Colgate Freshman Fun

[ebilmes]

I think the first time I ever heard "sieve" at a hockey game was freshman year of high school. If we hadn't been discussing that particular word for some reason the day before in an English class, I wouldn't have know what it meant. However, I would hope that college students anywhere would know how to spell and understand the word.

[Trotsky]

[quote LynahFaithfulS][quote min]
I believe that the University of Chicago has the ugliest people. ::nut::
http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2006/01/13/collegecutenesscom_f.php[/quote]

wow. that is an unbelievably offensive article. i understand what they are trying to get at, but honestly...
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It's funny if you begin with the assumption that the entire issue is absurd, the authors realize this, and they are making a point in parody.  If you begin with the assumption that this is an untouchably radioactive subject which admits of no humor at all, then, naturally, it will not amuse.

(i.e., Q. How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?  A.  That's not funny.)

Whatever the perspective, the best line in the entire article, however, is: "They are no longer together."

[LynahFaithfulS]

[quote imafrshmn] When you don't spend much of your life baking food in the kitchen, it's not necessarily something that's part of your vocabulary.[/quote]

i know the word from playing with a sieve in the sandbox

(preemptive comment: it's true, it wasn't meant for the sandbox...it was labeled as a toy for the beach)


i really don't mean to be insulting anyone, i just didn't think it was that uncommon a word...apparently i was wrong

[billhoward]

All males (all females, too, actually) should learn to do laundry and cook while in high school.

a) so you don't do your first load of wash at Cornell with hot water, soap, and chlorine bleach while filling the laundry tub with your a) white underwear and b) new red Cornell T-shirts. Artists learn about additive and subtractive colors ... but red and white laundry combines to make pink laundry.

b1) you will impress your girlfriends with your ability to cook. It's their own damn fault if they have faulty logic circuits and believe, "He cooked for me now ... he's not a bad cook ... [faulty leap:] he'll cook after we're living together / married and that's awesome."
b2) at some point you will learn that the intentionally leaky thing into which you pour cooked pasta (not canned ravioli) is called a colander or sieve.

[Rich S]

I'm with you on this one.

I often teach middle school kids plus coach peewees and they think a lot of what they say is so "cool".  And some of it is.

But a lot isn't.

HS kids think they invented EVERYTHING! :-D

[Molly]

I feel that it is somewhat reasonable not to know what a sieve is--after all, most people use the word colander when referring to the thing with which they drain pasta.  If we hadn't read Nectar in a Sieve in high school, I doubt I would have known the meaning of the word because it doesn't seem to be a commonly used word (outside of hockey, of course).

It's like asking someone to dice up an aubergine--how many would know which vegetable to grab?

[Trotsky]

I thought "aubergine" was the hardware store that used to advertise between periods.

[ugarte]

[quote Molly]It's like asking someone to dice up an aubergine--how many would know which vegetable to grab?[/quote]Depends. What continent did they grow up on?

[jtwcornell91]

[quote ugarte][quote Molly]It's like asking someone to dice up an aubergine--how many would know which vegetable to grab?[/quote]Depends. What continent did they grow up on?[/quote]
Can I get that garnished with some rocket?

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Molly]It's like asking someone to dice up an aubergine--how many would know which vegetable to grab?[/quote]

A couple of years ago in Berlin we were phone in a pizza order, and the Austrian placing the call ordered "eine Pizza mit Melanzane"; the guy taking the order was confused, so so she clarified: "Oh, Entschuldigung.  Auberginen."

[Beeeej]

[quote jtwcornell91][quote Molly]It's like asking someone to dice up an aubergine--how many would know which vegetable to grab?[/quote]

A couple of years ago in Berlin we were phone in a pizza order, and the Austrian placing the call ordered "eine Pizza mit Melanzane"; the guy taking the order was confused, so so she clarified: "Oh, Entschuldigung.  Auberginen."[/quote]

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

Beeeej

[jtwcornell91]

[quote Beeeej][quote jtwcornell91][quote Molly]It's like asking someone to dice up an aubergine--how many would know which vegetable to grab?[/quote]

A couple of years ago in Berlin we were phone in a pizza order, and the Austrian placing the call ordered "eine Pizza mit Melanzane"; the guy taking the order was confused, so so she clarified: "Oh, Entschuldigung.  Auberginen."[/quote]

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!

Beeeej[/quote]

Yes, I was amused to learn that just as the Swiss pepper their German with French words, the Austrians use Italian loan words.

Also,

STOP PUTTING MATT AT THE END OF YOUR POSTS!!! :-( :-( :-(

[Trotsky]

[quote Beeeej]Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
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;-)

[RichH]

[quote Trotsky][quote Beeeej]Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
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;-)[/quote]

Typical.  ::rolleyes::

[jtwcornell91]

[quote RichH][quote Trotsky][quote Beeeej]Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
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;-)[/quote]

Typical.  ::rolleyes::[/quote]

Jerk.