<p>All right, so I have this friend who goes to Princeton. Naturally, whenever he meets me, he spits out a new joke about Harvard to highlight the colleges’ rivalry. I want to be able to fight back! Any current or prospective Harvardian who can contribute a few jokes would be extremely appreciated!</p>
<p>I suggest you rise above it and just smile and say nothing. The insecure people who are pushing to catch up have to resort trash talk to convince themselves of their own merit. People fortunate enough to already be on top don’t have to prove anything. They can offer good manners and gracious good will to all.</p>
<p>Oh, come on! It’s not like he says, “Well, Harvard SUCKS!” It’s all in good fun, and plus, the jokes are really funny. I don’t want to get back at him; I just want to be able to have a few good responses lined up to increase the hilarity of each occasion. Like I said, he’s a very good friend of mine.</p>
<p>I dunno if this helps but a joke among Yalies is “Harvard SUCKS and Princeton DOESN’T MATTER…”</p>
<p>Not necessarily pro-Harvard but it is definitely anti-Princeton. BTW, I believe Princeton’s main rival is Dartmouth or somebody… I’d go ask them…</p>
<p>dude no, princeton is baller. The only school to make fun of is Yale, for a variety of reasons. I don’t talk **** to any of my princeton friends, and I only have one duskie going to Yale who I rarely talk to.</p>
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I lol’d .</p>
<p>These are old, but maybe you haven’t heard them.</p>
<p>How many Princeton students does it take to change a light bulb?
Two. One to mix the martinis and one to call the electrician.</p>
<p>How many Yalies does it take to change a light bulb?
None, New Haven looks better in the dark.</p>
<p>How many Harvardians does it take to change a lightbulb?
One. He (she) holds the bulb and the world revolves around him.</p>
<p>Our Harvard tour guide told this one on Yale, but it could just as well be adjusted for Pton: “People say that Harvard and Yale are rivals because their students have nothing in common, but I don’t think that’s necessarily true. After all, we all got into Yale!”</p>
<p>I usually make jabs about they’re oh-so-smarmy eating clubs (at least our final clubs are only a marginal part of campus-life), as in “mmm, yes Thaddius, we’re going to the cluhb today to play croquet and laugh at the plebians”</p>
<p>Also, you could talk about how they’re school is so fake they put falsely-weathered panes into their windows so they look old, weathered, and European. How Disneyland is that?</p>
<p>When in doubt though, location, location, location. As in, “wow, I had such a fun time in Boston the other day. We went to the free outdoor Boston Pops Concert, took in a Sox game at the TVs outside Fenway in Kenmore, and then capped it off with some amazing Italian in the North End. How’s that bustling metropolis of Princeton, New Jersey treatin ya?”</p>
<p>What a distasteful thread.</p>
<p>And it’s “their,” not “they’re.”</p>
<p>Eh, I think it’s all in good fun. OP wasn’t actually looking to insult the school, just banter a bit with a friend. Nice to see that some of us retained our sense of humor after the application process!</p>
<p>(The Princeton lightbulb joke was hilarious!)</p>
<p>A thousand apologies nell_ann</p>
<p>Oh, and on a more serious note, welcome to the boards!</p>
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<p>you can’t hi-jack a thread with your self-righteousness to correct someone on his their/they’re/there usage, that’s plain ignant.</p>
<p>Well there is the matter of the school colors…</p>
<p>^^Yes, every day is Halloween at Princeton.</p>
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<li><p>When I decided to go to Yale, and told my senior living Harvard relative (who was a big deal government official at the time), I asked him “Will you still talk to me?” He said, “Sure, I’ll still talk to you. I’ll just talk down to you. With a Harvard education one can afford to be magnanimous.”</p></li>
<li><p>The classic Princeton joke was one of Garry Trudeau’s original Yale Daily News Doonesbury cartoons (although it wasn’t called Doonesbury then). It was right after a football game where Yale had beaten Princeton after Princeton blew a last-second field goal attempt. In the first panel, the Princeton kicker (wearing a coat and tie) is a little apprehensive about entering his eating club for the first time after blowing the kick, but ultimately confident that things will be fine. In the second panel, he is greeted warmly by his coat-and-tie mates. In the third panel, while they are still surrounding him and patting him on the back, he looks toward the “camera” and says, by way of explanation, “We all prepped together.”</p></li>
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