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The super-elite East Coast prep schools that have been around forever: Andover, Exeter, Hotchkiss, Groton, St. Mark's, St. Paul's, Middlesex...
Dreg: Glory, Your Most Fresh-And-Cleanness. It's only a matter of time-- Glory: Ugh, everything always takes time! What about my time? Does anyone appreciate I'm on a schedule here?! Tick tock, Dreg! Tick freakin' tock!
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Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
megan walker - Jul 27, 2008 4:42:43 pm PDT #9799 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Jesse - Jul 27, 2008 4:46:17 pm PDT #9800 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Huh. I've never heard of that.
megan walker - Jul 27, 2008 4:49:51 pm PDT #9801 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I'm sure it's only important to a small group of aging prepsters.
Jesse - Jul 27, 2008 4:56:02 pm PDT #9802 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And googling leads me to believe the list was made by my boy Digby Baltzell!
megan walker - Jul 27, 2008 4:57:24 pm PDT #9803 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
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Jesse - Jul 27, 2008 4:59:33 pm PDT #9804 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
He coined the term WASP, has written a lot about American elite culture and Philadelphia and etc. He was a guest speaker to one of my undergrad classes, and since he had just written a book about tennis, that is what he spoke on. Note: the class was not about tennis, or sports in any way. He was just a really great, impressive, dapper, dotty old guy.
Edited for factual and grammatical accuracy.
megan walker - Jul 27, 2008 5:00:53 pm PDT #9805 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
He coined the term WASP.
Oh, that would make sense.
Jesse - Jul 27, 2008 5:03:40 pm PDT #9806 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Although, in his NYTimes obit, his widow said he didn't. But he sure talked about them a lot!
Jesse - Jul 27, 2008 5:14:04 pm PDT #9807 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
And just because I'm feeling reminiscent, my real old-man Philadelphia idol was always Ed Bacon.
megan walker - Jul 27, 2008 5:15:36 pm PDT #9808 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Hah! He prepped at St. Paul's. That explains so much. I think that place only aggravated my sister's issues.