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Iormlund

#27525
June 04, 2013, 02:35:13 PM
Word for word, apparently.

Phillip V

#27526
June 04, 2013, 04:19:25 PM
A Reluctant West Point Prince on Prom Night

"I will be forever grateful to the jilted college girl I was able to rescue the night of her prom, making me, for a time, her prince."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/booming/a-reluctant-west-point-prince-on-prom-night.html

Malthus

#27527
June 04, 2013, 04:25:12 PM
Quote from: Phillip V on June 04, 2013, 04:19:25 PM
A Reluctant West Point Prince on Prom Night

"I will be forever grateful to the jilted college girl I was able to rescue the night of her prom, making me, for a time, her prince."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/booming/a-reluctant-west-point-prince-on-prom-night.html


Article doesn't say if he got laid as part of the deal.  :hmm:
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

derspiess

#27528
June 04, 2013, 04:27:04 PM
Bleh.  Shows what happens when you're a nice guy: they dump you.
"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

Caliga

#27529
June 04, 2013, 04:32:44 PM
QuoteA few minutes later, knowing none of this, I walked out of the bathroom naked except for the tiny hotel towel wrapped around my waist, expecting to find my pals ready for a night on the town. Instead I discovered the tearful girls from Seton Hall. They rapidly made the same pitch to me before I had a chance to get into my civvies and split.

I think I would have handled this part a little bit differently than he did. :sleep:
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MadImmortalMan

#27530
June 04, 2013, 05:34:14 PM
Heh. He's grateful to her?  :P

Things sure were different back then.
"Stability is destabilizing." --Hyman Minsky

"Complacency can be a self-denying prophecy."
"We have nothing to fear but lack of fear itself." --Larry Summers

Tonitrus

#27531
June 04, 2013, 06:06:02 PM
He is friend-zone addled.  :(

garbon

#27532
June 04, 2013, 06:13:33 PM
I'm confused as to why he waited so long to tell his daughter this story.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Admiral Yi

#27533
June 04, 2013, 06:15:56 PM
Most Princeton guys I've met have in fact been dickheads.

Josquius

#27534
June 04, 2013, 08:22:27 PM
This is crazy. Looking into flights home- somehow a return is cheaper than one way.
Not just the obvious; it being cheaper than two one ways. Its cheaper than a single one way. :blink:
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garbon

#27535
June 04, 2013, 08:44:04 PM
Quote from: Tyr on June 04, 2013, 08:22:27 PM
This is crazy. Looking into flights home- somehow a return is cheaper than one way.
Not just the obvious; it being cheaper than two one ways. Its cheaper than a single one way. :blink:

So? That's very common place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_booking_ploys
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Razgovory

#27536
June 04, 2013, 09:08:00 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 04, 2013, 05:34:14 PM
Heh. He's grateful to her?  :P

Things sure were different back then.

Guy is old school military caste.  I suspect his father is general Lucian Truscott the I of WWII.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Josephus

#27537
June 04, 2013, 09:12:30 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 04, 2013, 02:09:19 PM
And slept with producers.

Or presidents in some cases.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Phillip V

#27538
June 04, 2013, 09:48:12 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on June 04, 2013, 09:08:00 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on June 04, 2013, 05:34:14 PM
Heh. He's grateful to her?  :P

Things sure were different back then.

Guy is old school military caste.  I suspect his father is general Lucian Truscott the I of WWII.
The cadet was the son of a colonel; grandson of a general and later discharged from the Army in 1970 a year after becoming an Officer because he wrote an article about rampant heroin usage among soldiers. IIRC, he went on to become a millionaire as a writer and married with three children.

Josquius

#27539
June 04, 2013, 10:03:09 PM
Quote from: garbon on June 04, 2013, 08:44:04 PM
Quote from: Tyr on June 04, 2013, 08:22:27 PM
This is crazy. Looking into flights home- somehow a return is cheaper than one way.
Not just the obvious; it being cheaper than two one ways. Its cheaper than a single one way. :blink:

So? That's very common place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_booking_ploys
Makes it all the crazier.
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