Extremely Trivial Pursuits

November, 1985

There's seven of us," said Jake. "So how do we divide the teams?""Well," I said, "we'll just take the three cleverest and most erudite. They can play against the four more thickheaded. Cleo, Rita and I will take on you four guys.""You guys are dead meat," said Rita."That's sexist," said Fred. "You women can't be left for a second without perpetrating some kind of sexist remark. Men are not stupider than women.""Now, Fred, we w...