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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:42 AM
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boy, do i feeL Like quite the fooL
we took this as gospeL when i went to schooL there.


Five-College folklore
A popular urban legend among Five College students holds that the characters on the Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo represent the five colleges. The legend has Daphne representing Smith College and Velma as Mount Holyoke (though the two are sometimes reversed, particularly by those who perceive Velma—and Smith—as lesbian), with Fred representing Amherst College, Shaggy as Hampshire College, and Scooby as UMass Amherst. Hanna-Barbera Productions, CBS executive Fred Silverman, and some of the show's writers have said that this story is false <3>, and that the show was actually based on the radio program I Love a Mystery and the TV sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. (Note also that Scooby-Doo premiered in 1969, before the founding of Hampshire College in 1970).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Colleges_(Massachusetts)
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:49 AM
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1. Nuh-uh!
x(

My world is shattered... :cry:
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:40 PM
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8. sorry baby girL
and no, the Library isn't sinking and shitting out bricks because the architect/engineer didn't account for the weight of the books.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:56 PM
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12. bwahahahaha! Is so!
x(

i wuv you :loveya:
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idgiehkt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:48 PM
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10. don't you mean "ruh-roh"?
:hi:
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:57 PM
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13. Doh! You are correct....
:hi:
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:50 AM
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2. Am I the only one who never liked that cartoon?
:cry:
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:52 AM
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3. No, I never liked it either!
:hi:
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:54 AM
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4. Yay! I'm not the only one!
:hi:
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Little Wing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:56 AM
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5. I knew there was a reason why I wanted to smack the smug Amherst bastards
who tried to tell me this shit.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:31 PM
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6. are you a Hampshire grad?
an old friend of mine went there. Sounded as cool as Oberlin. Does that mean you are like Shaggy? ;)

That's funny, though, I can kind of see it.


My son loves Scooby Doo. They are still as corny as ever.


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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:38 PM
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7. no sir
i graduated from umass. :hi:

aLthough i'm kinda shaggy Looking right now due to excessive hair and faciaL growth, i'm probabLy more Like scooby.

the hampshire kids were bizzare. :o
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:47 PM
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9. my dad grew up in Worcester
and a lot of my relatives still live there.

I think they are BC grads.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 12:54 PM
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11. rock on.
i Lived out in the woostah area for a few years.

now i'm back out east.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 01:31 PM
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16. woosta
that's exactly how my grandparents used to talk. They called pop "tonic", too, which we thought was hilarious.
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sniffa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 01:35 PM
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17. i used to say tonic
dungarees, bubbLah, yooey (u-turn), and god knows what eLse. my coLLege years, and first job rid me of those words... and aLmost compLeteLy kiLLed my accent.

thank god, that now i've been back on the east for about 5 years my accent is coming back strong. :bounce:
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 01:27 PM
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14. My Dad grew up in Worcester too!
:hi:
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 01:30 PM
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15. hi!
Edited on Tue Jan-09-07 01:30 PM by tigereye
it was a very long time ago, though. I think the relatives have moved to the Cape or something, for their retirement.

His parents moved to Auburn when they were older. We used to go there as kids. It was fun, but a very long drive from PA.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 01:59 PM
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18. Yeah, I loved it there
I grew up going there during the summer.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 02:04 PM
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19. I thought they represented the 5 families of the NY mafia
:shrug:
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