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MSN Sponsors Mensa

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-smarter dept.

crankyspice writes "Fresh on the heels of Google courting members via GLAT advertisements in the Bulletin, Microsoft's MSN is now sponsoring American Mensa events, featuring Mensa questions on the MSN homepage, and Mensa will put MSN's search on their new homepage."

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  1. has to be said by no+reason+to+be+here · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mensa will put MSN's search on their new homepage.

    That's not very smart.

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  2. The power of MSN and Mensa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there was ever a group of self-important dweebs who deserved each other more, I can't imagine it.

  3. To sum up: by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 5, Funny

    To sum up everyone's responses to this:
    1. No one respects Mensa since they base their membership on tests of dubious veracity and not on real world accomplishments.
    2. And signing up with a deal with MSN kind of just drives the point home, doesn't it?

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  4. Too bad.... by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Funny

    featuring Mensa questions on the MSN homepage, and Mensa will put MSN's search on their new homepage.

    Whatever, that's fine with me.

    It's just really too bad they keep spelling it "Msna".

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  5. Karma Whore by mtrisk · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's a quick link to the wikipedia entry on Karma Whore. Karma Whore Some info on what Karma Whore's goals are. Karma Whore has three stated purposes: to post information about a topic that everyone already knows; to link to wikipedia, because wikipedia pwns; and most importantly, to sell his/her brain to slashdot in order to whore karma. (from my cortex)

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  6. make sense by prockcore · · Score: 5, Funny

    It makes sense. A mensa membership carries about the same degree of prestige as an MSCE cert.

    (Read: none at all)

  7. I guess you can buy genius... by trisweb · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft's MSN is now sponsoring American Mensa events, featuring Mensa questions on the MSN homepage, and Mensa will put MSN's search on their new homepage in exchange for allowing Microsoft founder and CEO Bill Gates into their organization.

    When asked of this peculiar action, Mr. Gates told reporters: "I tried the tests and the puzzles and stuff, but I couldn't really figure them out. Then I realized that I was the richest man in the world and I didn't have to deal with this crap."

    Gates also spoke of creating a new organization tangential to Mensa, the Pecunia Society. "It has only one requirement -- just have more money than 99.998% of the world's population!"

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