You may be a Mensan if:

  1. You have devoted more than one room of your house to books.
  2. You have gone out shopping in a storm because you are out of chocolate.
  3. You actually like wine in a box, or strange local brands of beer.
  4. You own more T-shirts than regular shirts, and they all say something profound.
  5. You have more than one cat.
  6. You only subscribe to cable for premium channels like The Discovery Channel.
  7. Most of your vacation time is spent at Mensa Regional and Annual Gatherings.
  8. You have written to the makers of Trivial Pursuit, correcting one of their answers.
  9. Reader's Digest contacts you for words for "It Pays to Enrich Your Word Power".
  10. You have tried to buy a Berlitz course in Klingon.
  11. You voted Libertarian in the last election.
  12. You have found Mensa bucks under the cushions of your couch.
  13. You have a drawer full of tiny hotel shampoo bottles, which you never use.
  14. You have a closet full of costumes.
  15. Operators at Wireless or Signals recognize your voice.

Please feel free to add to the list, and send me the additions.

Mark Hutchenreuther is

hutch@rain.org