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sluggo
10/13/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
She's a walking Cole Porter song.
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DavidWatts
10/11/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
The golden light of a Massachusetts autumn shone through the double-paned glass of Lady Nooningtonshire's penthouse hotel room. A lipstick-stained Pall Mall smoldered in a crystal ash tray, threading the room with its hazy tendrils.

Lady Noonington looked up from her Chivas and Cherry Mountain Dew. The clock on top of the TV playing C-Span and "Ni Hao, Kai Lan" in picture-in-picture read 2:45. Only 15 minutes until class. No time to write a plebeian "syllabus." She would have a few Percocet, and simply be Noonan. So it goes.
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Ima_letchu_finish
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
I like her writing and she has a job. More than I can say for most of the students in her class upon graduation.
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Foster Kamer
10/10/09

@Ima_letchu_finish: Peggy?!
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raincoaster
10/11/09

@Ima_letchu_finish: Yes, they'll probably be unemployable and thoroughly sick of her writing by then.
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Novaload
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
Did she almost cut her hair?
Did it happen just the other day?
Was it getting kind of long?
Could she have said it was in the way?
But she didn't, and she wonders why...
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LeeroySpitzer
10/10/09

@Novaload: my former psychologist once told me this song embodies me. I know I shouldn't mention it, but his name was Dick Buttes. I always told him he should go by Richard. My father would say, "At least it wasn't Buttes Dicks."
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Novaload
10/10/09

@LeeroySpitzer: Don't tell anybody, but I still sing this song to myself. Perfect song, perfectly song.
Must be because I had the flu for Christmas.
And I'm not feeling up to par.

I had a Psych professor who did nothing but pick his nose during office hours. Now I think it was really a brilliant ploy to keep those student ramblings short. Amazing, how quickly you run out of things to say when you're sitting across from an enthusiastic nose-picker. I kinda hated myself for not telling him off about that.
I feel like I owe it to someone.
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unclevanya
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”

She could give Famous Amos a run for his money in the gourmet cookie market, if she printed one of her pearls of wisdom on the back of each bag.
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PontiusPirate
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
I think there has been some mistake here. The above quotes are actually all snippets from the new Rage Against the Machine album.
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pony_express
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
"One should wear mascara when one can."-- She is right, one really should.
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seyswho
10/10/09

@pony_express: And really, when can't one?
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pony_express
10/10/09

@seyswho: What with the advent of the waterproof, we feel to not do so is pure indolence.
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yourfriendandneighbor
10/10/09

@pony_express: i know i always do.
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Phyllis Nefler
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
I'm so jealous that I can't attend this class. Luv u Peggles. You talk to me in a "sing-song, condescending voice" and I'll just turn on NPR.
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mattchew03
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
This just made my day. I sincerely hope Peggy Noonan quotes become some sort of feature.
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OliversArmy
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
"My best advice to you is some that my brother Danny received the very year that Ronald Reagan was elected president...just be the ball. Be the ball. Be. The. Ball."
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TheBusinessGuy
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
Looking at the picture, I keep thinking "My God, Mrs. Cleaver is hitting the bottle again."
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Foster Kamer
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
For the record, that last one is "Master Crab." Wikipedia's amazing.
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snugbug
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
Contextualizing Peg's quotes with emoticons bumped this post up into LOL stratosphere. It's as delicious as a bacon donut and I just want to keep nom-nom-nom-ing on it. Foster is officially shuffling toward Gawker Hall of Fame territory at this point. Ideas, people. IDEAS! As a wise old person (me) once said: "Ideas are worth millions."
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Moff
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
"Noonan?"

"No, Noonan."

"Noonan?"

"No, no -- Noooonan."
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abcohn
10/10/09

In reply to Peggy Noonan, Teaching at Harvard: “You Have To Let Your Freak Flag Fly.”
From: http://www.iop.harvard.edu/Programs/Fellows-Study-Groups/Fall-2009-Study-Groups

"IOP Study Groups are designed and geared towards students. They are meant to be small, off-the-record discussion groups. Study Groups are open to the public... In keeping with IOP study group tradition, all study groups are off-the-record. No reporting on the study group is permitted."
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Bottle-Of-Smoke
10/10/09

@abcohn: Egads! There's a leak in the IOP study group! Heads will roll for this.
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