Comments on: Geniuses! Get Yer Desi Geniuses Herrre! http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/20/geniuses_get_ye/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: chick pea http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/20/geniuses_get_ye/comment-page-1/#comment-88298 chick pea Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:02:56 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3801#comment-88298 <p>B-A-N-G</p> B-A-N-G

]]> By: Salil Maniktahla http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/20/geniuses_get_ye/comment-page-1/#comment-88295 Salil Maniktahla Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:55:10 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3801#comment-88295 <p>wow. no takers at all?</p> <p>chickpea, I think this prize goes to you, since it would be unseemly to award it to myself, no matter how deserving I am or how badly I want an Oreo. Or pink nail polish.</p> <p>The Viagra pen is like coals to Newcastle, though. My dad's a urologist.</p> <p>And that makes me sound kind of like I'm bragging. Someone shoot me.</p> wow. no takers at all?

chickpea, I think this prize goes to you, since it would be unseemly to award it to myself, no matter how deserving I am or how badly I want an Oreo. Or pink nail polish.

The Viagra pen is like coals to Newcastle, though. My dad’s a urologist.

And that makes me sound kind of like I’m bragging. Someone shoot me.

]]> By: chick pea http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/20/geniuses_get_ye/comment-page-1/#comment-88289 chick pea Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:39:37 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3801#comment-88289 <p>salil: i'll even add in a few things for the prize.. my hot pink bottle of nail polish and a viagra pen... hows the prize looking now? hmm.. maybe i can even my copy of curious george... ding ding ding..</p> salil: i’ll even add in a few things for the prize.. my hot pink bottle of nail polish and a viagra pen… hows the prize looking now? hmm.. maybe i can even my copy of curious george… ding ding ding..

]]> By: chick pea http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/20/geniuses_get_ye/comment-page-1/#comment-88284 chick pea Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:31:51 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3801#comment-88284 <p>i say give it to PG ;)</p> i say give it to PG ;)

]]> By: Salil Maniktahla http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/20/geniuses_get_ye/comment-page-1/#comment-88282 Salil Maniktahla Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:30:19 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3801#comment-88282 <blockquote>I did my own show-me-the-desis scan of the list yesterday. Not to get mushy, but in doing so I felt confident that on some not too distant day, someone from the Mutiny - blogger, poster, lurker - will be a MacArthurite.</blockquote> <p>Bah! I hereby am creating our own Gosh-Dang! Award, the <b>Macacarthur Award for Smartest-Brown-Ever-This-Week</b>.</p> <p>Prizes: I have 75 cents in change in my pocket and a box of Oreos, plus a VCD of "JISM: The Dark Side of Desire."</p> <p>How to win: So far the pool of nominations are...well, everyone on this site. I'll probably pick someone I like a lot, so start kissing some ass, fools.</p> I did my own show-me-the-desis scan of the list yesterday. Not to get mushy, but in doing so I felt confident that on some not too distant day, someone from the Mutiny – blogger, poster, lurker – will be a MacArthurite.

Bah! I hereby am creating our own Gosh-Dang! Award, the Macacarthur Award for Smartest-Brown-Ever-This-Week.

Prizes: I have 75 cents in change in my pocket and a box of Oreos, plus a VCD of “JISM: The Dark Side of Desire.”

How to win: So far the pool of nominations are…well, everyone on this site. I’ll probably pick someone I like a lot, so start kissing some ass, fools.

]]> By: ShallowThinker http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/20/geniuses_get_ye/comment-page-1/#comment-88220 ShallowThinker Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:31:50 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3801#comment-88220 <p>On a funny note one of the winner's was a African American Professor at NorthWestern University and her work is to prove that all white people are racist by using MRI images of people's brain's. Even the white people who are extremely liberal show sign's of fighting back racist thoughts when talking to people of color.</p> <p>The funny thing was watching the white news anchors on tv smile and congratulate her on her grant for proving that white people are racist.</p> On a funny note one of the winner’s was a African American Professor at NorthWestern University and her work is to prove that all white people are racist by using MRI images of people’s brain’s. Even the white people who are extremely liberal show sign’s of fighting back racist thoughts when talking to people of color.

The funny thing was watching the white news anchors on tv smile and congratulate her on her grant for proving that white people are racist.

]]> By: Navratan Kurma http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/20/geniuses_get_ye/comment-page-1/#comment-88210 Navratan Kurma Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:16:12 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3801#comment-88210 <p>Haha! SM readers are kinda slow talking about geniuses. Nothing gets us mutineers in the mood like desi hotties and discussions about skin color and oppression.</p> Haha! SM readers are kinda slow talking about geniuses. Nothing gets us mutineers in the mood like desi hotties and discussions about skin color and oppression.

]]> By: BrooklynBrown http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/20/geniuses_get_ye/comment-page-1/#comment-88180 BrooklynBrown Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:07:09 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3801#comment-88180 <blockquote>Not to get mushy, but in doing so I felt confident that on some not too distant day, someone from the Mutiny - blogger, poster, lurker - will be a MacArthurite.</blockquote> <p>I'm sure of it.</p> <p>The MacArthurs are some of my favorite awards because of the diversity of the fields and the surprise factor. In addition to the macaca winners, other highlights for me were George Saunders (amazing short story writer), Linda Griffiths (biomol engineer), and Victoria Hale (low-cost drug developer). These people are really amazing.</p> Not to get mushy, but in doing so I felt confident that on some not too distant day, someone from the Mutiny – blogger, poster, lurker – will be a MacArthurite.

I’m sure of it.

The MacArthurs are some of my favorite awards because of the diversity of the fields and the surprise factor. In addition to the macaca winners, other highlights for me were George Saunders (amazing short story writer), Linda Griffiths (biomol engineer), and Victoria Hale (low-cost drug developer). These people are really amazing.

]]> By: kavita http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/20/geniuses_get_ye/comment-page-1/#comment-88171 kavita Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:46:04 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3801#comment-88171 <p>Hmm, loox lyk dey fergot to menshun my naym on dis yeer's lyst... ~ I did my own show-me-the-desis scan of the list yesterday. Not to get mushy, but in doing so I felt confident that on some not too distant day, someone from the Mutiny - blogger, poster, lurker - will be a MacArthurite.</p> <p>You heard it here first.</p> Hmm, loox lyk dey fergot to menshun my naym on dis yeer’s lyst… ~ I did my own show-me-the-desis scan of the list yesterday. Not to get mushy, but in doing so I felt confident that on some not too distant day, someone from the Mutiny – blogger, poster, lurker – will be a MacArthurite.

You heard it here first.

]]> By: Pritha http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2006/09/20/geniuses_get_ye/comment-page-1/#comment-88137 Pritha Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:35:08 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=3801#comment-88137 <p>Shall we celebrate general macaca-genius with a task force lunch this weekend?</p> Shall we celebrate general macaca-genius with a task force lunch this weekend?

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