MaxBuck
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"THE" is really an inside joke.
I'll clue you in on a story from my grad school days (late 1970s). I had an advanced calculus class (one that I never understood, to be honest, as a 700-level class in partial diffeqs) that met, as was the case with so many graduate level classes, in the evening in an obscure location. One night, which happened to be Halloween, we were sitting in on the lecture with the door open when we heard a "slap, slap, slap" that sounded a lot like clown feet. Sure enough, in a minute or two we saw a trio of people dressed impressively in Disney outfits: Minnie and Mickey Mouse, and Goofy. They silently waved their oversized white gloved paws at us as we sat transfixed. Then they "slap, slap, slapped" away down the otherwise silent hallway.
The prof stood transfixed, staring down the hallway that this Disney cavalcade traveled down. For at least two minutes, no one (including the prof) said a word.
Then he turned back to the class, and as we awaited the professor's wisdom, he said simply, deadpan, "THE Ohio State University." We all laughed at the nonsense that this snooty term conveyed, and went on with our class.
Bottom line: we don't take it seriously here in C-Bus, and neither should anyone else.
I'll clue you in on a story from my grad school days (late 1970s). I had an advanced calculus class (one that I never understood, to be honest, as a 700-level class in partial diffeqs) that met, as was the case with so many graduate level classes, in the evening in an obscure location. One night, which happened to be Halloween, we were sitting in on the lecture with the door open when we heard a "slap, slap, slap" that sounded a lot like clown feet. Sure enough, in a minute or two we saw a trio of people dressed impressively in Disney outfits: Minnie and Mickey Mouse, and Goofy. They silently waved their oversized white gloved paws at us as we sat transfixed. Then they "slap, slap, slapped" away down the otherwise silent hallway.
The prof stood transfixed, staring down the hallway that this Disney cavalcade traveled down. For at least two minutes, no one (including the prof) said a word.
Then he turned back to the class, and as we awaited the professor's wisdom, he said simply, deadpan, "THE Ohio State University." We all laughed at the nonsense that this snooty term conveyed, and went on with our class.
Bottom line: we don't take it seriously here in C-Bus, and neither should anyone else.
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