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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Banned Sissy

ra ra ra ra
sissy boom na


    “I want to go to Princeton,” said Amory. “I don’t know why, but I think of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes.”

    Monsignor chuckled.

    “I’m one, you know.”

    “Oh, you’re different — I think of Princeton as being lazy and good-looking and aristocratic — you know, like a spring day. Harvard seems sort of indoors — ”

    “And Yale is November, crisp and energetic,” finished Monsignor.

    “That’s it.”

    They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

    — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Princeton X ‘17, This Side of Paradise
Take a look at that passage. Can you identify the part that was recently deemed too offensive to repeat on an American college campus? Look hard.

Give up? --- Yale Wimps Out Again

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TigerHawk

10 comments:

  1. Boy, I sure could use a coat like that on a day like today. I bet those are really warm. They can keep the Yale sweater. Sissies.

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  2. so...those yale boys have, in fact, become sissies.

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  3. Given the sorry PC state of educa... indoctrination, I'd have to guess 'smoking pipes'.
    Lt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick

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  4. "By wearing a raccoon coat, college football star Red Grange, right, helped to launch a campus craze."
    http://tinyurl.com/y926koc
    RAK

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  5. Given the state of university education today, I would have thought the word "energetic" would cause fits.

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  6. How many raccoons had to die to make those coats? Good thing PETA and other such foolishness wasn't around back then.

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  7. "How many raccoons had to die to make those coats?"

    Not nearly enough.

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  8. Second from the right---is that George Costanza?

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  9. Better to be silent and be thought a sissy than to complain and prove it.

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  10. I'm with the ol' Tailgunner,
    I thought it would'a been pipes.
    Evidently, "sissies" is offensive only to sissies.

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