apparently I'm a bigoted hypocrite (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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> For the past 30 years, I've heard the exact same anecdote with the
exact same
> punchline, but with Harvard in place of Vanderbuilt (and a suitable
location
> substitution for the target of the directions question). There is
every
> indication, that the joke has been around at least another 30 years
before
> that. I would be surprised to find that Stanford and Chicago don't
have their
> own suitably modified versions.
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>      VS-)

No doubt.




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> On 9/28/2012 10:04 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
> > I grew up in Nashville, home of Vanderbilt Univ. In the circles I
ran
> > in, Vandy was thought of as snooty, and was perceived as presenting
> > itself as a Southern Ivy League school full of students from
old-money
> > families. (all stereotypes, and I didn't have anywhere near enough
> > personal knowledge of the school to say that they were based in
> > reality or not). Thus, the following anecdote (which isn't true, but
> > was repeated as if it were): I was at Vandy's campus, looking for
the
> > Sarratt Center (student union building) where a movie was being
shown
> > that I wanted to see. I didn't know the campus, so I asked a student
> > walking by, "Excuse me, can you tell me where the Sarratt Center is
> > at?" "Sir, you are at Vanderbilt University, and at Vanderbilt, we
> > don't end a sentence with a preposition." (Previous sentence
> > pronounced with full Grey Poupon/Thurston Howell III snootiness.)
"Oh.
> > Well then, can you tell me where the Sarratt Center is at, asshole?"
> > When we were juniors in high school, this was really funny.
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