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Others may feel differently but all of those folks you mentioned are still capable of harming Confidentialia by their very public actions. Some more public than others. :eek: I believe we might be better off concentrating on folks that are no longer relevant but are still famous and liked by some tiny weird section of society. …Hmmmm?..</p>
<p>O.K… Those 4 will do just fine afterall. My mistake.</p>
<p>Folks , Ross Perot a fellow Texan INSISTS upon making a suggestion. I apologize in advance for this intrusion but I owe him some money. </p>
<p>O.K. Here’s one more idea, people. It’s a little out there but follow along with me, America. We try for the two most well-financed segments of our society and we create a major program, giant best ever program with it’s own institute that appeals to the second most well-financed group in America but , and here’s the key-are ya still with me, America? it’s run by a darling of the first best most well financed group. </p>
<p>Are ya, getting there with me America? Is the picture coming in focus? The Confidentialia College Institute for the Study of Internet Porn, Poker and Other Vices , headed by …Newt Gingrich. Now there’s a pretty picture you can share with your Uncle Ruth.</p>
<p>You see it now ,don’t you? Newt’s just lost his job as the night shift greeter at a Wal-Mart in Doraville,Ga.and he’d probably jump at the chance. </p>
<p>Sorry. I don’t know how he got in here.</p>
<p>A little late to the dorm discussion, but how about treehouses?</p>
<p>As to celebrity endorsements, should we look to all those fine folks who have appeared on “The Surreal World”?</p>
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While unable to stamp approved on the the idea of treehouses at this time (as I actually have no power and no stamp) I am prepared to tell you that is “likely” that the idea of treehouses will be approved at Regular Decision time.</p>
<p>Aaahh, so THAT really was Newt we saw at Walmart’s last time we were in Atlanta?! Who’da thunk it?
The treehouses are being built as we speak.
Can we have a planning retreat on the beach? Isn’t it time to “shape next year’s class”?</p>
<p>Hey, Curmudgeon, Ross P. may be onto something. No reason we shouldn’t pursue “students with money” as a priority in our selection process. Since we have no scholarship $$ to offer and no income as yet, why not go for the big bucks?? Get that cashflow moving…</p>
<p>In order to attract this kind of student, who might be used to a few of the comforts of life, we might need to consider a few portable a/cs for the huts, or some staff with large grapeleaf fans. </p>
<p>And lastly, since the passing of Lester Maddox, (who really DID work as a greeter at the Walmart near his house many years after retirement,) I am glad to see that the former Ga. political machine has continued to find employment in the service industry. Keeps those unemployment figures down.</p>
<p>I love the idea of equity admission slots to be sold on ebay. I’m no bean-counter, but looks like easy $ to me! </p>
<p>As for health services, perhaps Mini’s D1 could act as ethnobotany consultant for establishing a botanical clinic on campus. Maybe give Dr. 90210 an adjunct professorship to attract a more diverse student body,too. I can see the sign over the Health Services Yurt- “We CAN be Everything for Everyone.”</p>
<p>If we’re going to have yurts, we need to rope in Sac’s S who studied Tuva throat singing. Sac, unfortunately, has not been checking this thread.
For the Southeast Asian longhouses, can we have a gamelan ensemble? For the treehouses, anyone who can do birdcalls will be automatically admitted.</p>
<p>marite, I watched a PBS (maybe National Geographic but I think not) program on throat-singing and was enthralled. I’ve never heard anything like it. Except maybe the Ramones.</p>
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Ouch, ouch, ouch. You are confusing Mel with his father.</p>
<p>BTW I read a wonderful short interview in the “Boldface Names” column of the New York Times in which Michael Moore and Mel Gibson praised each others’ movies. Moore said that he loved Gibson’s -that he was a practicing Catholic who had seen it twice, and thought that his own was related, but as “The Compassion of the Christ,” and Gibson said he loved Moore’s, and that he too was opposed to the war and the administration’s policies.</p>
<p>Anyhoo, I say we give honorary degrees to people who NEVER get them, but should - all those unsung heroes who do small things like adopt otherwise unadoptable kids, etc. They could stop being unsung because we could have the throat-singers sing for them :)</p>
<p>Marite and Curmudgeon, I liked throat singing too. We could have the world’s first throat singing choir, hold a contest for which we would be the only contestant and declare our choir the world’s best</p>
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Happy that the housing discussion has re-surfaced in time for my suggestion: painted vintage Volkswagon buses.<br>
I think we are converging on a Rice/Oxford/Cambridge “houses” concept with different ethos’ for each: yurt,treehouse, painted VW buses, etc. etc. I’ll leave it to another to write up the View Book descriptions of all the options.</p>
<p>jmmom, HAhahahahahahahah. Oh,boy.Do I have a visual. Confidentialia College is starting to bear a strange resemblance to Taos,N.M. in the seventies. Anymore of this and we might need to channel Ken Kesey to write the Viewbook for us .</p>
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That’s just got to be worth selectivity points. WooHoo! We’re on our way!</p>
<p>P.S. There exists on this board folks who are very good “compilers” of data points. I’ve seen you do it. Anybody got the time to try to shake out a “work in progress” report on Confidentialia College? (The name is starting to grow on me-a little.</p>
<p>Needing a little comic relief after reading too many sad rejection stories, I will start:</p>
<p>College name: Confidentialia College
Motto: It’s all about fit
Latinate motto: Aptus est alia
School colors: Emerald and blue
School mascot: sluggbugg
Housing options: yurt, Souteast Asian longhouse, treehouse, painted vintage VW bus,suites w private bath,underground dorm
Sports: co-ed varsity skateboarding, poker, ping-pong, Quidditch
Departments: art history, musical theater, Latin, personal finance, history, comparative literature, winter clothing, world travel, psychology, and most non-dead languages, sanskrit,Elvish languages, hierogglyphics, ancient Greek
Location: tbd - California?
Campus amenities: pool tables, massages, and Antabuse for those under 21. Dorm rooms: allow all pets except reptiles, amphibians and elephants. Special dog and cat-themed dorms as well as pet-neutral.Bicycles can be rented.
The campus is fully wired, and all laptops have CC as a home page
Campus hub: pent (5-sided quad) w statue of President Curmudgeon wearing topsiders, 10-gallon hat, holding
President:Curmudgeon
Director of: Food Services - mootmom; Campus Store - jmmom</p>
<p>*to be continued<a href=“by%20anyone”>/i</a></p>
<p>I think an underground dorm should be considered. Not much in the way of heating or cooling costs; wild parties won’t disturb the neighbors; my student, at least, is nocturnal, so the dark won’t be a problem and they won’t have to worry about black-out curtains to sleep late in the mornings.</p>
<p>College name: Confidentialia College
Motto: It’s all about fit
Latinate motto: Aptus est alia(“Aptare omnia est” any latin scholars?)
**Emblem or logo<a href=“work%20in%20progress”>/b</a>: background of CC blue; a pair of blood shot eyes above a computer mouse draped across a pair of topsiders
School colors: Emerald and blue
School mascot: sluggbugg
Housing options: yurt, Souteast Asian longhouse, treehouse, painted vintage VW bus,suites w private bath,underground dorm
Sports: co-ed varsity skateboarding, poker, ping-pong, Quidditch
Departments: art history, musical theater, Latin, personal finance, history, comparative literature, winter clothing, world travel, psychology, and most non-dead languages, sanskrit,Elvish culture, hierogglyphics, ancient Greek
Location: tbd - California?
Campus amenities: pool tables, massages, and Antabuse for those under 21. Dorm rooms: allow all pets except reptiles, amphibians and elephants. Special dog and cat-themed dorms as well as pet-neutral.Bicycles can be rented.
The campus is fully wired, and all laptops have CC as a home page
Campus hub: pent (5-sided quad) w statue of President Curmudgeon wearing topsiders, 10-gallon hat, holding
President:Curmudgeon
Director of: Food Services - mootmom; Campus Store - jmmom; enology - cangel; Music - SBmom; radio station-schoolmarm
Faculty:Assistant Professor of Bodhran & Quality Control Consultant for the Rathskellar-BassDad
Fight song: Brave Buggs will never fail - see post #62
School newspaper: The Daily Curmudgeon
Slogan:ILLEGITIMI NON CARBORUNDUM
Frat/sorority house:Phi Slugga Bugga</p>
<p>*to be continued<a href=“by%20anyone”>/i</a></p>
<p>College name: Confidentialia College
Motto: It’s all about fit
Latinate motto: Aptus est alia (“Aptare omnia est” any latin scholars?)
School colors: Emerald and blue
School mascot: sluggbugg
Housing options: yurt, Souteast Asian longhouse, treehouse, painted vintage VW bus
Emblem or logo (work in progress): background of CC blue; a pair of blood shot eyes above a computer mouse draped across a pair of topsiders
Special course offerings to attract the unusual student: Elvish and throat singing choir
Location: unsettled as yet</p>
<p>And lest we forget, there’s the “the care and covering of sleeping locations” department.</p>
<p>In what locations do we offer a year abroad? I suggest New Orleans - that was the most foreign of a country I was ever in.</p>