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	nekoama 2008-05-01 01:22 am UTC (link)
	I was so confused for the first five minutes of reading this because my first reaction was 'Wait, Dirt-mouth has a college?' Then I remember Superbad and that Dartmouth is an American college, no relation to the sister city of Halifax. It's very late. I need coffee. Related to wank: HAHAHA OH WOW. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	gabsy 2008-05-01 02:28 am UTC (link)
	Haha, I keep thinking the same thing every time someone mentions Dartmouth! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nekoama 2008-05-01 02:39 am UTC (link)
	It's so confusing. Like I said, I only knew about it because of Superbad, and even then for most of the movie I couldn't understand why someone would want to go to college there. It's like anytime someone's talking about London, Ontario, but they leave out the Ontario! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mary_mac 2008-05-01 01:06 pm UTC (link)
	You want to try being in that conversation while you're in London, England, with people native to London, Ontario. Makes my head spin. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	frequentmouse 2008-05-02 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	Those of us who live in Washington-the-State basically spend our entirel life in that state. Also? Knowing the overweening pride of Dartmouth-the-college, the fact that some people think of a town in NS first just makes me laugh and laugh. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mary_mac 2008-05-04 01:35 pm UTC (link)
	Why are they so proud of it anyway? I ask as someone from a university generally regarded by its students with the same air as you'd regard your more deranged aged aunts. Y'know, affection tinged with embarrassment and occasional horror... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

frequentmouse
2008-05-04 06:09 pm UTC (link)

Hell if I know. I think it's because they, of all the Ivies, are not liberals or something. I've known people who have instructed Dartmouth students, and someone who played soccer against them (where, in his words, they bring a whole new realm of meaning to the term "ball handling)") but even though I once lived in a cooperative household with three Brandeis alums, I don't know that I could name one person online or in 3D who admits to graduating from Dartmouth.

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	j_lunatic 2008-05-03 01:52 am UTC (link)
	An ex of mine is a Dartmouth man. Although that was so long ago I don't think about him in that context or any other. Also, the movie Animal House is supposed to be based on the screenwriters' experience at Dartmouth. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	major_fischer 2008-05-03 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	Even worse... Dartmouth is one of the eight Ivy League schools. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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