INT vs WIS

[apsuman]

My wife and I were at my in-laws sitting her grandmother. One night my wife and I decided to make chicken nachos. My in-laws have one of those in door grills (a jenn-air?)

I consider myself smart and I know from my education and experience that the chicken will cook faster on the grill in smaller pieces, so I cut it into strips while the grill surface is getting hot.

So I transwer my work to the grill surface and about 20% of the chicken falls through the grill slots. DOH! I realized that this was not the wisest thing to do.

At that moment a light bulb went off! "Not the wisest thing to do" repeated in my head. I thought this was a perfect way to shared the difference between Intelligence and Wisdom.

There I feel better.

g!

 

[Greatwyrm]

Don't remember who first said this, but...

Intelligence gets you out of the trouble Wisdom would have kept you from in the first place.

 

[333 Dave]

The wisest thing to do would have been put a sheet of alumnium foil on the grill to prevent the chicken from sliding through the bars.
Silly .

 

[CRG]

The wisest thing to do would have been put a sheet of alumnium foil on the grill to prevent the chicken from sliding through the bars.

The wisest thing would have been to have your wife make the chicken.

(ducking)

What? You don't have your Wizard or Cleric checking for traps do you?

(still ducking)

 

[apsuman]

The wisest thing to do would have been put a sheet of alumnium foil on the grill to prevent the chicken from sliding through the bars.
Silly .

See, I (of low wisdomw) think the wiseest thing would be to cut the chicken into larger peices.

g!

 

[Umbran]

The wisest thing to do would have been put a sheet of alumnium foil on the grill to prevent the chicken from sliding through the bars.
Silly .

Yes, but that probably would not have been Intelligent.

Putting in the foil - a sheet of metal that would redistribute and reradiate the heat - would have probably messed up the grill's ability to cook. In some cases, it might even start a fire - I've seen people torch up those indoor grills really impressively.

Sometimes you need both Int and Wis to solve a problem

 

[Avatar_V]

Hehehe... I can relate. I've always done very well in school and I'm good at math and physics and stuff (those are my majors), so I'm generally considered pretty intelligent; but I do a lot of dumb stuff. There was the time that my friend and I couldn't find a baseball, so we figured playing baseball with a basketball would be fun (cool grounders and stuff, we figured). I was up to bat first, hit the basketball really hard and was shocked when the bat bounced off the ball and hit me in the forehead. There's still blood on his porch; it was a huge mess. I ended up with a dozen stiches! Then there were the times (yes, this should be plural) that I accidentally set my leg on fire making flares for a game of capture the flag. Oh, and of course that time I backed the car out of the garage without opening the garage door first. Hmm... there are plenty of others... My friends all tell me that I'm both the dumbest and smartest person they know. Wisdom and intelligence are very different

 

[Oogar]

Joel Rosenberg had a quote from "The Sleeping Dragon" which compaired Wisdom to Int. At the moment I am too lazy to find the book so I can quote word for word. It boiled down to the following:

High Wisdom with Low Int = Edith Bunker

High Int with Low Wisdom = Richard Nixon

This of course worked much better in the old 1st and 2nd edition rules.
3rd Ed confuses me with the combination of wisdom being not simply Willpower and Common Sense, but also a blend of perception and intuition. Personally I don't like that much at all.

Another quote (paraphrased) about wisdom which I enjoy is from R.A. Heinlin. It boils down to this. As you age you don't really gain wisdom, you just become too tired to do stupid things. I truely wish I could have found a copy of that one for you all. "Time Enough For Love" & "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long" contain the true quote.

In topic, I would have to admit if I am going to make anything in the Kitchen it will be Chocolate Chip Cookies, A Grilled Cheese Sandwich or something else as lacking in nutritional value as those two items.

 

[Nish]

What I would have done is straighten some paper clips and skewer the small peices of chicken and put the ends of the paper clips across the too wide bars of the grill. You'd have to be careful taking them out though, or they might fall in. I'd use some needle nose pliers to grab the ends of the paper clips.

-Nish: Who is neither smart nor wise, but growing up spent alot of time in offices, and is never depleted of uses for paper clips, scotch tape and rubber bands.

 

[333 Dave]

The foil seems to work when my dad or one of my uncles cook on the grill...