Subject: Texas Culture
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 19:30:03 EDT

True Story.

I was driving through downtown San Antonio with my boss when we passed a
sign reading "Museum of Texas Culture."

"Huh.  That ought to take about ten minutes to see,' I scoffed.

Without missing a beat my boss replied, "Why in God's name would you want to
go through twice?"

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Article 7483 of alt.humor.best-of-usenet:
From: Daniel Ewing <dewing@chelmsford.com>
Subject: [alt.folklore.urban] Evidence of Intelligent Life in Texas
Date: 27 Jun 1997 12:21:00 -0700

Subject: Evidence of Intelligent Life in Texas 
From: tallboy29@aol.com (Tallboy29)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban

Check my numbers, I've had several people tell me that my numbers were on
the order of 100 times higher than they should be; thus, negating my
theory that there is actual intelligent life in Texas.

Of course, I am talking here of 'collective intelligence', any other
assertion would bring immediate ridicule of my hypothesis.

HERE GOES:

If there are 6.4 million citizens of Texas, and each one had a measurable
.00001 of an I.Q. point, that would give the state of Texas a 'collective
intelligence' of 64 I.Q. points.  This would put Texas at 4 I.Q. points
above clinically retarded (60 I.Q. points).  

Now some of you have stated that my numbers are artificially inflated
because I may have friends or relatives in Texas (not true), or I may have
been born there (insult!), or that I didn't properly adjust for the
occasional out-of-state visitor (I made all the proper adjustments).

I realize that I am risking my professional reputation by stating that
there is intelligent life in Texas; however, please remember that this is
only a hypothesis; also, just in case, I'm signing...

anonymous