Nguyễn Quỳnh My
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CHúc mừng em Toàn, cuối cùng hi vọng sẽ đọc được cái gì sáng sủa hơn từ xứ town in the middle of nowhere (middletown) hehe.
Còn em nào thích vào williams đọc cái này nha'
từ John Clayton, một williams grad, viết khá funny và chị cũng thấy có phần đúng:
Quoted:
Friday, February 18, 2005
Is Greg Focker a Williams grad?
Early in the movie Meet the Fockers, a montage shows Greg wearing a Williams College T-shirt. It's a gold shirt with a purple "Williams" straight across the chest. I had one exactly like it, as a Williams student lo those many years ago. Seeing it in the movie I said "Ah!" and realized that the filmmakers were trying to claim Greg went to my alma mater.
So did he?
The personality fits: sensitive, slightly meek, easily intimidated by right-wing nutcase former CIA agents... yup, that's a Williams grad.
Secure in his intellect and degree of ambition (aced his MCATs but became a nurse instead), uncomfortable with his parents' discussion of his sexual history, thoughtful if slightly eccentric... this all works pretty well. To *never* apply to med-school seems a bit much, given the competitiveness and pressure to succeed at Williams, but let's call it close enough.
Has trouble making decisions? Yup.
Background? Judging from Focker Isle, obviously his parents could have afforded the tuition. (Though doesn't he act more like one of us financial aid students?) Williams loves kids of celebrities, so Mom being a bestselling author works. Sex therapist is a stretch, but then again it's a stretch to picture uptight Greg having a sex therapist for a Mom in the first place.
The ninth-place ribbons don't really work. Williams loves a godlike athlete as much as Jack Byrnes. But who knows, maybe he (like me) somehow slipped through the cracks.
You'd think he would have run across more people as bullish as Jack -- sadly, you'd think he would have even roomed with one -- but of course none of them would have been his potential father-in-law. So OK.
And that T-shirt: it's so plain and dull that obviously only a student would acquire one. But here's the problem: when mine wore out, about 1986, I went to Goff's and the Williams Shop to get a new one. And they'd -- hard to believe, yes -- discovered graphics! Mountains, purple cows, entertaining fonts: you could no longer get the plain old "Williams." I see that you can now again, but I could swear there was a period -- which would have to correspond with his dates -- when even Greg would have had to have a little style.
Sorry, Focker, I don't buy it.
Join the discussion at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnclaytonoutreach/
# posted by jc : 5:02 PM
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Còn em nào thích vào williams đọc cái này nha'
từ John Clayton, một williams grad, viết khá funny và chị cũng thấy có phần đúng:Quoted:
Friday, February 18, 2005
Is Greg Focker a Williams grad?
Early in the movie Meet the Fockers, a montage shows Greg wearing a Williams College T-shirt. It's a gold shirt with a purple "Williams" straight across the chest. I had one exactly like it, as a Williams student lo those many years ago. Seeing it in the movie I said "Ah!" and realized that the filmmakers were trying to claim Greg went to my alma mater.
So did he?
The personality fits: sensitive, slightly meek, easily intimidated by right-wing nutcase former CIA agents... yup, that's a Williams grad.
Secure in his intellect and degree of ambition (aced his MCATs but became a nurse instead), uncomfortable with his parents' discussion of his sexual history, thoughtful if slightly eccentric... this all works pretty well. To *never* apply to med-school seems a bit much, given the competitiveness and pressure to succeed at Williams, but let's call it close enough.
Has trouble making decisions? Yup.
Background? Judging from Focker Isle, obviously his parents could have afforded the tuition. (Though doesn't he act more like one of us financial aid students?) Williams loves kids of celebrities, so Mom being a bestselling author works. Sex therapist is a stretch, but then again it's a stretch to picture uptight Greg having a sex therapist for a Mom in the first place.
The ninth-place ribbons don't really work. Williams loves a godlike athlete as much as Jack Byrnes. But who knows, maybe he (like me) somehow slipped through the cracks.
You'd think he would have run across more people as bullish as Jack -- sadly, you'd think he would have even roomed with one -- but of course none of them would have been his potential father-in-law. So OK.
And that T-shirt: it's so plain and dull that obviously only a student would acquire one. But here's the problem: when mine wore out, about 1986, I went to Goff's and the Williams Shop to get a new one. And they'd -- hard to believe, yes -- discovered graphics! Mountains, purple cows, entertaining fonts: you could no longer get the plain old "Williams." I see that you can now again, but I could swear there was a period -- which would have to correspond with his dates -- when even Greg would have had to have a little style.
Sorry, Focker, I don't buy it.
Join the discussion at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/johnclaytonoutreach/
# posted by jc : 5:02 PM
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