Offtopic PEELie: Smartest PEELer

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Another one I was tempted to just award to myself.

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Xanfor is sort of scary-smart, but coffeeBot is also quite the brainiac. In this case, I may have to go with my whole "A Vote for coffeeBot or spira is a Vote for Me" principle.

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FYP is really, flippin smart.

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Don't you remember Soylent's Animation of the theorized genesis of a gamma ray burst ?

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I do!  As well as along with a plenitude of plentiful many manifold other things.  I will probably be electing to go with soybean.

like a.. supercharged electron.  >_>

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Don't you remember Soylent's Animation of the theorized genesis of a gamma ray burst ?

I do remember, which is why I'm going with Soylent.

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Smart PEELers can now vote. I guess the rest of you can, too.

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Another tough call. Going with Xanfor in the end.

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Xanfor, he's smart enough not to post a pic on Peel ...

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How many of the candidates have a Master's degree?  FYP has a Master's degree....

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How many of the candidates have a Master's degree?

Three, I think. soylentOrange, coffeeBot, and FYP.

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How many are going for their PhD right now?

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How many are going for their PhD right now?

I think soylentOrange has his already, coffeeBot is taking time out of hers, and FYP is currently partway through his studies.

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I don't have a master's yet, and I dropped out of my PhD program. I'll probably get one or the other eventually, but I'm taking a "break" (i.e. getting another bachelor's first).
Long, overly dramatic story.

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* booze imagines coffeBot's mansion full of men standing around in glass cases. The later properly labelled with their scientific bachelor names.

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* kmpari imagines booze and coffee 'mixing'

Ah, pointless innuendo.

Neins, soy doth not have it already either, is in the process of toiling for his.  Arduously.  And considering it seems to keep switching around between and involves and comprises everything from dark matter to masers to gamma ray bursts to cosmic microwave background radiation to interstellar envelopes to Very Large Arrays of desert telescopes, it is somewhat toilsome indeed.
Not to deny that that list or field of candidates (and/or PhD candidates!) is brainy.

(brainier than a cotton field)

Thus however,

The gold standard for the rest of us to live up to.

Gold standard, orange standard, whatever.

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Is a decree really required to be smart?  Doesn't it more show that you are capable of living up to society's requirements?  Sheep away!

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Well of course not.  Neither a decree nor a degree.  Also I believe I am going to vote for you for Nurdliest Snip - I surmise you have earned that - I will probably post there at some
point  some further time  at an undisclosed junction  in an unknown future - and I already pledged my vote to you for Avatar.  Also you art not a sheep, but a bonobo duck.

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The fact that there are not a lot of votes in this poll tells me we have some stupid PEELers. Prove you're smart and cast a vote.

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I say if people aren't smart enough to vote here, we give the PEELie to Ilovebender.com or Bender_is_Great!

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I will hurt you so badly.

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I voted for Xanfor. He's several different types of smart, rolled into one.

As for the discussion of doctorates - it's been said that advanced degrees are more of a testament to perseverance than intelligence. Not to demean higher education, of course. I damn well would expect my doctor to have earned his degree fair and square.

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The smart PEELers will have already figured out who has won. The rest of you will have to click the link.