Max Cherry & the Triple Nine Society

Happy Mother's day Lola...

Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused Novocaine during a root canal? His goal: transcend dental medication.

Jean-Paul Sartre is sitting at a French cafe, revising his draft of Being and Nothingness. He says to the waitress, “I’d like a cup of coffee, please, with no cream.”

The waitress replies, “I’m sorry, Monsieur, but we’re out of cream. How about with no milk?”

A Roman walks into a bar and asks for a martinus. “You mean a martini?” the bartender asks. The Roman replies, “If I wanted a double, I would have asked for it!”

Another Roman walks into the bar, holds up two fingers, and says, “Five beers, please.”

A Roman walks into a bar....ouch !

(....that was so dumb)

I'm writing a shorty about an ant that lives in a wall where they're keeping a young 'life w/out parole' inmate on a small idyllic island (like a paradise). I'm telling it in the first "ant" (  ). It's kinda like something between the animated An Ant's Life & Henri Charriere's a/b called Papillon (1969).

It tells how happy & simple one can feel while the other suffers in misery & regret. The cohabitation eventually brings the man to look forward each & every day to seeing his only trustworthy friend....tho' the ant doesn't fully understand why nor why the man feels so trapped as the ant can leave at any time....but loves living inside the walls !

Kinda of a "one's floor is actually one's ceiling" typa thing.

Nice concept. You do have an ending in mind ? Is there a 'morale' to the story ?

I'm actually trying to stay wayaway from the Aesop thingy - not ez. The ending is pretty much that the ant ventures outside the walls & disappears while the prisoner hopes (his only hope) for his friend's return.

Just need to sit down & finish it now. I have alot of it in my head.

Sounds  abit like Papillon the ant..

....lol !

The ant leaves but soon returns in search of his friend, only to find the man has found his way out.The ant despairs, searching the island to no avail. An idea.

I think an ending finds the two reunited, can't leave it hanging with each finding themselves in the same situation as they began. A suggestion.

Often, such is the way of life, but people much prefer to read of hope. :-)

....maybe I'll finish the finish and someone else can provide a alternative ending  .

The TNS doesn't seem to really meet the 99.9 percentile criteria.  Heck, without lifting a finger I am very close to being qualified just based on SAT scores.  The massive growth in membership from certain countries (Czech) also seems suspect, like small nations in FIDE that sell chess titles.

A begger enters the monastery to become a monk and years of meditation. The monk when he leaves, tosses the pole with his meager belongings in a sack over his shoulder and returns to the outside world... as a begger.

It's the very handsome Robert Forster who is supersmart.     .999 Society 

The Triple Nine Society (TNS) is an international high IQ society for adults whose score on a standardised test demonstrates an IQ at or above the 99.9th percentile of the human population. 

TNS reports a member base of over 1,800 adults residing in 40 countries.

A qualifying score corresponds to an IQ of at least 146 for tests with standard deviation of 15, at least 149 for tests with a standard deviation of 16, or at least 173 for tests with a standard deviation of 24. In comparison, Mensa International, a high IQ society with member base in the tens-of-thousands, admits applicants who score at or above the 98th percentile, which corresponds with an IQ score of at least 130 (SD 15), 132 (SD 16), or 148 (SD 24).

Robert Forster just died.