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Ha, bblfraser – my turn to spray tea out my nostrils! It wasn’t the fancy kind though, just plain old southern Luzianne’s. :p</p>
<p>Thought you would like that you tube jym. Watch it whenever you need a laugh, just for *****s and giggles! That was part of an invitation to a crew party for my D, “Dress like a prep” was the title. I’ll e-mail you the pics!</p>
<p>geek_mom, you need to borrow my sleeve, after your tea explosion?</p>
<p>I can’t believe this thread is still going strong – and not closed! And I can’t believe I missed out on Jack and Diet Coke AND margaritas with bblfraser. Harumph. Guess I’ll have some wine – after sniffing the screw cap, that is.</p>
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<p>Snob.</p>
<p>(Can I hob nob with you? Please???)</p>
<p>Hmm, since I don’t know a sperry from a sebago, please, do tell jym, which is better. My D has only worn sperry’s, but could they be holding her back from higher social standing? If so, flog me for being a bad bad mommy!</p>
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I think I put the over-under on mod closing at 500 early on thinking that by this time we’d be there. I guess we are running out of steam…</p>
<p>Of course if those spam posters keep at it, maybe the mods will kill this sooner…</p>
<p>No eating Spam while following this topic. It would be soooooo below the OP.</p>
<p>I just watched the tea partay video. I can see the appeal. But then I watched the green tea partay video. Boyz in the Hillz all the way. :D</p>
<p>The best news is that all the posting on this thread is really upping our post counts. What do I become after a senior member???</p>
<p>I heard senior members are allowed to look at the feet of people like the OP. You guys get such a bonus 
I’d kill for that opportunity.</p>
<p>The OP shouldn’t allow her D to go to Stanford, because my S hasn’t met any snobs there at all. In fact, one of his fellow students has a giant pogo stick that you can jump over cars with. If there were any afternoon tea parties on campus, I can just picture the kid on the pogo stick crashing through the window and landing on the tea pot.</p>
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owlice, your graciousness and congeniality shine through yet again – courageously offering to soil your elbow-protecting sleeve with my common tea and, well, God only knows what other lowly gunk and crud might have been on my monitor already. You humble me, dear, with your kindness. Truly you do.</p>
<p>Alas, deep down I know that I am not worthy, so I suppose I’ll just have to let the monitor air-dry. But I am touched. Truly, I am. In fact, I think most of us on this thread must be a bit touched. ;)</p>
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Ah… ever the climber!
Worthy.</p>
<p>I have not read the whole thread. I can’t believe that I only discovered it now and missed the collective hilarity and the popcorn and beer guzzling. Anyway, I’m just posting to say that if Princeton is not sufficiently la-di-dah for the OP’s DD, Harvard won’t do, either. 2/3 of the students are on financial aid. Charming the guys might be–princes, most of them aren’t. And something like 65% of the students come from public schools. Quelle horreur!
Any more popcorn?</p>
<p>I thought posting in the Cafe did not count towards our total? Just curious why they wouldn’t, since it show’s activity. I have to be active in SOME kind of way, I was going to put CC down as an EC when I go to school!</p>
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<p>The OP totally misunderstands social reality.</p>
<p>It is worthless to be a snob unless you are upper class. The OP is clearly lower class and possibly even a foreigner. So while she may be a snob, like a butler can be a snob, she and her children can’t associate as equals with Princeton students, not now, and not for many generations (maybe seven) to come.</p>
<p>Perhaps a postgraduate year at LeRosey is in order? She will have no other choice but to hobnob with all of the snobs she is surrounded with.</p>
<p>Foreigner?
I think I saw them in concert with Foghat.
Or maybe it was the J.Geils Band.
Snobs love J.Geils, after all wasn’t Faye Dunaway married to the bass player?</p>
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<p>OP, I looked up this article just for you:</p>
<p>[Wall</a> Street: Profiles in Panic | vanityfair.com](<a href=“http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/wall_street200901?printable=true¤tPage=all]Wall”>http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/2009/01/wall_street200901?printable=true¤tPage=all)</p>
<p>So at the insistance of my buddies on the 09 thread I came over her toot sweet to find out what the buzz was all about. Now, I am no mathmagician but I do think the entire thing can be summarized by the following syllogisms.</p>
<p>OP wants a snobby school for D and wonders if Pton can be the one, Kat’s smelly, jewelry challenged, wing lovin, Hooters patronizin country boy attends Pton, therefore Princeton can not be the place OP wants her D</p>
<p>OP’s D on the other hand wants MIT and is, to the sorrow and shame of her mother, down to earth. Young men at MIT are going to be making money but since it will be new money it will be less valuable money in the eyes of the OP as nouveau riche…sp…(Never did learn Italian) is not =to oldeau riche (hey I’m improving) because the newly wealthy are more likely to be gauche and (((((((((((((((shudder))))))))))))))) down to earth. Therefore, OP’s D belongs at MIT.</p>
<p>Finally, the concensus is that the OP’s quest has the equivelent effect to passing gas at this particular party. She sought advice but has instead received the soggy elbow of the hick or something. She therefore should change her goals to reflect what makes her D happy.</p>
<p>Did I get that right? It is so far past my bedtime that I can’t see straight but I also wanted to acknowledge geekmom’s spewing through dainty nostrils and give a cheer and a cheer-up because that the pinky was perky but well…other parts not so much. Plus I got the Star Wars reference too. I think our kids are made for eachother ;)</p>
<p>ek that sounds like a Day on the Green bill. Did you grow up in the SF bay area?</p>