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March 4, 2009
Highbrow Intellectual Keith Olberdouche [Dan Collins]
appears not to have attended an Ivy after all. Tsk. For this much relief, thanks. Hahahahahahahaha! Very tangentially related: Dr. Helen interviews author who states men and women want different things. I hope this isn’t going to be insultingly heteronormative. 62 Comments ::: Post a comment »RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI: http://proteinwisdom.com/wp-trackback.php?p=14460 Leave a commentIf you want to leave a feedback to this post or to some other user´s comment, simply fill out the form below. |
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Comment by Alec Leamas on 3/4 @ 10:30 pm #
I went to Yartmouth, which, if you say it fast and with a certain inflection, sounds like “Dartmouth.”
Comment by SarahW on 3/4 @ 10:52 pm #
I told you today was some sort of freak Schadenfreude magnet!
Comment by SarahW on 3/4 @ 10:52 pm #
Only hey, I don’t feel guilty about this one. HAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!
Comment by SarahW on 3/4 @ 10:53 pm #
And of course I attended William and Marianne.
Comment by SarahW on 3/4 @ 10:55 pm #
They were fairly complacent about the vaccuming but the dry cleaning…my goodness you’d never hear the end of it if you were late picking it up.
Comment by Abe Froman on 3/4 @ 11:14 pm #
It’s especially funny because even the Ivy part of Cornell that he tried to cloak himself in has none of the snob appeal of the truly elite schools.
Comment by Alec Leamas on 3/4 @ 11:14 pm #
Dan has all of the bearing of a proud Stamford man. Go Cardinals!
Comment by Sdferr on 3/4 @ 11:16 pm #
Pudding I’ll bet. He says men want pudding. And women want popsicles?
Comment by maggie katzen on 3/4 @ 11:18 pm #
where does that leave pudding-pops, Sdferr?
Comment by Sdferr on 3/4 @ 11:19 pm #
Rupaul?
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/4 @ 11:21 pm #
That makes Italian ice kind of iffy, too. NTTAWWT.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/4 @ 11:24 pm #
How’re your new 88’s working out Maggie? Having fun I’ll bet! Are you working on anything new and interesting? Or what, say.
Comment by maggie katzen on 3/4 @ 11:33 pm #
good, good. I’ve mostly been just reading through a few volumes of the old International Library of Piano Music. coming across things I worked on ages ago. also toying with learning some Bach oratorio things. Sweeney Todd rehearsals start in earnest this weekend, so I’m not getting too involved in anything in particular at the moment.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/4 @ 11:42 pm #
Cheers withal, maggie, there’s fun to be had in re-discovery too. I picked up JSB Italian Concerto for the first time in years today (and I can guarantee it sounded nothing like this), but fun anyhow.
Comment by phil on 3/4 @ 11:52 pm #
So keith olbermann is a liar and a douchebag?
In other news the sun rose today and if you’re up early enough the odds are pretty good it’s coming up tomorrow too.
Comment by dicentra on 3/5 @ 12:17 am #
Trouble is, the Ag part of Cornell contributes more to mankind in the way of practical knowledge and stuff than the Ivy part. While attending the Ivy part, I rented a room in the home of a researcher in the Ag part, and he was part of a team that developed a virus that targeted a particular species of worm and kilt it without it harming other organisms.
Which is far more useful to mankind than my ABD in Romance Studies, yo.
Comment by dicentra on 3/5 @ 12:19 am #
It’s especially funny because even the Ivy part of Cornell that he tried to cloak himself in has none of the snob appeal of the truly elite schools.
But there are plenty of opportunities to indulge in all of the moronic narcissism that Ivy undergrads tend to indulge in, and you can still pick up on all of the stuff that white people like and develop the affectations to a T.
Comment by Joe on 3/5 @ 2:19 am #
Can Olberman give himself the worst person in the world award?
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Comment by Timstigator on 3/5 @ 7:49 am #
I went to Bowling and Green. So, there.
Comment by McGehee on 3/5 @ 8:22 am #
Okay, I confess: I didn’t go to Yale. I went to Kwikset.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 3/5 @ 8:28 am #
When, Timstigator? I, too, went to Blowing on the Green. Early 90’s.
Comment by Obstreperous Infidel on 3/5 @ 8:28 am #
Oh yeah! Bowling Green was the Ohio State of the Northwest Ohio!
Comment by Techie on 3/5 @ 9:02 am #
Q: What’s the best school for Pirates in the world?
A: Arrrrvard.
Comment by Matt on 3/5 @ 9:06 am #
My aunt went to her grave believing I went to Stanford rather than Samford. I probably corrected her 20 times before I gave up. Every Christmas, she’d ask me how I liked California.
God Techie. My eyes my eyes !
Comment by BJTexs on 3/5 @ 9:12 am #
That’s solid gold snark, right there. And I attended M.I.T.E.
Comment by Joe on 3/5 @ 9:23 am #
I went to the school of hard fucking knocks!
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/5 @ 11:56 am #
WTF? Cornell is an Ivy League school. I have no idea what Coulter is on about; any college at Cornell University is also Ivy League. It’s like saying: oh, Cornell’s German department is not quite up to snuff, so it’s not Ivy League.
I don’t think it works that way. Oh, by the way: rate of acceptance for the ag school is about one in five, which Coulter could have very easily determined.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/5 @ 12:01 pm #
I also object to Coulter’s real Cornell only being the college of arts and sciences. Cornell has a very highly respected engineering school.
Sometimes I think she could only be this much of a fucking idiot on purpose.
Comment by LTC John on 3/5 @ 12:04 pm #
Slart,
So Olberman should be boasting of his superior, Ivy League education?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/5 @ 12:04 pm #
Not that wikipedia is the end-all, but this is what it says:
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/5 @ 12:06 pm #
I wouldn’t. But I’m absolutely not an Olbermann fan, and I really couldn’t be paying any less attention to him.
But it’s simply not the case that he didn’t go to an Ivy League school.
Comment by LTC John on 3/5 @ 12:11 pm #
I don’t really watch him, nor does he (or Coulter) really ever impact upon my thoughts one way or the other. I just took it that a blowhard who is always beating his chest about his superior education was revealed to be less than what he boasted of… is it some sort of “he should be fired for padding his resume” thing. Nah. Is it a “So, Mr. Ag school, tell us how your collegate experience makes you intellectually superior to us all again?” thing – probably.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/5 @ 12:15 pm #
Frankly, I don’t think Coulter actually made much of a dent in the Ivy League education thing. Given, you know, that she was wrong about that.
Comment by Sdferr on 3/5 @ 12:16 pm #
I’d bet sight unseen that the world famous program in ornithology at Cornell is organized into that Ag and Life Sciences school in one way or another.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/5 @ 12:19 pm #
I’m guessing Olbermann was a Communications major. The ag college is where to go (read: the only place to go) for that major. The college of arts and sciences doesn’t offer it, nor does it offer anything called “journalism”.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/5 @ 12:20 pm #
…although C of A&S does offer a spiffy Dendrochronology major.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/5 @ 12:20 pm #
linky
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/5 @ 12:23 pm #
Also, dandy degrees in Dance, Gender studies and Inequality studies.
Comment by Silver Whistle on 3/5 @ 12:32 pm #
The whole question of university rank is quite muddied – the THES QS World Ratings aren’t big on straight science/engineering schools. I’m really surprised to see Imperial College below Oxford & Cambridge.
Comment by happyfeet on 3/5 @ 1:47 pm #
Journalists lie.
Comment by LTC John on 3/5 @ 2:23 pm #
“Gender studies and Inequality studies”
Huh?! What in the name of Zeus are you supposed to do with one of those?
Comment by Sdferr on 3/5 @ 3:31 pm #
They’re kinda like Amoeba LTC John, the teaching practitioners and students just keep making more teaching practitioners and students, splitting in two, then four, eight, sixteen and so on…
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/5 @ 4:08 pm #
Slart, like the light-colonel I don’t really pay much attention to either Coulter or Olberman, however I do like the puncturing of the vanity of a pompous blowhard thing. He set himself up to be snarked at, she just took advantage of the situation.
Note: I went to Michigan State, so I have nothing to brag about but what I have actually done.
Comment by lee on 3/5 @ 5:03 pm #
Eh, I didn’t go to any college, and I’m not impressed by anyone solely because they did.
I mean, Obama graduated Harvard, and the man ain’t got the sense of a trout.
His success has little to do with his degree, I might add.
I know you can get a degree in the Beatles, but how about one in “Black Like Me“?
Comment by B Moe on 3/5 @ 6:45 pm #
Huh?! What in the name of Zeus are you supposed to do with one of those?
Organize communities.
Comment by Mikey NTH on 3/5 @ 7:11 pm #
In Re: Just a random thought.
Alinsky’s rules work so long as you are perceived as the little guy taking on the big guy. As soon as you seem to be the bully, the narrative(tm) changes.
You can egg the CEO all you want – as soon as you surround his kids at a bus stop and make them cry, you are done. And the President is the ultra Big Dog. He attacking a radio host makes the host the little guy – very bad narrative being created.
Comment by Cam Winston on 3/6 @ 8:10 am #
Slart,
Someone posted this at another place & it sums it up pretty well: to me, this seems no different than say the University of California System. I am sure all of the degrees say “University of California” on the top, but lets get serious, a UC-Berkley degree is a lot better than one from UC-Santa Cruz.
She busted him, but good. Now, whenever he mentions his academic pedigree, a lot of people will be thinking “oh yeah, the ag school”. NTTAWWT.
Comment by Sticky B on 3/6 @ 8:36 am #
My college had about as much ivy on it’s walls as your local neighborhood McDonalds. Come to think of it, my degree would probably be on the dollar menu. I should’ve had better guidance.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/6 @ 10:13 am #
That would be an excellent point if this school were in a different town, or even off the main campus. The college of agriculture is, though, smack dab in Cornell’s main campus.
No, this is a little stupid snootiness from one part of campus to the other. Roberts Hall, the building the ag school is housed in, is at 42 degrees 26 minutes 54.5 seconds North latitude, 76 degrees 28 minutes 46 seconds West longitude. The building that you send your application information in the school of arts is about 1100 feet west-northwest of Roberts Hall. Both buildings are in the Central Campus, which is composed of the Arts Quad, the Ag Quad, Engineering Quad and Athletics.
Comment by Dan Collins on 3/6 @ 10:17 am #
Yeah, slart, but one part of campus gave us Olbermann.
Comment by GunPlumber on 3/6 @ 10:46 am #
As the recipient of a mere Bachelor’s degree in a vague & uncompetitive curriculum (and, let’s see your GPA, Keith!), and with little tangible accomplishments to show for his life’s work, Olbermann’s arrogance is both unwarranted and disgusting.
What were his SAT scores? Just how competitive was the place he received as a freshman?
Slart, you pulled the trigger too fast on this one. I can google-earth Manhattan and show you homeless poverty and billionaire wealth a mere 1100 feet apart too. Or, perhaps more appropriately, let’s remember just how much of Keith Olbermann’s DNA is shared with Adolf Hitler.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/6 @ 10:56 am #
How so? Just because you say so? Or is the Ag School’s Communications degree objectively just not up to the Ivy League standards of the Arts School’s degree in Inequality Studies?
Best supporting argument to date goes to Dan. Well, I know a few MIT grads that are jackasses.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/6 @ 11:02 am #
I’m not saying Olbermann’s a brainiac, or even that I like the guy. Neither of those is true. What I am saying is that Coulter has committed yet another (either deliberately or through sheer sloppiness) error of the category I think of as “well, it could be true”.
What is in fact the case is that Cornell University is an Ivy League school, and that the college of Agriculture and Life Sciences is in fact part of Cornell University, and does therefore belong to an Ivy League school.
If Coulter had only argued that yes, Olbermann did attend an Ivy League school, but his education didn’t rise to what she considers Ivy League standards, I’d not argue at all.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/6 @ 11:05 am #
I mean, the Ivy League gave us such monsters as Atrios and George W. Bush; I’d guess that alone would discount the crucial importance of an Ivy League education.
Comment by GunPlumber on 3/6 @ 12:44 pm #
Me: Slart, you pulled the trigger too fast on this one.
Slart: How so? Just because you say so?
Whoa there, Slart. YOU are the one who has, in essence, claimed that this Kornell Ag Kollege is every bit as presigious and competitive as the Ivy Cornell. You showed no proof, just your opinion. (If the admission standards and academic rankings are the same, I am sure you will be able to show us all that is true. The fact that you didn’t bother to provide any facts or documentation, well, that’s not MY problem now is it?)
But when I point out that your clever-yet-superficial proximity argument is not proof of anything, you act as if I am the one making baseless claims. Wrong. You are the person doing that.
And: “I’m not saying Olbermann’s a brainiac, or even that I like the guy. Neither of those is true.” and “What is in fact the case is that Cornell University is an Ivy League school, and that the college of Agriculture and Life Sciences is in fact part of Cornell University, and does therefore belong to an Ivy League school.”
Oh really? You might as well cancel your gym membership. All of this water you’re carrying for Olbermann will get you in shape fast.
Give it up. You agree with Olbermann and his views. Stop pretending that you don’t.
Comment by GunPlumber on 3/6 @ 1:01 pm #
Even Olbermann himself is backtracking:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#29539156
You’re busted, Slart.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/6 @ 3:19 pm #
Oops. You need to reread the thread, man. All of it. Your statement is completely, factually incorrect.
Oh, but you are. Cornell is an Ivy League school. The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is part of Cornell University, and located on campus. What could your claim possibly be, given that those things are true.
You’re living in a fantasy world, GunPlumber. It’s got no relationship to the world the rest of us live in, though.
I listened, and heard no backtracking. Just how much of Olberdouchebag do I have to suffer through to hear this alleged backtracking?
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/6 @ 3:26 pm #
Ah. This is backtracking?
Interesting. I’m wondering what drugs you’re taking, and how I can get some.
Comment by Slartibartfast on 3/6 @ 3:55 pm #
Coulter:
Cornell School of Engineering:
Oh, fuck. That can’t be right, can it? You mean the College of Engineering is also Ivy League? That would mean that Coulter is full of shit, wouldn’t it?
Comment by BJTexs on 3/6 @ 4:01 pm #
GunPlumber: Give it up. Slart is not in any way a “water carrier” for Olberdouche” and Coulter’s snark, while often sharp, falls flat on this one.
time to move on…
Comment by TexasBud on 3/21 @ 10:15 am #
Bowling Green State University…Beer guzzlin’ champs.