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I’m in the queue, so I have lesser IQ?

My cousin, an eldest sib­ling, alerted me to this news find­ing: The eldest chil­dren in fam­i­lies tend to develop higher I.Q.’s than their sib­lings, researchers are report­ing, in a large study that could set­tle more than a half-century of sci­en­tific debate about the rela­tion­ship between I.Q. and birth order.
Salient Points

The study was car­ried out only on men. Researchers say

Top Ten Signs You’re Addicted To Asterix

In the mid-1990’s, the Inter­net humor scene was pro­lif­er­ated by “Top Ten Signs”. It started with “Top Ten Signs You’re Addicted To The Inter­net”, and now includes Google and Blog­ging!
Well, I’m a self-confessed Asterix addict, and I tried to find signs you’re addicted to it, but there were none. Hence, I decided to come up with my own.  So here goes…
Top Ten Signs You’re Addicted To Asterix
10. You exclaim ‘By Tou­tatis’ in sur­prise.
9. You feel hun­gry after see­ing Obelix eat boars.
8. You think all happy events should be cel­e­brated by a feast.
7. You mut­ter ‘By Belenos’ under