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...hired two of them—comedian Zach Galifianakis and musician Will Oldham—to pick up a camera and goof off on a farm (tractors, rapping along, silly costumes, etc.). My mom called about a week ago to say that she had confused this middle school joke of a video for the real one, and that she thought someone as successful Kanye West would have put more money into it. I guess the irony worked. Kenny Chesney "Don't Blink" Dir. Shaun Silva From the great expanses of middle America comes a guy who probably has more real...
...meetings, every Core class, info-sessions. 3) Fopasaurus Rex Upon one’s first encounter with this species, they may appear dirty and unhygienic, but this problem is frequently remedied within days of arrival in their new habitat. Traveling in packs, they sound the call of the inside joke, desperately trying to bring themselves back to a time when prerequisites were far less important than where they were going to poo next. Feeds on: Granola, Odwalla drinks. 4) Punchmeplease Poppedcollarus Immediately ready for the social scene, this species seems to know everyone, or at least everyone worth knowing...
...long time ago, when the Soviet Union was beginning to shatter, a Russian friend cracked a joke, and I doubled up laughing on a snowy street in Moscow. "I wish I could smile the way you Americans do," he said. I asked why he couldn't. He said he'd been trained by his parents never to show emotions in public. A stray smile could be misinterpreted, could mean the Gulag. I realized then that my reaction to his joke had been a political statement - a reflexive demonstration of my freedom. I thought about that when the laughter began...
There is, of course, no way to know if the ad is real. It may have been a crass joke, or an attempt to embarrass final clubs by depicting a blatantly racist, classist, and misogynist member. Yet on email lists and around dinner tables, students wondered whether or not the ad was real. And, somewhat surprisingly, a near unanimity of 14 final club members, both male and female, with whom I spoke, said that they could imagine a Harvard senior writing the post in earnest...
Even those who brushed off the post as merely a tactless joke admitted that the “joke” is based, however remotely, on reality: that some final club members are frighteningly pompous about their “ornate” clubs, and that criteria for an “ideal” date at most of these institutions would not correspond with the Harvard admissions office’s pamphlet on diversity...