Questions for the Grammar Police...

[Jerseygirl]

Ganderson, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't you actually get to say the punchline to that joke in real life at Bright?

[Trotsky]

[quote billhoward]Harvard Man: "Say, old fellow. At Harvard they teach us wash our hands after using the washroom."

Yale Man: "At Yale, they teach us not to piss on our hands."[/quote]

I've heard (in person) this joke told with the antagonists being Harvard-MIT and Stanford-Cal.  Anybody else hear it with regional substitutions?

I assume this is like "Sieve."  Endlessly repeated -- original lost in the mists of time.  Peter Abelard (note: ouch) probably made it up at the University of Paris.

[billhoward]

[quote Trotsky][quote billhoward]Harvard Man: "Say, old fellow. At Harvard they teach us wash our hands after using the washroom."

Yale Man: "At Yale, they teach us not to piss on our hands."[/quote]

I've heard (in person) this joke told with the antagonists being Harvard-MIT and Stanford-Cal.  Anybody else hear it with regional substitutions?

I assume this is like "Sieve."  Endlessly repeated -- original lost in the mists of time.  Peter Abelard (note: ouch) probably made it up at the University of Paris.[/quote]
Harvard-Yale would seem most likely because of the history of the upperclass making fun of each other. MIT could be a good possibility as a comeback/putdown. And it surely draws chuckes when it's a Vanderbilt man scolding an Alabama rooter, or Baylor vs. Texas A&M. This one cannot be changed so easily:

[quote Jeopardy answer and question]
A: Harvard, MIT, and BU.
Q: In Boston, name two colleges and a bridge. [/quote]

[Dpperk29]

I heard it as a Navy man telling an Army man that in the navy, they don't pee on there hands.

[jtwcornell91]

Then there's the one about the young man with seven items at the six-items-or-less express lane at a Cambridge supermarket.  The checker asks, "Are you a Harvard student who can't count or an MIT student who can't read?"

[ugarte]

[quote Trotsky][quote billhoward]Harvard Man: "Say, old fellow. At Harvard they teach us wash our hands after using the washroom."

Yale Man: "At Yale, they teach us not to piss on our hands."[/quote]

I've heard (in person) this joke told with the antagonists being Harvard-MIT and Stanford-Cal.  Anybody else hear it with regional substitutions?[/quote]First time I heard it, it was Alabama - Auburn, with Auburn as I-don't-wash-and-I'm-proud.