apparently I'm a bigoted hypocrite (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Alice Faber]

I have heard versions of this with B representing Harvard, Yale, and
Princeton (at least); I'm not sure about Northwestern and UT (when I was
in grad school, UT claimed, only semi-facetiously, to be the Harvard of
the Southwest).

On 9/28/12 11:20 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> A variant from '53:
>
> Two college guys are in a restroom, having a leak. When they finish, A
> stops to wash his hands. B proceeds to the the door.
>
> A. "At Yale, one is instructed to wash one's hands after one has urinated."
>
> B. "At Harvard, we know better than to piss on our hands."
>
> All things considered, you'd expect that permutations of this joke
> would be told everywhere. But, IME, it's a hapax told to me by a
> Harvard man.
>
> --
> -Wilson
> -----
> All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
> to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> -Mark Twain
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> The joke appears in Terry Southern's oft-reprinted essay, "Twirling at Ole
>> Miss" (Esquire, February, 1963).
>>
>> As I recall it, "Southern" appears in Oxford looking for directions to the
>> university.  He sees a bunch of old guys whittlin'.  Not wanting them to
>> realize he's a pointy-headed Yankee journalist, he deliberately reverts to
>> the rural speech of his Texas youth and asks, "Whur the school?"
>>
>> The unfriendly reply is, "Reckon you mean, 'Whur the school _at_,
>> stranger!'"
>>
>> JL
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
>> Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
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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.
>>>>
>>>>       VS-)
>>>
>>> No doubt.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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