Byerly

You're straining now, in your usual manner.

jenesaispas

Oh yeah, well, my overall greatness far surpasses and exceeds the collective greatness of both Harvard and Yale.

In addition to every other school that's ever existed, currently exists, or will ever exist.

Combined, multiplied by 180/pi, AND raised to the infinite power.

Na na na na boo boo.

*sticks tongue out*

Keynes1105

Haha, you guys should quit while you're ahead or else Byerly will tear everyone apart.

crimsonbulldog

true... next he'll break out the dreaded smuckers analogy!

eternity_hope2005

A man named Byerly was hired by a supermarket and reported for his first day of work. The manager greeted him with a warm handshake and a smile, gave him a broom and said, " Byerly, Your first job will be to sweep out the store."

"But I'm a college graduate," Byerly replied indignantly.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know that," said the manager. "Here, give me the broom -- I'll show you how."

Social_Pariah

haha good job Byerly of perpetuating the idea of Harvard being full of elitist pricks with that attitude of yours. I hope your attitude isn't reflective of most Harvard students.

Byerly

"Elitist", Social_Pariah? Are you referring to my preference for Super Chunk Skippy's over creamy Jiff?

To each his own, I say. I'm all for peanut butter diversity at Harvard and elsewhere.

My only point is that a man so narrow in his prejudices as to refuse to consider a school where Super Chunk is available would not be happy in the egalitarian Harvard environment, and should probably look elsewhere.

zephyr151

Byerly, chunky peanut butter has been commonly associated with Satan. Have you been consorting with the devil? Did Harvard football sell its soul so it could go 10-0? Who knows.

zephyr151

"As for your "poll" of the great unwashed ...

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Keep in mind that NYU was named in the PR "poll" as the "dream school" for most applicants. What matters is what the elite eat, and the elite eat Skippy Super Chunk. Its probably better for you to find this out now, in order to avoid disappointment: you're clearly not Harvard material."

Byerly, in most schools they teach you this thing called "ad hominem attacks" and why they're bad. I suppose, at Harvard, they don't. Another missing piece to a flawed school, and its representative's deeply flawed arguments.

zephyr151

Eternity, I think he;s being somewhat facetious. Taking him at face value all the time only goads his pretension to greater lengths.

eternity_hope2005

Byerly,

Please stop with all the fancy rhetoric because in the end, you've only managed to contradict yourself. In your most recent post, you said that "I'm all for peanut butter diversity at Harvard and elsewhere." If this was true, why would have posted earlier that "What matters is what the elite eat, and the elite eat Skippy Super Chunk."

Quote: ".........it will never be as good or as prestigeous as Skippy's Super Chunk - preferred far and away by America's elite."

Quote: "What matters is what the elite eat, and the elite eat Skippy Super Chunk. Its probably better for you to find this out now, in order to avoid disappointment: you're clearly not Harvard material."

The above quotes show that you’re implying that Harvard students are all elite, prestigious people who clearly prefer Skippy's Super Chunky P.B. This doesn't show your beliefs to be agreement with what you call "egalitarian Harvard environment" - another contradiction in your last post.

Byerly, you partially represent Harvard on cc - especially due to the fact that your such a prolific writer on the Harvard forum.

Do say something Byerly...I would hate to see the reputation of Harvard bow down to Yale on cc because our Harvard student's facetious nature is helpless to exclude contradiction.

conwoman

hahaha this thread is hilarious

Byerly

Consistency, eternity_hope, is the hobgoblin of small minds. A diverse environment means that various views are celebrated; even as one school could turn out a John Roberts and a Larry Tribe, so, too could those who prefer creamy peanut buttter .... or, indeed, do not like peanut butter at all (!) ... exist alongside the masters of the universe: the Skippy Super Chunk people.

What you must constantly remember is that everyone at Harvard is among the very best, the most talented, the smartest, about *something*. It keeps you humble. But on the other hand, you learn to have confidence in your own abilities and beliefs. If you do not have such confidence, you will not survive in the rarified atmosphere of Cambridge. And so it is with Skippy Super Chunk.

In a world where the mediocre often drives out the good, amid the decline of standards and the collapse of creeds, where peanut butter sales are increasingly dominated by the bland. creamy Jiffs, etc., there are those (well represented at Harvard, I sam proud to say), who hold to the core values of Western Civilization ..... and yes, I mean those who understand, appreciate and proclaim the ultimate superiority of Super Chunk.

eternity_hope2005

Byerly,

Once again, your logic is severely flawed.

MY EXPLANATION:

Don't ramble on about "consistency" with me when the word you should really be paying attention to is "evolution". What you need to understand with that "elite", Harvard mind of yours is that evolution even applies to the very topic of viscosity regarding the type of peanut butter being produced.

Peanut Butter, when initially made, couldn't be ground with the sharpest of razors - the machines were simply not as advanced as today - as a result of which the end consequence of the peanut butter was that of a tough, highly viscous material known as the Chunky Peanut Butter.

When I eat chunky peanut butter; I must force my teeth to sink through that tough, thick medium. It ends up being more of a work out for my jaw than an enjoyable and tasty food experience. The chunky peanut butter evolved to the creamy kind (thank heavens) since its discovery. Why has the Peanut Butter evolved? Evolution is a result of adaptation stemming from the beneficial sources of change itself. It is what makes something better suited in nature (in our example, taste) to its surroundings (in our case, the manufacturers).

Today, I can sit back and enjoy the taste of creamy Peanut Butter. I can even gulp the combination of P.B. and jelly packed into two slices of bread itself. The creamy P.B. is something my teeth can cut through with relative ease followed a quick "gulp" along with the bread and jelly leaving behind nothing less than a tasty aftermath - a far cry from cutting through the layers of the Chunky Peanut Butter which only leaves behind an overworked jaw and the ever increasing risk of cholesterol. And yes, creamy peanut butter is even healthier than chunky peanut butter. This of course is probably the result of a food oil switch within the recipe - further evolution a result of the hard work of people who attempted to cut down the cholesterol levels in the thick muck of butter.

Indeed, the evolution of the P.B. is - for the most part - the result of the mechanical engineers who devised better machine grinders and mixers so we can make that butter creamier and splice in the taste more efficiently with the other ingredients.

So go on and brag to me about your "elite" Harvard students who are the "best" because as far peanut butter is concerned, the typical mechanical engineer is someone who is clearly more deserving of respect than your "elite" Harvard student.

So for your own sake, drop the Peanut Butter analogy. Use something else to show those Yalies that Harvard is indeed better.

Do say something Byerly........

wingardiumLeviosa

Chunky PB gets stuck in between my teeth and is kind of a nuisance.