The 'idiocy quotient'

What is this whole IQ business?
Ever since they had that game show-style IQ quiz on TV everyone wants to tell you how smart they are.
Frankly, my theory is that if someone's boasting about his or her IQ then they're bound to be a loony, orbiting around their own self-importance like the Earth around the sun which shines out of their proverbials.

Saying that, apparently my husband and I are very high IQs, as, I suspect are my children.
Keeping this in mind, The Man frankly couldn't get up in the mornings if I didn't kick him in the kidneys twice (on a really bad day I take a running leap).
My daughter and I are lucky to remember to brush our hair before leaving the house in the morning and The Boy thinks its funny to pee into the wind...so really, in the light of that evidence, how much can this whole IQ thing count for?

One not-friend I used to know would boast constantly about his high IQ but wasn't smart enough to delete the letters from his internet mistress before his wife logged on to check the family email.

Another genius I came across thought he could avoid a drug test at work by carrying a plastic sandwich bag of 'clean' urine around with him in his work bag. Except, he threw the bag into his locker one 48 degree day, the snaplock bag flew open, and he came back to boots, socks and underwear smelling less than 'clean'.

I begin to think IQ stands for 'idiocy quotient' - how potentially stupid smart people can be.

I wonder if there's some high-IQ person out there who'd like to do a study on how closely correlated high IQs and low common sense are related?

Hey, if someone will fund a study to find out whether you're more likely to get knocked up by your lover or your husband...someone will fund this!

& by the way, that game show-style IQ quiz...
The Man and I were so busy cooking dinner for our fellow IQ quizzees that we could only do half of the quiz each, inbetween running back and forward from the kitchen.
As a result, we cumulatively scored in the early 200s...but if you cut that in half I think it means we're lucky we can get our pants on in the morning without putting both legs in one hole.