<p>mmaah–it’s about the only trick I know besides those infernal smiley faces that I myself have grown to hate but can’t resist using. </p>
<p>(Okay, fine, there’s also the “uses too damn many smiley faces in their posts” group)</p>
<p>you type the word “quote” in brackets. Then you insert your text. Then you type “/quote” again in brackets. I can’t put the brackets in above or they will disappear into the gray box, but of course I mean the [ and the ] marks.</p>
<p>How about the early morning coffee addict catching up on American news? If anything happens, hear it first on CC! 
I am also a no lifer, not alone mofs, and all the rest.</p>
<p>Patient:</p>
<p>You got it! </p>
<p>After grandmama gave a bright yellow plastic pineapple topped with green plastic leaves to S (supposed to be a cup with top), which, apparently S displays prominently in suite (even got some glue to glue the top back to the pineapple after it had been inadvertently knocked off by roomie) I do not dare aspire to the (Distance) Dorm Room Interior Design community. Martha Stewart would blanch.</p>
<p>Which reminds me of another category:
Domestic goddesses: send homemade cookies to their college kids, thus contributing to the freshman 15. Come to CC to ask how to send said cookies.</p>
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A little late, but I’ll drink to that.</p>
<p>Despite my unimpressive post tally, I think I definitely belong in the “Parents with no life” group. I spend most of my time in the cafe, where posting won’t increase your tally :(. I think I virtually stand alone in the “Most Frequently User of Quotation Marks” category—God help me, it’s a sickness…:o </p>
<p>I’ve thought of a few others that I’ll do my best to stay out of:</p>
<p>The “I’m Your Moral Superior” group.</p>
<p>The “I’m Your Intellectual Superior” group.
(Thankfully, both of these groups seem reletively few in number).</p>
<p>The “Kool-Aid Drinkers for the Far Left”, closely allied with the “Bush Should Be Impeached/Prosecuted” camp.</p>
<p>The “Kool-Aid Drinkers for the Far Right”, closely allied with the “Bush Can Do No Wrong/We Were Right to Invade Iraq” camp.</p>
<p>“The CC oracles are Carolyn and Xiggi. I’m just a one-person Greek chorus, kalespera.”</p>
<p>No, no. We covered that once before:</p>
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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=169244[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=169244</a></p>
<p>In my next life I might wish to be:</p>
<p>Oracle of Math Prodigies
Oracle of Music Prodigies
Oracle of Musical Theatre Prodigies
Oracle of Recruited Athletes Who Get October (!) Letters from Ivies
Oracle of 4.0 GPA/ 1600 SAT students Who Also Sing and Cure Eczema</p>
<p>As it is, I am trying to “love the slackers I have”… who get non-homemade gourmet cookies from a bakery delivered to them but never pick them up.</p>
<p>Temperance Union. Gotta love it.</p>
<p>“Temperance Union. Gotta love it.”</p>
<p>Then buy the debut album:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.temperanceunion.co.uk/[/url]”>http://www.temperanceunion.co.uk/</a></p>
<p>dear patient:
I’ve done it!
Seems like a whole new archetypal level to have mastered this. I am not ready yet for the smiley faces but this makes me feel grandly competent</p>
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<p>But where else can you get interesting topics of conversation like cats with drooping tails and George Foreman grills–all within the same day?</p>
<p>Let’s not forget the ever expanding “Rodeo and Ballet Roundup”</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=236347[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=236347</a></p>
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Well, it may be a subgroup for DRID certifcate-ees, but it is a master group for the Mattress Topper Analysts, much loved by the bedding industry which can now charge upwards of $80 for what I used to buy for $9.99.</p>
<p>A leathal subgroup of SAZ:</p>
<p>Domentic Goddess Service Academy Moms Who Bake Cookies For Everyone</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=209286[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=209286</a></p>
<p>EVERYONE? They bake for everyone? Give me their names so my son can get on their list, and I don’t have to bake anymore d***ed cookies!</p>
<p>From the Admissions threads: Students who desperately want to be assured that it’s OK to lie on their applications.</p>
<p>Xiggi:</p>
<p>ROTFL!</p>
<p>LFWB Dad, I like the Domentic Goddesses label, it neatly combines “domestic” and “demented”, which is what one should be to do so much baking!</p>
<p>I don’t know if the amalgamated list includes the “CC Bespoke Tailors: Our motto is ‘It’s All About Fit.’”</p>
<p>We could break down the cafe into subgroups with links…bed, bath and beyond.</p>
<p>
This one gets my vote as Most Clever!</p>
<p>And, Berurah, CC just wouldn’t be the same without your warmth and kindness. So in your honor…</p>
<p>!!!
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<p>(That’s all the emoticons I know!)</p>
<p>How about “Geographic Representation” for all those whose screen names reflect their views? Bandits from Texas, UC parents, overseas perspective, lobs I toss in every once in a while providing the “MAINE” view of the world…certainly I enjoy the hints of location provided “bay view area” “outside nyc” because it adds much wider perspective to any subject being discussed…forum or cafe threads…</p>
<p>or those of us who, “Having Learned a Foreign Language” (college admissions speak) visit so we can speak it…occasionally we get to dabble in the language with friends whose children are HS juniors or HS seniors on the sidelines at games, or at parties, but, most of our linguistic practice takes place here? </p>
<p>and finally those posters who, like Norm, enjoy a “Place Where Everyone Knows Your Name” … I always find it fun when a poster starts to take on a “personality” and become “real” to me, or when I inadvertently realize that someone who seemed so “normal” turns out to be a crazed politician or temperance advocate…or whatever the bone is they constantly chew on…</p>
<p>
I think the proper archetypal classification for us is “Crossfire Wannabes.”</p>