Humor Columnist
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Dear Miss Mensa: What was life like before the Internet? Signed, Gen X - - -
Dear Jen: Before the Internet, Miss Mensa walked to school in the snow and re-read paperback books. She looked forward eagerly to the arrival of the Weekly Reader newspaper for children. She watched three channels on TV. - - -
Dear Miss Mensa: What exactly do all the planets and animals in the biosphere DO during the 10 million years that it takes to recover from an ice age? Signed, Puzzled in the Pleistocene
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Dear Puzzled: They take a holiday and loaf around in their jammies, eating soup and crackers, and watching Oprah. They buy a lot of stuff they don't really need and then spend 10 million years paying off their credit cards. They work out in the gym and get really buff. And they pay for it all by day-trading stocks. What did you think they did?
