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http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/07/cornell-alum-rejects-gqs-charge-douchiness/40429/

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'Douche,' the amorphous catch-all of a word, rubbed Tony Manfred, a Cornell alum, the wrong way. He wrote a response to GQ on the Business Insider Lifestyle blog. "As the undisputed douchiest men's magazine in the men's magazine section of the newsstand (just kidding, Maxim takes it in a blowout)," he writes, "It's surprising that GQ doesn't have a better handle on what douchiness is." Manfred goes on to say that he "could almost accept this list if the magazine did its homework, laid out a coherent methodology, and paid a psychologist or two to lay out the parameters of douchiness."

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You're right that we didn't do our homework when we wrote our book, America's Douchiest Colleges. Unless by homework you mean seeing how many Funyons [sic] you can fit in your mouth while looking at Facebook. And, Tony, we admire your extreme seriousness when it comes to defining the term "douche." It's almost like you're too serious, like you study too hard, like you're an overachiever who is sweating organic chemistry too hard and really worried that people won't think your school is Ivy enough. It's almost like you're a Cornell douche! Anyway, our point was to have some fun with people who take the college experience a little too seriously. And then to piss everyone off with the rankings. We, in fact, know several people who went to Cornell, and they aren?t really any douchier than we are. Though after reading your sober response, we think our rankings might have accidentally been right!

Peter Littleton, Ph.D
 
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[quote='BusNative;195993;4]Then BOTH can be in top 10 because Stanford has an extraordinarily high level of douche... [/quote]

Forget about the rest of the country, Stanford isn't even the douchiest school in the Bay Area...let alone Cali.
 
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