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Fri 16 Mar 2007

Eight-Tab Segregators

Posted by Chris Griswold under @ Bookstore, @ Office, Awkward, CMU, Shopping, Social Divisions
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CMU Textbook Store. Mid-Afternoon.
Two 40-something women — one white, the other black — are shopping for office supplies:

White Lady: Do you have any more of these eight-tab dividers?
Clerk: No, we don’t have any more of the colored ones, but we have the plain white ones.
White Lady: No, she wouldn’t like that at all. She’d be so mad if we mixed the colored ones and white ones.
[...]
White Lady: [turns to black co-worker] No offense…

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Fri 16 Mar 2007

Your perspective changes after you draw 1200 pictures that are only slightly different.

Posted by Chris Griswold under Art Institute, Arts & Entertainment, Beliefs, Credos & Theories
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6th Floor Animation Lab, Art Institute:
Male Art Student: I need my blue pencil. I draw better with my blue pencil. It’s sexy.

— Overheard by Rotzi

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Fri 16 Mar 2007

The Fall of the House of Usher is better because of the dance moves.

Posted by Chris Griswold under Animals, Arts & Entertainment, College Kids, Dumb Guys, Education, High Culture, Intelligence, Language, Marketing, Pitt, Shopping
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Eddie’s Cafe, Litchfield Towers, Pitt Campus.
Two College Guys are waiting in the check-out line:

Guy #1: What are those birds that fucking talk?
Guy #2: Parrots?
Guy #1: No, that’s what my teacher said. [thinks] Ravens! That’s right.
Guy #2: Ravens talk? That’s like Edgar Allen Poe shit or something.
Guy #1: No, dude, they for real only say, like, one word ,though.

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Guy #2: [imitating a raven] “Aquafina!?”
Guy #1: Yeah, dude! “Aquafina!” Only I’d make mine say, “Radiator.”

— Overheard by Joshua

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