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[SOLVED] #082 Yellow - Sharp Red
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Flidget Jerome
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[SOLVED] #082 Yellow - Sharp Red

"Find out two side-effects of ceretin"

Kurt:
Subject: Why Pay More? Herbal Cere.tin 75% dis(ount
From: Mandy Alten <mandy@cheapceretin.com>
To: Undisclosed recipients

Hi Earth Player!

Want to inc.crease your IQ by 150 points!!!1! and get lad!es to swo0n at the size of you.r intelle(t? Get ch_eap herbal Ceret.in now! Save 7_5% by ord/ring on-line.

- private translations

- secur3 systems

- quick and discreet delivery

Dont waste mon^ey on overp.iced product - Visit http://www.cheapceretin.com now for faster thinking!

Best regards,

Mandy Alten"
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:17 pm
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firefox
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a quick email to
Code:

Questions about Ceretin: ceretinSPLATcognivia.com


reveals the auto-reply message:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Thank you for your interest in Ceretin. Ceretin is the market's leading
wide-spectrum cognitive enhancer and offers significant advances over
previous generations and competing products. However, as with all cognitive
enhancers, it does have mild side effects. These include possible
disorientation, mild synaesthesia, restlessness and agitation. For more
information, please contact your doctor.

Ceretin Customer Support, Cognivia


with the answer(s) obviously being 2 of the following:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

disorientation, mild synaesthesia, restlessness and agitation


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JebJoya
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Find out 2 side effects of ceretin eh?

cognivia's website wrote:
Please note that all of our drugs cause minor side-effects. Contact your physician or Cognivia for more information.


/me emails cognivia

Jeb wrote:
You state on your products page:

"Please note that all of our drugs cause minor side-effects. Contact your physician or Cognivia for more information."


I was wondering if I could have some more information about the side effects specifically of Ceretin.

Thanks

Jebediah Joya


I got a reply in less than 5 minutes:

Spoiler (Rollover to View):

Thank you for your interest in Ceretin. Ceretin is the market's leading
wide-spectrum cognitive enhancer and offers significant advances over
previous generations and competing products. However, as with all cognitive
enhancers, it does have mild side effects. These include possible
disorientation, mild synaesthesia, restlessness and agitation. For more
information, please contact your doctor.

Ceretin Customer Support, Cognivia


That was easy

Jeb

edit: added spoilerization, ignoring the fact that firefox beat me.
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Sounds like fun to me Wink
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Not really knowing what synaesthesia was I looked it up and discovered that itmeans

Quote:
Synaesthesia (also spelled synesthesia) is the neurological mixing of the senses. A synaesthete may, for example, hear colors, see sounds, and taste tactile sensations. Although this may happen in a person who has autism, it is by no means exclusive to autistics. Synaesthesia is a common effect of some hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD or mescaline.

or
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One feeling or perception described with words usually used for a totally different or opposite feeling or perception. Ex: "The sky smelled blue." "The soft hum of fog."


While Sharp Red may be defined by "These little red pills sharpen my cognitive abilities" It could also describe how people on this may "feel" the color red.

>edited for typos<

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nmarciano
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side effects of ceretin

i recieved this email about ceretin
Dear Customer,

THIS EMAIL HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY THE COGNIVIA LEGAL DEPARTMENT AND
PERPLEX CITY

'cheapceretin.com' is selling illegal and dangerous fakes of the
Ceretin
cognitive enhancer drug and we are in the process of closing down their
bank and
website operations. Please do not attempt to make any transactions with
'cheapceretin.com' or any other similar sites.

Alexandra Treater
Cognivia.com

maybee 2 more side effects are they are illegal and dangerous i didnt know what to think about this

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Seej
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Increasing your IQ by 150 points is a hell of a claim. Average (on Earth at least) is 100, below 70 and you're gonna struggle with shoelaces, over 130 and you're doing pretty good and 150+ will get you into Mensa. Taking an average person and whacking them up to an IQ of 250 would be ridiculous. And extra 30 points would be a big increase, but 150? I don't even know how you could accurately measure something like this.

Of course, this is probably just a spammer lie, but normally they're not so whopping.

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if they are that smart (200+ IQ) maybe we should ask one of them nicely to solve all our puzzles for us Smile

it shouldnt take them more than a few minutes
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Would the perplexians be using the same scale as we do for IQ? It seems strange to think that they would base their system with 100 for the average Earthling. These people are supposed to be great with puzzles and are a very intellectual society, it seems like their average IQ would be in the region of 150 by our standards
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Seej
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Jinja87 wrote:
Would the perplexians be using the same scale as we do for IQ? It seems strange to think that they would base their system with 100 for the average Earthling. These people are supposed to be great with puzzles and are a very intellectual society, it seems like their average IQ would be in the region of 150 by our standards


Ah, but the message from Mandy Alten is directed at Earth players.

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There was a great programme by the BBc's Horizon programme called

"derek tastes of earwax" basically on Synaesthesia. Whenever this one person said or thought of the name derek - he tasted earwax. Those who have it experience it differently.

For some Monday might taste of hot sticky fudge whilst another sees it as Red. The earliest abilities of language are said to derive from our ability to associate sounds with words or objects.

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To add to the Synaesthesia based references, there is a teenage-fiction book called '[google]Mondays are Red[/google]' where the entire book is writen from a synaethetic point of view. Man, did it hurt my head trying to understand some of the description...
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Jinja87 wrote:
Would the perplexians be using the same scale as we do for IQ? It seems strange to think that they would base their system with 100 for the average Earthling. These people are supposed to be great with puzzles and are a very intellectual society, it seems like their average IQ would be in the region of 150 by our standards

IQ results are bell-curved. Roughly 68% percent of results will fit within one standard deviation of the mean (that means that roughly 68% percent of the people on Earth have IQs in the range of 90-110); roughly 95% of the people on Earth have their IQs distributed between 80 and 120. Less than half of a percent of people on Earth will have an IQ of over 130, or, alternatively, of under 70.

An IQ's standard deviation is split up into 10 points, but it could be split up into 20 or 50, I suppose, in PC. However, even at 50 points per, we're still talking about 3 standard deviations increase. That is ginormous Shocked

The point is: it doesn't matter what their mean is compared to ours. How much of an increase in terms of their points are we talking about? If it's anything above 1 standard deviation, I would think that'd be pretty... stupendous, I guess.
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toongoon wrote:
Not really knowing what synaesthesia was I looked it up and discovered that itmeans

Quote:
Synaesthesia (also spelled synesthesia) is the neurological mixing of the senses. A synaesthete may, for example, hear colors, see sounds, and taste tactile sensations. Although this may happen in a person who has autism, it is by no means exclusive to autistics. Synaesthesia is a common effect of some hallucinogenic drugs such as LSD or mescaline.




my mother's got synaesthesia

she tells me what really obscure shades the days of the week and months of the year are

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Hmm, I've got a friend who always describes things in colours - similarly to how you say napier, the days of the week are a common point. I'd never thought that they might actually have this condition, I just thought they were being generally weird. Although, knowing them, they probably were just being generally weird.

That was a pointless post. Hey ho.

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