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[Mark A. Mandel]

Duane Campbell <dcamp at CHILITECH.NET> writes:
    >>>>>

When asked where I went to college (not a frequent question), I always say
New Haven. That is at least partly obfuscation. In a small town filled with
Penn State flags on Saturdays, attendance at an elite Ivy is hardly a plus.
Besides, to my ear the monosyllabic Yale lands with a thud. (As further
cover, I have a Nittaney Lion shrine in my back yard.)

 <<<<<

I mischievously enjoy creating brief confusion by telling people quite
truthfully that I went to college in Annapolis, before explaining that it
was St. John's College, not the Naval Academy, that I attended.

-- Mark
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]

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