MacLeod
09/14/02 07:53 PM
166.90.41.10
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Okay, I was having a conversation with my friends and we got to the subject of social status among high school freshmen (of which I am one). After experimenting with different analogies, including danishes, nacho cheese, and someone's cousin Walt who stuck a cat up his @$$, we finally got the right comparison. This is how I then explained it to one of the more popular (and very, very attractive) girls in my class while online (BTW, Weiss Jager is me  ):
Weiss Jager: still, illana, do you get what im saying about this social class thing?
LAMAmamaCiTa: npope
Weiss Jager: alright, lets say everyone is a jelly bean
Weiss Jager: now 'popular' people, such as yourself, kat, and chrissy, are the more common flavors that seem to clump together, but are rather plain, such as black licorice, cinnamon, or sour apple, or something like that
Weiss Jager: your average person is a watermelon jelly bean
Weiss Jager: meanwhile, the crazies and the loons, such as myself, are the hard-to-find flavors that actually arent that bad, such as peach, pear, or grapefruit
After this, another one of my friends and I expanded on the idea. You know how you get a tray of jelly beans and you only eat one flavor at a time, but you get big handfuls? Let's say you start with the cherry ones. Somehow, you'll wind up with one or two strawberry ones stuck in there, but you won't notice. That explains how some people can hang out in a group they don't really belong in, but will still pass as 'cool.' Also, we changed it so that black licorice is more the antisocial loner types.
Drugs don't kill people, pancreatic cancer kills people.
... and whoever heard of a drug that causes pancreatic cancer?
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Greyslayer
09/14/02 08:20 PM
63.12.145.32
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Don't say that my gf loves black jelly beans
Greyslayer
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MacLeod
09/14/02 08:23 PM
166.90.41.10
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Hey, so does the guy who tossed up the idea that they're the antisocial ones... maybe your girlfriend needs therapy, dude. 
Drugs don't kill people, pancreatic cancer kills people.
... and whoever heard of a drug that causes pancreatic cancer?
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realworldviews
09/15/02 02:27 AM
24.98.65.7
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Dude, that is one of the best Social analogys that I have ever heard.
Simple, easy to understand, and it works.
I will have to remember this.
Colonel Brian Davis
Gamers United
"Dreams become reality, for all who start off with a dream"
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MacLeod
09/15/02 02:56 PM
63.208.130.111
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Thank you for the kudos, but I couldn't have done it without my skeevie stoner friends.
Drugs don't kill people, pancreatic cancer kills people.
... and whoever heard of a drug that causes pancreatic cancer?
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Nightward
09/15/02 07:10 PM
132.234.251.211
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Now I'm confused 
Yea, verily. Let it be known far and wide that Nightward loathes MW: DA. Indeed, it is with the BURNING ANIMUS OF A THOUSAND SUNS that he doth rage against it with.
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SoyBigHead
09/16/02 06:30 AM
68.57.148.119
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yum yum some fresh new meat for me to eat! :-) as a senior, i welcome you to high school. and a lil bit of advice. dont piss off us big guys ;-) PS im one of the black licorice loner types combined with one of whatever crazy types; dont mess WITH ME freshmeat! hehehehe
"There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
-Mark Twain
Edited by SoyBigHead (09/16/02 06:31 AM)
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Bob_Richter
09/16/02 01:53 PM
4.35.174.250
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then gives him a "swirly"
Senior only seems big until you move beyond it...
-Bob (The Magnificent) Richter
Assertions made in this post are the humble opinion of Bob.
They are not necessarily statements of fact or decrees from God Himself, unless explicitly and seriously stated to be so.
:)
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Spartan
09/16/02 05:51 PM
172.138.14.179
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Spartan (who is a postbaccalaureate undergraduate student and weighs a good 240 pounds) thumps SoyBigHead into the ground and then admonishes him not to beat up on people younger and smaller than him. 
Spartan
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
(I refer you to what Nightward said)
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NathanKell
09/16/02 06:27 PM
24.44.238.62
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Boo-yah!
One of the most pernicious things still straggling along in our education system. 
-NathanKell, BT Space Wars
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
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MacLeod
09/16/02 07:52 PM
166.90.34.67
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Uhh... dude? I'm 6' 6", okay? Need I say more?
And I'm a 'pear.'
Drugs don't kill people, pancreatic cancer kills people.
... and whoever heard of a drug that causes pancreatic cancer?
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SoyBigHead
09/17/02 06:28 AM
68.57.148.119
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hehe...well as a member of the startling linebackers... hehe j/k im not on the team even tho i could be if i so wished in an instant...
"There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
-Mark Twain
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Spartan
09/17/02 08:02 AM
172.147.85.204
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Linebackers? HAH! I was an offensive tackle and guard. I knocked over linebackers as a matter of principle and destroyed those in the secondary for fun... when I wasn't going head to head with defensive tackles or ends, who I dominated.
Spartan
We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.
(I refer you to what Nightward said)
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