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OMG, <strong><em>ROFLMAO</em></strong>!!! At first when I saw this I thought I had somehow gotten up during the night and posted in my sleep!! ;)</p>
<p>and…THANKS! {{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}!!!</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
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<p>Doe the Duke Lacrosse thread in the cafe belong to Bed, Bath, or Beyond?
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<p>I’m bad…</p>
<p>bed bath and beyond. exceedingly clever o’seas and to be applauded.</p>
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<p>mmaah…you’re welcome. Don’t get into the smiley faces. I think you lose an IQ point per face. (but then you gain them back when you complete an entire post without one).</p>
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<p>That makes you seem much less scary…if all those political rants are just really auditions for a TV role! (trying to resist smiley face here)</p>
<p>Just curious—Twinklehooves, the rodeo/ballet poster–was all that on the up and up? Or did I get punk’d?</p>
<p>My guess is that its on the up and up. Ellensburg, WA is big ranch country and barrell racing is huge for girls out there. No one would think twice of a girl riding horses, jumping etc. in the East and doing ballet.</p>
<p>So, I guess rodeo riding shouldn’t be that different.</p>
<p>But if its a bullrider wanting to do Demi-pliés, I think our chains are being yanked.</p>
<p>I thought of another subgroup. “Ragin’ Asians” – asian kids griping about how strict their parents are … Some of the funniest threads on CC have had this theme.</p>
<p>Also how about the “Teeter Totter Kids”-- those who have lists containing both Ivies and bottom tier Us-- but nothing in the middle.</p>
<p>I will also claim membership in “My athlete is not that dumb”-- LOL!</p>
<p>SBMom…welcome to the group!! Now we need to start thinking about organizing parties (remember the Party thread from a year or two ago? I am still depressed from Cheers announcing none of us were invited to her super-cool party in Paradise 
) by archetypes. Ours of course will be at the next Olympics.</p>
<p>SBmom:</p>
<p>The “You know you’re Asian when…” thread was followed by the “You know you’re Jewish when…” Well, S’s friend is half-Jewish, half Asian!</p>
<p>Thanks to the OP. This feels like going to confession and getting absolved.</p>
<p>LOL, Soozie! Apparently, it’s about all three.</p>
<p>I love this thread. Now, time to poke fun at myself:
-Vegetarian conservatives (subgroup: “People who order no-meat dishes at Federalist Society events and know how ridiculous they sound.”)
-My alma mater is NOT a safety school!
-In fact, it’s a really good school that does not reject people who are “too good,” and everyone really loves their experience
-You’re a freshman in college, stop asking if you’re going to get into Harvard Law and work at Cravath (because you really won’t want to go to law school in four years anyway)
-Take a gap year between college and grad school, you passion-less weenie*
-The fact that I know quantum mechanics does not mean that I can’t go to law school, but…
-Law schools are more numbers-oriented than you can imagine, which is why you shouldn’t do enigneering if you want to go - no, adcoms don’t give a flying LSAT whether or not your major was really hard. (Sakky being the ultimate archetype for this)</p>
<p>*not our beloved Weenie the poster</p>
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I guess I count in that chorus. :)</p>
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<p>Mine was. My D applied to my alma mater, but it was literally her dead last place safety school.</p>
<p>There’s also the “I couldn’t get into my alma mater these days” types floating around. ;)</p>
<p>This is the CC archetype that brings out the best in all of us:</p>
<p>“Parent of genius/superstar kid who has no clue about college admissions process”</p>
<p>Oh, audiophile… it’s a good thing you identified that archetype. No way will they ever self-identify. :D</p>
<p>Oh man! You guys are missing the most important archtypes. (Come on, I’ll give you a hint! Think $ $ $ $ ) The “I’m-smart-so-I’m-sure-that-someone-wants-to-give-me-lots-of-money; now-tell-me-how-I-can-get-a-full-ride-to-my-dream-school” group. And then there’s the “Fit-is-fine-but-it’s-the-finances-I’m-worried-about” group. ;)<br>
Just in case you wonder, I’m definitely in group number two…along with a zillion other subgroups already mentioned; Mothers of Boys, I can’t believe we’re going to do this again with number 2 kid…etc. </p>
<p>Oooo… I just thought of another archetype; the “It’s-worth-it-for-me-to-take-out-over-$100,000-in-student-loans to-attend-my-dream-school,-right?” group! :)</p>
<p>And I know I’ve started a new group - it’s “Mothers of Boys WITHOUT any academic passions” (They are the boys playing poker and watching football and wondering if maybe, just maybe, they should leave the couch to join one EC before they graduate…)</p>
<p>And then there are the students who only hang out in the parents forums. Maybe they are seeking attention and love from the cc parents. Yeah, that’s it.</p>
<p>It’s weird that some of us parents are still here, but I would be worried if my son (a junior in college) was still posting routinely. I would feel badly that he wasn’t enjoying the real college experience, and was maybe too involved with the virtual one!! Or if he was posting too often, maybe he wasn’t in the right fit college after all…</p>
<p>Soozie,</p>
<p>In the Bed, Bath and Beyond department, I’d like to point out that in the Duke Lacrosse thread, there was no mention of bed or bedsheets, but of towels.</p>
<p>Other archetypes: The year-round flip-floppers (usually from CA) and the what kinds of boots should I get (usually posted in July-August)</p>
<p>Those of us who are trying to let our kids have their own lives.
We hang here so we don’t email them to death!</p>