Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 16:30:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Kevin W. Cooney" (cooney+@CMU.EDU)
To: The Dan & Eric Dlist (danampersanderic+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Subject: 10 things learned over graduation weekend
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My brother looks really silly when he dances. If I look that bad,
somebody please kill me. Boy am I glad I learned how to dance with a
bunch of queer folk. I'm even more happy that my brother is usually a
couple hundred miles away, so won't be embarasssing me at any future
parties. The obvious solution, of course, would have been for me to
keep drinking until I didn't care. Or simply tell him "go away".
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My brother has brought making bad puns to an artform. No, I don't
mean clever puns that make you groan, I mean bad puns that make you
wonder if the people he knows are encouraging him by laughing when
they really are laughing in the hopes that he'll go away.
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If you haven't guessed by now, my brother really annoyes me. I was
surprised that he even annoyed me more than my parental units. Then
again, he was with me more.
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My whole family is pretty clueless about the whole earring thing.
At first I thought they weren't noticing it (some people took some
time), but I decided to wear a big dangly one during commencement, and
they still didn't say a thing. I would have brought it up, but we
seemed to be making progress at actually talking *to* one another,
instead of talking *at* one another.
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Raj Reddy gives really lousy talks
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SCS is doofy enough to have people talk about the "information
superhighway" at both the honors ceremony and the ceremony where they
hand out diplomas.
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My parent's idea of a good place to go for a graduation dinner is
"Howard Johnsons" (I convinced them to go to the Cheese Cellar)
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My entire family don't take directions very well. "No, I said take
a right, then an immediate left!". "No, left. LEFT! ...I should
have said 'your other left'". "I _know_ we're going downtown".
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The fact that you aren't interested in a subject, and stating so,
has no effect on whether or not my family will actually keep
discussing said subject.
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Amazingly enough ,"shut up" works very well. I should have tried
this _years_ ago.
-Kevin
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