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    Image of UlimaZeiram UlimaZeiram
    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    I think that you're all a bunch of fucking Liberal dorks. I went to Rutgers and Rutgers Law and I could buy and sell each one of you a dozen times every ten minutes. Oh, and about those singles' gatherings--I'm the one long-stroking your fantasy girl while your toiling with some algorithm. In fact, it went on for about 5 hours this afternoon.

    Any of you effete cocksuckers get a chance to catch the LSU/Georgia game today?
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    Phyllis Nefler promoted this comment Foster Kamer approved this comment UlimaZeiram was starred UlimaZeiram was unstarred
    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    10/03/09

    @UlimaZeiram: Jersey pride!
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    10/04/09

    @UlimaZeiram: Ah, I see what you're doing: "Your" jesting! In any case, Jerze + Jon Bon Jovi forevah!

    "Whooah, we're half-way there
    Livin' on a prayer!"
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    10/04/09

    @UlimaZeiram: Tucker Honey, Is That You?
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    Is there a name for this genre of writing, where a double-reverse irony pretends to be mocking a trust-fund world about which it is actually very anxious?
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    Seeräuber Jenny promoted this comment Edited by WretchedGnu at 10/03/09 8:25 PM WretchedGnu was starred WretchedGnu was unstarred
    Image of Helio Helio
    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    As a recent graduate of one of the original 8, the last fucking thing I want to do is go to a singles happy hour with the douchebags (and the people wishing to be like them) or completely socially inept legacies who populated my classes and dorms. *shudder*
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    Image of RenoDakota RenoDakota
    10/03/09

    @Helio: Uhm, yeah. I did not attend one of the original 8, just a lowly little liberal arts school in Ohio. But I have been around enough people who think so highly of themselves for having attended an Ivy that they talk loudly and endlessly about it and ruin everyone's night. Ex: at the Violet Hour in Chicago, being seated by two skinny nerd kids who swore they were in the Skull & Crossbones Society. At first I thought they were making a joke, mocking their friends who were braggy about being Yale alums, but no.... I stayed for one drink and left because it was so terrible to listen to.
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    10/04/09

    @RenoDakota: Oberlin is kindof the Dartmouth of Art Colleges.
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    Ive League? Double Brown? Uncorrected still?

    The Ivy League is a sports-related price-fixing scam. With a sprinkle of top notch education on top. Go where you think you can learn and be happy. And stuff your inferiority complexes in a sack. All minus, this is. And the list mes no sense.
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    10/03/09

    @ambitious: i'm hoping the glaring errors in this post are supposed to be some low level humor.
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    Foster Kamer promoted this comment Helio was starred Helio was unstarred
    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/03/09

    @Helio: BAH. Goddamnit. They should be corrected. If you're reading this on your phone, they probably aren't. And if you're on your computer, than your computer iz brokan. And also, take your Ivy League jealousy defense issues and stuff them up your ass, good sir! You missed the point.
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    10/03/09

    @Foster Kamer: pfft! No jealously from this woman, no siree!
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    Ah, so generous of you Ivy League "Plus" folk to relegate Stanford on the reserves bench when it comes to your roster of Ivy League fortresses of higher learning.

    Stanford = Google, dorks. You know, that little Internet-based thingie you've been using EVERY DAMN DAY OF YOUR LIVES SINCE 1998? It took root at Stanford. Where every student wears flip-flops and surf shorts. Wake me up when Brown/Darmouth students/grads come up with anything similar in impact.

    Sorry, I'm biased and protective because my dad was a Fulbright scholar at Stanford and I sort of grew up on that campus.
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    10/03/09

    @snugbug: I think you kinda substantiated the writer's point...
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/03/09

    @ItsAllThere: I think you have no sense of humor.
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    And really, what argument isn't improved by rhetorically asking, "Haven't you seen Demolition Man?"
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    What's with the Chico State fetish, Foster? Did you attend the "official party school" of the Cal State college system? (Onetime Sonoma State freshman here.. I hugely enjoyed their theater program and the bucolic surroundings in Rohnert Park but my soccer bully roommate tortured me so much I absconded to UCLA in my sophomore year.)
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/03/09

    @snugbug: Ha. No. I just like saying "Chico." I went to the University of Utah for three semesters and bounced.
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    I'll take Toad's over this.
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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    10/03/09

    @Phyllis Nefler: Ahhh, folks. Phyllis -- very smoothly -- just told us she went to Yale.

    Or is she really just another "plus" fraud?

    Quick quiz: where does the Yale Equestrian Team practice?
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    Image of Phyllis Nefler Phyllis Nefler
    10/03/09

    @smithhimself: I'm allergic to horses. Toad's is more like Ivy Minus thanks to the Q-pac riffraff.
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    Image of RonMwangaguhunga RonMwangaguhunga
    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    Yalie George Bush would have flunked out of St. John's College, Annapolis, MD. Princetonian Brooke Shields would never have obtained a diploma from Marlboro College. Brownie John F. Kennedy, Jr -- bless his soul -- would never have made it out of Deep Springs College. There is a reason why the popular Barron's book rates competitiveness and not the intellectuality of the campus, the intensity of the program and the individualized attention given to the student.

    If those Ivy's want to think that an Ivy diploma bestows intellectuality -- the true aim of the educational process -- and not simply raw competitiveness, they are delusional.

    Competitiveness does not equal intellectuality. That's an error of a market-driven society.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/03/09

    @RonMwangaguhunga: If those Ivy's want to think that an Ivy diploma bestows intellectuality -- the true aim of the educational process -- and not simply raw competitiveness, they are delusional.

    I don't know what to do with this beautiful sentence other than a STRONGLY AGREE. The "best" educations are often found tucked away where the best professors are, and those guys don't give a shit about scholastic fame. I know someone who went to Georgetown (LLM), Emory (JD), Wash U (BA). He said the best, most important, powerful class he ever took was an early credit at Queens College. Go figure.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    10/03/09

    @Foster Kamer: The other day, my nine year-old heard somebody mention Yale and thought it was the funniest name, so she didn't think it real. I explained that Yale and Harvard often get high-profile, famous professors, which causes some people think they're among the best schools.
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    Image of oneninesevenfour oneninesevenfour
    10/04/09

    @RonMwangaguhunga: If those Ivy's want to think that an Ivy diploma bestows intellectuality -- the true aim of the educational process -- and not simply raw competitiveness, they are delusional.

    So Cute! No one is talking about intellectualism. It's getting to the top, making the best connections, getting the best job, and preserving the family name!

    Bookish people are boring anyway. And are best kept at the margins. (And may very well be getting in the way of solidifying power).

    You're either delusional about what an Ivy league education is for, or being knowingly disingenuous. I can't tell, perhaps because I went to public schools.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    Leland Stanford would plotz
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    Image of katekate is squared katekate is squared
    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    UGH. Please don't encourage the Dookies to think they're Ivy League, Anderson.
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    I clicked through to their list of schools and it seems so arbitrary, so foundationless, it has to be nothing more than the alma maters of the club's founders and whomever they were sleeping with at the time.
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    Image of La Mareada La Mareada
    10/03/09

    @Magister: Military academies and Midwestern medical schools, but not Seven Sisters or Little Ivies? Snob Fail.
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    10/03/09

    @Magister: I've got money on two founders being UCLA and NYU grads. They probably never heard of Amherst, Williams, Wellesley, Smith, etc, etc, etc. The whole enterprise reeks of Mensa-level douchebaggery.
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    Image of joec123 joec123
    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    Uh, did you forget maybe that one Ivy League school right there in NYC where you guys are supposed to be? Hello??

    How the fuck could you forget Columbia?
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    Image of SidAndFinancy SidAndFinancy
    10/03/09

    @joec123: Columbia is not in NYC. It's at 116th Street.
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    Image of MasonDeiphobus MasonDeiphobus
    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    Maybe an Ivy League degree would have taught you that you included Brown twice in your list of 8 Ivy's. Typical State University editing fail.
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    Foster Kamer promoted this comment MasonDeiphobus was starred MasonDeiphobus was unstarred
    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/03/09

    @MasonDeiphobus: Truth. Us poorly state-educated cretins forget about Barnard. My bad. Feminism, now!
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    10/03/09

    In reply to Ivy Leaguers Now Networking With Their Peon, Bush-League Bretheren
    You counted Brown twice, and Brown doesn't even count once!

    Ha ha ha! (Maybe it's only funny to me because I just had a liquid lunch at the Yale Club?)
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    Image of Mymoustache Mymoustache
    10/03/09

    @SidAndFinancy: Ha...even the Ivy League has to have a community college!
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    10/03/09

    @SidAndFinancy: Ah, shit. You busted me. It's since been corrected. Bia.
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    10/03/09

    @Foster Kamer: TWO BROWNS! YEEEAH!
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