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Preppie Underground Railroad Reaches Soho

I_Heart_NYC — Tue, 15 May 2007 10:36:35 EDT

In 1986 Dorrian's produced a fine preppie:

http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics5/preppy/index.htm

Makes me wonder what will come out of Bar Martignetti's.

I_Heart_NYC

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2Winners — Mon, 07 May 2007 19:47:21 EDT

I think we should all applaud the Times for once again pointing out how hard it is to be upper class and white. Bouncers giving people the evil eye? God, who knew being preppy was as bad as being an ACTUAL minority?

And speaking of minorities, I love the word choice of the Times. Homogeneously pretty could be the most polite way of saying that the bar is whiter than Amherst.

2Winners

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HarrietTubmanofthePreps — Mon, 07 May 2007 16:08:08 EDT

um... didn't gawker have their holiday party there?

so you're either saying that you're a bunch of self-loathing v.v. tie, needle-point belt, seersucker wearers or you're just pissed that Q and Ralph won't let you in when you don't rent out the whole place?

i'm thinking it's the latter. see you next week when you're waiting outside... i'll be the one skipping the line in the flip flops and casual blazer.

HarrietTubmanofthePreps

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idratherbesailing — Mon, 07 May 2007 13:24:52 EDT

@DonPardoCalrissian: I'm with you on this one, as it is only considered proper for a person's name to appear in print three times - upon birth, marriage, and death.

That said, the Martignetti brothers are greaseballs, and come on, if you have to call yourself a preppy, you really aren't one.

idratherbesailing

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DonPardoCalrissian — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:21:20 EDT

My people, like certain other endangered species, need special conditions only under which breeding can successfully take place. But why on earth the Times would write this story or anyone would agree to talk to the Times about it is beyond me. Normal people could learn a wise lesson from the Druze, Keep your mouth shut at all times. If they can't live with discretion and dignity they deserve to devolve.

Now if you would excuse me, I have to go drink gin in the basement and make lewd phonecalls to my cousin.

DonPardoCalrissian

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sosyourface — Mon, 07 May 2007 10:09:06 EDT

I am really disappointed in this post! You left out the part where she likened Preppies to Pilgrims and how they have an innate need to "colonize". They should have made her spell pilgrim and colonize.

sosyourface

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trigger — Mon, 07 May 2007 09:09:34 EDT

popped-collar-and-flip-flops hot.

trigger

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raincoaster — Mon, 07 May 2007 08:52:56 EDT

@emily: Don't worry, you can always re-post that Smirnoff Raw Tea Partay video. Some of us just luv looking at the preppies.

Seriously, god bless Lisa Birnbach. Twenty-five years later and she is STILL making that damn book pay off.

Also, are you channelling me? I finally just get un-re-banninated and the Slug Alert on this post caught my eye because I just posted about a slug. You've got investment bankers; in Vancouver, we have a different kind of invertebrate. But it's still a scary-small world.

raincoaster

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monoverb — Mon, 07 May 2007 08:38:01 EDT

never understood how the color of ones shirt determines his place in society/sexuality.
"They make that in men's"? another favorite.. "your wife know you are wearing her shirt"? The joys of the trading floor.

fuking jackapes.

monoverb

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the cajun boy — Sun, 06 May 2007 23:41:39 EDT

@Jon: i'm guessing that it's probably limited to a breakfast at baltazar, an autographed copy of "mergers and aquisitions", a ticket to "legally blonde the musical" and a lifetime subscription to radar.

the cajun boy

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Sturgen — Sun, 06 May 2007 19:30:43 EDT

I want to meet a nice boy from a prep school like me... The kind of boy who will call me in search of no strings attached, drunken sex not once, but maybe 3 or 4 times if I'm lucky. Now that would be great.

Sturgen

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Jon — Sun, 06 May 2007 19:09:53 EDT

What kind of severance package are we talking about here?

Jon

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the cajun boy — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:45:54 EDT

@emily: uh oh. we all remember what happened the last time em got crossed.
be expecting another edition of "surprise layoffs", this time titled "surprise layoffs, gawker weekend staff edition."

the cajun boy

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Emily Gould — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:37:27 EDT

"But needless to say, we're out of our depths here -- you'll have to wait for the Gawker weekday staff to make sense of it all." Here is how I am making sense of this trespass. A) You sucked this dry. Fuck you, motherfuckers! B)Oh, wait. Apparently I don't have to read Sunday Styles anymore. Thank you, motherfuckers!

Emily Gould

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swatsucks — Sun, 06 May 2007 18:27:52 EDT

Okay - Haverford is ranked #9 by USNews. Above Vassar, Weslayan, etc. Acceptance rate = 25%. 97% in the top 10% of their high school.

Trinity is ranked 30th. Twenty spots behind Haverford. Their acceptance rate? 45%. 52% in the top 10% of their high school.

Swarthmore on the other hand...

swatsucks

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Flashman — Sun, 06 May 2007 17:53:04 EDT

The pink shirt is surely the burka of the preppy male

Flashman

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xoxoANP — Sun, 06 May 2007 17:45:22 EDT

and still insist that Trinity and Haverford are prestigious colleges.

Oh, Gawker, you just made me wet myself with glee.

xoxoANP

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rufus — Sun, 06 May 2007 16:48:44 EDT

At least Whit Stillman has a subject for his next movie, Metropolitan 2007: The ReEntitling.

rufus

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preppylouche — Sun, 06 May 2007 16:48:43 EDT

On the one hand, I find this repugnant, because I value achievement over appearance. On the other hand, that's only because it seemed like the easiest way to not have to spend time with people who went to Trinity or Haverford.

preppylouche

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Phyllis Nefler — Sun, 06 May 2007 16:25:07 EDT

@Ha Ha Sound: Give them a break! They have to associate with those people 100+ hours a week at the workplace! Do you know how hard it is to have to deal with people who didn't go to Windridge with your cousin Trip?

Phyllis Nefler

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Ha Ha Sound — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:59:29 EDT

Thank God preppy investment bankers have a place where they can be segregated from the rest of the city. Imagine if they had to hang out with minorities or Jews... chaos would ensue.

Ha Ha Sound

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VoxPopuli — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:35:42 EDT

Yeah, hooking up multiple times is just so much classier than hooking up once.
Should we really be allowing these people to breed at all?

VoxPopuli

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gaycurmudgeon — Sun, 06 May 2007 15:30:54 EDT

You called it back in December. Douchebag Central has a new name: Bar Martignetti.

gaycurmudgeon

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PikachuMcHeidegger — Sun, 06 May 2007 14:44:42 EDT

"Their foot shall slide in due time."

What? It's Sunday. Like I'm the only one who thought of Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

PikachuMcHeidegger

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Phyllis Nefler — Sun, 06 May 2007 14:38:58 EDT

@vineyard85: Don't worry, they made sure to interview Lisa Birnbach for the article.

Also, that better be Vineyard as in Vines, or else you're out on the sidewalk with Q.

Phyllis Nefler

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vineyard85 — Sun, 06 May 2007 13:56:16 EDT

This is one for the Preppy Handbook.

vineyard85

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mightymouse — Sun, 06 May 2007 13:33:27 EDT

In a nutshell:
"You don't meet girls here you want to hook up with once," he said. "You meet girls here you want to hook up with multiple times."

vs.

"Women come here looking for their future husbands."

I'm guessing Ms. Crawford is gonna lose some battles, but eventually win the war. Good for her!

mightymouse

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sarrible — Sun, 06 May 2007 13:19:07 EDT

Nice job, NYT. "Sinese"? The man has his own slightly-New York-based TV show and they couldn't spell his name right?

sarrible

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HoHoKennedy — Sun, 06 May 2007 13:15:20 EDT

@mightymouse:

Er, So this like where Rose McGowan hangs out.

HoHoKennedy

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AlexandraDuPont — Sun, 06 May 2007 13:11:27 EDT

Mr. Sinese, handsome if one considers Leonard "Bones" McCoy handsome ...

AlexandraDuPont

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Cookie Guggleman — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:50:02 EDT

Didn't this already happen in 1982?

Cookie Guggleman

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Diglett — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:43:10 EDT

I keep trying to convince my boyfriend that I went to college with several decent humans, but I'm starting to think the argument is really not worth making anymore. Fucking Ivy Club.

Diglett

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dorincourt — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:26:43 EDT

Westport? Is for the Martha Stewarts of the world, i.e. those desperately trying to expunge New Jersey and/or Eastern European backgrounds with seasonal floral arrangements and slate-floored mud rooms. Anyone at Netti's would rather scuff their Tod's than be associated with Westport. New Canaan, on the other hand...

dorincourt

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Sideline Reporter — Sun, 06 May 2007 12:07:41 EDT

It can all be traced back to the Ivy Club. Both Princetonians mentioned in the article were officers at that venerable den of iniquity, although one went by a less citrus-enhanced name.

Sideline Reporter

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SayHeyJay — Sun, 06 May 2007 11:42:52 EDT

Uhh... Westport?

SayHeyJay

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mightymouse — Sun, 06 May 2007 10:56:50 EDT

Now I know where to go to find me a woman of high caliber.

mightymouse