unhappy

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Just listened to that; excellent episode. Could I take the heat off of you if I were to call him a "nut" or "unhinged"?

@Popehat Can’t he just use affirmations to make you hand over money to him without the bother of a lawsuit?
@Popehat I think he'll go for RICO — and win!
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I genuinely laughed at some of Scott Adams's jokes in the 1990's. I never thought that someone who was funny could end up so humorlessly dumb. He's kind of my Stay-Puft man.
@[email protected]. Dilbert Jesus will get you for this.
@Popehat You should ask him if the "hunting of conservatives" he predicted has happened yet.
@Popehat Fortunately, he’s missing the element of “publication on Twitter “
@Popehat I hope you didn't try talking him out of sueing Ben Garrison and ruining all of our fun.
@Popehat Wasn't there an absolutely hilarious SCOTUS decision a little while back where they narrowly decided against sanctioning a lawyer whose client wrote an indecipherable SCOTUS appeal on similarly hallucinatory legal principles and somehow got the lawyer to sign the doc?
@Popehat watch out he still has a kraken to be released he told so many times about.