<p>To-ga! To-ga! To-ga!</p>
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<p>I think that was a very well done parody of sorority girls. If you don’t like sororities, I’d think you’d like the way that scene portrays them.</p>
<p>My favorite line is Bluto’s:
A lot of wisdom there - no wonder he wound up in the Senate.</p>
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<p>S’s school has a Greek system and (IMO) more of an easily accessible social life than D’s school, which is single-sex and requires effort to find members of the opposite sex. Not that anyone needs any pity, but it’s a disadvantage of D’s school that she can’t just walk a few blocks and find a party on Saturday night. Really. Life doesn’t have to be so serious. I was the queen of serious, and still found time to go to frat parties and just be a young adult. And frankly if I had to do it over again, I’d go to MORE frat parties and things of that nature, instead of settling down so young and always being uber-focused on schoolwork.</p>
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<p>It’s not real. Neither is Reese Witherspoon in Legally Blonde. They are … comedies. It’s ok to laugh every once in a while.</p>
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<p>In the case of AH, it was supposed to be a fictional portrayal of college fraternity/sorority life during the early 1960’s.</p>
<p>I would not push my kid to go to any school that she personally does not want to go. However, my D. is very grounded and reasonable. I have met others who are not.</p>
<p>Yes, cobrat, we’re aware.</p>
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<p>That was meant mainly for Redpoint. Her stated dislike for that part of the movie reminded me of several Oberlin classmates who disliked certain historically themed movies because they didn’t like the way it actually portrayed the past as it actually was…not how they wished it to be. </p>
<p>Something which didn’t make sense to me as someone who’d rather be aware of the negatives of past history so we know not to repeat it.</p>
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<p>I (and my friends) was the antithesis of you, both of us being at NU. Current neighbor friends from NU (that I did not know while in school) are shocked by my stories. They had no idea that such debauchery existed there.</p>
<p>I found a major that I liked but it also happened to be incredibly easy. No coincidence there.
I never missed any of our frat parties.
I never missed a single football or basketball game in my 4 years.
I helped bring many a keg into the football stadium for game day.
I never missed a Waa-Mu show.
'Dillo Day??? I can’t really remember them, but I think they were fun.
Swimming in Lake Michigan in December.
Evenings out on the rocks with girls and beer.</p>
<p>You know, I’m not dense, and I know the movie is a comedy.I’m not a prude or conservative. I saw the movie when it came out in 1978. I was 14. It bugged me at the time that boys my age thought girls when they got together had naked pillow parties. Yeah, young ignorant boys can take it that way. I’m not making a federal case about it, but don’t disparage me for being sensitive to the sexism in that scene. Otherwise I enjoyed the movie.</p>
<p>Cobrat: "That was meant mainly for Redpoint. Her stated dislike for that part of the movie reminded me of several Oberlin classmates who disliked certain historically themed movies because they didn’t like the way it actually portrayed the past as it actually was…not how they wished it to be. "
Please, I’m not an idiot, and I’m not being like that. More to the point, The scene did not accurately portray the past, and I am not deluded.</p>
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<p>LOL, a common male fantasy, huh?</p>
<p>I did have a suite mate who apparently came from a home where they all frequently walked around buck naked, or so she said. She would come in my room right out of the shower with a towel on her head and nothing else, talking away at me. I finally put a stop to it, saying, “Sorry, but I can’t take a thing you’re saying seriously right now. Put on a towel at least!” It was strange.</p>
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<p>Slight correction: it was “…wif yo’ dates” not “…with yo’ dates.”</p>
<p>A subtle but important difference.</p>
<p>AH is rated R now. Hopefully there won’t be too many 14 year olds upset by the humor.</p>
<p>It was rated R then, too. Nobody cared what we were watching. Somehow I saw The Exorcist in the theatres when I was 11.</p>
<p>11 eh? Not surprising. We were so much older then, we’re younger than that now.</p>
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<p>So was Pizzagirl one of those out on the rocks with the beer?</p>
<p>Inquiring minds want to know.</p>
<p>I’m new to posting in these threads, but annasdad, what makes you have your panties in a wad so much about pizza girl? I thought the point of these conversations is to get other’s opinions, not tear them down because of them.</p>
<p>Good insight, MomfromTN. That sometimes happens, and it’s nice when it does.</p>
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<p>There are very few colleges whose math/science classes are harder than your kid’s high school, like probably less than 10, maybe less than 5.</p>