Poetic Licence: Trouble at Mensa
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Your support makes all the difference.Mrs Julie Baxter, the sacked head of Mensa, claims that there are "dark forces at work" within the organisation. She plans to invite people like Richard Branson and Paul Merton to form a rival society, whose members will have to prove emotional maturity as well as a high IQ
There's something up at Mensa
The home of high IQs
Some egghead argy-bargy
It's not surprising news
With academic foreheads
And steely glints in eyes
They sail through
astro-physics
But can't do up their flies
We're talking two per centers
Who put the shapes in holes
And understand the ball-game
As Eysenck set the goals
Those brainy Midwich
Cuckoos
Who pass 11-pluses
Then ponder Newton's 3rd Law
While walking under buses
But here's a proposition
For those a trifle denser:
Let's form a rival brain pool
And call it Common Sensa
Literate with emotions
Experienced as lovers
Our members will be experts
At fitting duvet covers
Our houses free of hazards
Our plugs correctly wired-up
Our boilers summer-serviced
Before we have them fired-up
Our circuit-breakers purchased
Our lawnmower flex behind us
Our Reader's Digest novels
Condensed and in their binders
Certificates we issue
In gothic-looking letters
We tell our envious
neighbours
We know that we're their
betters
And hanging in our kitchens
Will crystallise forever
The quiet conceit of people
Who want it known they're clever
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